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I'm psychotherapist Richard Nichols and this is episode 200. It's titled, To Diet or Not to Diet.

And if you're ready, we'll start the show.

Watcher, pod fans.

Looks like Summer's here for a bit.

Are you beach body ready?

I'm going to go out on a limb here and say yes, because all bodies are ready for a beach.

I mean, half marathons and space exploration aside, they're pretty much ready for anything, if we're honest.

But today's episode isn't about me getting angry at people for fat shaming some people and skinny

shaming others. There's too much of, oh, that person's too fat and oh, that person's too thin.

Ugh. I get that unhealthy extremes aren't good. It's true that being underweight is very, very dangerous, and so he's

being overweight. But whatever the secret is to becoming a healthy weight, it isn't done through

shaming each other. But as a hypnotherapist, as well as a psychotherapist, I do get more clients

than most therapists would normally get asking for the quick fix for weight loss

or asking what's the best sort of diet. So I thought I'd go through my take on dieting today.

So it'll really be all about not dieting, which kind of sounds like I'm ignoring what everybody

seems to be asking for but do hear me

out if your goal is to become healthier slimmer thinner not overweight whatever permanently

it is very rare for diets to help you to do that very rare indeed a diet implies you're doing

something temporarily just until you're the shape or weight that you want to be, and then you're going to be relieved that you can start eating those bad things again and all the weight that you lost gets put back on. I've got plenty of people over the years who described themselves as yo-yo dieters. Some started

dieting when they were like 12 years old and they're still on a diet 30 years or more later.

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