Dr. Gary Foster: ...what's in your head is just as important as what's on your plate

Nobody Told Me!

Business, Entrepreneurship

4.2 • 671 Ratings

🗓️ 26 January 2023

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Weight loss is the topic with our guest, clinical psychologist Dr. Gary Foster, He is an obesity researcher and behavior change expert who is the Chief Scientific Officer at Weight Watchers and the bestselling author of "The Shift: 7 Powerful Mindset Changes for Lasting Weight Loss".

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0:00.0	Welcome to Nobody Told Me.
0:11.6	I'm Laura Owens, and I'm Jan Black.
0:14.0	An estimated 45 million Americans go on a diet each year, according to the Boston Medical Center.
0:20.1	But many of those diets aren't successful.
0:22.8	That's why we're excited to talk with our guest on this episode,
0:25.4	clinical psychologist Dr. Gary Foster.
0:27.9	Dr. Foster is an obesity researcher and behavior change expert.
0:32.5	He's the chief scientific officer at Weight Watchers
0:35.1	and the best-selling author of The Shift,
0:38.2	Seven Powerful Mindset Changes for Lasting Weight Loss.
0:42.6	Dr. Foster, thank you so much for joining us.
0:45.2	My pleasure.
0:45.9	Glad to be with you.
0:46.8	Why did you decide to write this book?
0:49.8	Well, I've been helping people on their weight loss journeys for nearly 30 years and done so in a variety of different context, individual, small groups, large groups.
1:00.9	And then for the last 10 years or so, at Weight Watchers.
1:06.2	And what had occurred to me, honestly, slowly over time, was that the people who were the most successful,
1:14.2	surprisingly, weren't people who ate exactly according to plan or lost weight every week
1:21.6	or never missed their gym workout. The people who were most successful in the long term were people who had changed their
1:29.9	mindset, the way they thought about themselves and the way they thought about the journey.
1:37.4	So that was the principal reason for writing it.
1:40.4	And also, I felt that, you know, after all these years, who needs another diet book?
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