Facts do not have opinions.

Just don't let perfection be the enemy of the good.

Self-love is really about self-respect and acceptance.

Since I started doing research for and sharing on social about this topic I've gotten approximately a bajillion ads and as many comments on the topic.

So I want to make a couple of things abundantly clear.

Number one, no one is a bad person for encouraging others or wanting to lose weight themselves.

Oprah is someone I personally look up to and yet I can see that she is sucked into diet

culture and financially benefits from weight loss. Weight Watchers, W.W. Now Sequins, has jumped 23% in their subscribers with shares boosting 60% since taking on injectable medicine.

And I like Oprah.

And like many people, I believe

they are genuinely trying to help others without the realization that it is a greater harm

to health than being fat itself and a system of oppression.

Secondly, no diets have been shown to work long term.

And by that I mean body size or other metrics of health.

On a prior episode we discussed the Minnesota Starvation Diet and how healthy men began to

break down emotionally and physically during caloric deprivation.

There is significant research showing that 95 to 98 percent of those who try to lose weight

will gain it all back, most often quickly, but the rest will regain more slowly within two to five years.

And 30% of those put the weight back on plus more

than they lost, which means people are usually worse off health-wise from losing muscle mass during the weight loss process,

but only adding back fat because that's how our body knows to protect itself during starvation,

which leads me to three.

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