Tag: weight loss
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Weight loss is beneficial, but focusing on it is detrimental
Weight loss could greatly improve the health of many people, but focusing on losing weight often backfires. Dietitian Lucy Carey explains. “I know you keep saying that the weight isn’t what this is about but…” She was agitated, her blonde hair flicking into her eyes as she spoke. She had clearly steeled herself to ask…
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Why nobody sticks to their diet
If diets are the answer to weight loss, why does nobody stick to them? Dietitian Lucy Carey explains the diet trap. The first real diet I tried was the lemon detox diet. It is just as terrible as the name suggests. You basically consume nothing but a lemon-flavoured beverage for a week or so. No…
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What NOT to bring to Christmas dinner
Comments about what someone is eating, or their body size and shape, are sadly common over Christmas dinner, but never appropriate. “You actually want some? I didn’t think you’d eat anything so unhealthy!” “It’s so good to see you tucking in.” “Go on, have some more. You need fattening up.” These are all things that…
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Stop praising weight loss
Weight loss is a hard thing to achieve. Period. So when you see someone who’s transformed their body I understand there’s a pull there to say, “Wow, you look great, that’s amazing that you’ve lost 10 kilos!” But I think we’re dangerously missing the mark by praising weight loss. I personally know of a couple…