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The Fat Kid’s Survival Guide to Halloween Candy
The Fat Kid’s Guide to Halloween Candy Halloween gets framed as a willpower test, but the real story is mindset. When the calendar flips to late October, candy bowls multiply and old diet scripts turn up the volume: Don’t eat that, you’ll blow it. That script is the problem. It assigns moral value to food…
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The Day I Stopped Dieting and Started Choosing To Transform My Life
Stop Dieting. Start Choosing. | Jonathan Ressler Stop Dieting. Start Choosing. I walked out of the hospital stitched together by meds and luck, holding a plastic bag of orange bottles and a head full of denial. Sepsis had wrecked me, but the moment I got home I slipped back into the quiet autopilot of bingeing…
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Calories Don’t Lie — But Diet Gurus and Fitness Influencers Do
The Truth the Diet Industry Doesn’t Want You to Hear | Jonathan Ressler The Truth the Diet Industry Doesn’t Want You to Hear Stop dieting. Start choosing. The noisy churn of the diet industry thrives on confusion, identity, and false certainty. Everywhere you look—Instagram, talk shows, glossy magazines—someone’s promising the “real secret” to weight loss.…
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No Discipline or Willpower? No Problem. That’s Not What Got You Fat Anyway
The Loudest Lie in Weight Loss: Why “Try Harder” Keeps You Stuck The Loudest Lie in Weight Loss The loudest lie in weight loss is also the most seductive: try harder. That message works because it flatters our grit and fuels the illusion that success is a moral contest won by the toughest. Every ad,…
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Food Rules Were Meant to Be Broken
Food Rules Were Meant to Be Broken Diet culture loves commandments. You know the ones: Don’t eat after seven. Breakfast is mandatory. Salads are always healthy. Fat makes you fat. Save your cravings for a “cheat day.” These rules get repeated like gospel in magazines, TikToks, and weight-loss forums. They sound so clean, so certain.…