You need simple measures to live by. — End the searching and scrolling. It’s just another form of consumption. One of the first things I did when I quit dieting was to unfollow and unsubscribe from all the apps, diets, coaches, and workout accounts I’d been subscribing to. I felt an immediate sense of lightness from that decision. …

This is what I know about making your life matter. — It’s still strange to me that I’m a person who’s had cancer. Like many people, my unspoken belief about life was that it would go on and on. Cancer happens to other people. It’s a singular shock when the news becomes your own. …

How do you have sugar without bingeing, deal-making, or battling cravings? Read on. — Use these strategies to safeguard your mental and physical health. Sugar consumption is slippery. That’s by design. The modern world is filled with sugar. It’s in nearly everything and offered everywhere you turn. It’s so ubiquitous that it seems to have altered our collective palates. You might now be accustomed to having sugar in your food without knowing it.

Here are mine. I promise they have little value. — It’s nearly impossible to talk about weight loss without showing before and after photos (look, it worked!). Except, here’s the thing, I think they’re kind of bullshit. I’ve felt pressure to display mine and resisted thus far. …

How they infect us with weight anxiety, and how I found my way out. — I can barely remember a time my mother wasn’t commenting on her body so it shouldn’t have been a surprise when the dialog about mine began. Still, it was. I remember the sting like it was yesterday. I was thirteen, we were walking somewhere. She informed me now was a…

They’re The Obstacle. — So what is a diet? I like to call it living out bad ideas over and over again and expecting a permanent result. Why is that important? Well, number one, companies are marketing themselves with greater and greater frequency as a response to the anti-diet backlash as not a diet when they are absolutely and totally a diet. The problem is that most of us don’t actually know what a diet is, or if we think about weight loss, we think, well, I have to have a diet, ‘let me go do this unpleasant thing to have the result I’m looking for.’

That means you’ve got to learn to spot one if you want a lifetime healthy weight. — Diet thinking is so pervasive that it’s become the default for how we think about weight loss. That’s a problem. Diets have a miserable track record of success, cause metabolic damage, and invite shame into your self-talk. The worst offense is that they waste your time, which is another way of wasting your life. That doesn’t mean giving up on weight loss. It means you need to learn to…

I’ve gone and done it 🎧 — I’ve been thinking for a long time about creating a podcast, but there are already a bunch and I wanted to be certain of what I might say. After two years of coaching members through my program and thirteen years of living out my approach, I decided there was plenty…

The search for a simple answer is the trap. — In the first episode of my new (video and audio) podcast, I confront a question I hear all the time: What’s the one thing I need to know to lose weight? Show me the obstacle isn’t the craziest request (especially if it’s been epically frustrating), but even if you get an answer, it probably won’t help. The question is faulty. It reveals our desire to hear a simple answer…