Losing It: Just Don’t Call it A Diet
Prognosis: Misconception
Bloomberg
4.1 • 838 Ratings
🗓️ 2 August 2022
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Companies like WW, formerly Weight Watchers, and Noom, which makes a popular weight-loss app, have a new pitch for would-be members: that they can lose weight with a holistic lifestyle approach instead of dieting. This new episode of podcast series “Losing It” explores why the backlash against dieting is happening, how companies are getting in on the action, and whether we're actually over dieting and losing weight.
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| 0:00.0 | Are you looking for a new podcast about stuff related to money? |
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| 0:07.1 | I'm Matt Levine. |
| 0:08.2 | And I'm Katie Greifeld. |
| 0:09.5 | And we are the hosts of Money Stuff, The Podcast. |
| 0:13.0 | Every Friday, we dive into the top stories about Wall Street, finance, and other stuff. |
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| 0:31.0 | So I really don't like the word diet. That word to me is just so negative and it's just, |
| 0:36.4 | you know, the thoughts that come with that word |
| 0:38.1 | are like deprivation, starving and just not getting to have anything good. |
| 0:44.5 | That was the voice of a YouTuber named Stephanie Rose. Stephanie posts this video almost four |
| 0:51.6 | years ago about how she lost 50 pounds in five months. And pretty early on in the |
| 0:59.1 | video, she has basically a disclaimer about her weight loss story. Stephanie goes on to say that |
| 1:07.2 | even though she lost weight, she didn't really diet. |
| 1:12.3 | I like to use the word journey because for me, this wasn't really a diet. |
| 1:16.2 | I didn't really diet. |
| 1:17.6 | This was more of a lifestyle change and a journey to become healthy overall. |
| 1:24.1 | Just saying, you know, I like the word journey. |
| 1:25.9 | The word diet is very little, very, |
| 1:28.1 | I don't like dieting. Stephanie says that to lose weight, she started eating healthier. But she still |
| 1:35.3 | didn't want to call that a diet. Even though eating healthier is part of dieting. Still, |
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