“Calories in, calories out” has translated into a 95% dieting failure rate. This overly simplistic equation assumes your body is a machine. And the only “input” it registers is a calorie. In reality, your body is an intelligent ecosystem, responding and recalibrating to environmental “inputs” ...
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The Big Fat Truth with The Biggest Loser’s Executive Producer, JD Roth, Episode 30
Download the transcript (PDF) Award-winning producer JD Roth has built a television empire, creating some of the industry’s most successful and compelling entertainment programming. A reality-TV pioneer, Roth co-founded production company 3 Ball Productions in 2001, virtually inventing and ...
How Loneliness Triggers Overeating, Episode 18
Download the transcript (PDF) The most broadly accepted definition of loneliness is the distress that results from discrepancies between ideal and perceived social relationships. What we perceive as causing loneliness isn’t necessarily about social interactions at all. It’s our interpretations of ...
Is worrying about your weight self-involved?
I work with clients who send me articles about quinoa alternatives because of the social and economic challenges created by quinoa’s current popularity. They work to even the gap for women and minorities in the tech sector. They’re relentlessly dedicated to changing education. They’re aware and ...
Jennifer Cassetta from ABC’s My Diet Is Better Than Yours, Episode 15
Download the transcript (PDF) Ali and Juliet go behind the scenes of ABC’s My Diet Is Better Than Yours with trainer Jennifer Cassetta. We discuss the different diets on the show and the break-up with her client, as well as why you should reconsider martial arts as a work-out. Jennifer ...
Do I Need Weight Watchers, a Health Coach or Trainer, Episode 14
Download the transcript (PDF) How do you know where to turn when you want to achieve a health goal? There are plenty of so- called “expert” trainers and a gazillion “perfect” diets you can try, but it’s important to ask yourself the right questions to find out what it is that YOU need and learn ...
How to Exercise for Your Body Type, Episode 6
Download the transcript (PDF) Did you know there’s 3 different body types and each responds to different types of exercise? Ali interviews Juliet on the three body types, what kind of exercise routine they each thrive on and the #1 most important factor for all of us when it comes to exercise ...
Sunscreen, Vitamin D and what should I believe?
Anytime you are faced with a health choice, making sure you are asking the right question is equally as important as the answer. When it comes to sunscreen versus going au naturale (or using something like coconut oil) because sunscreen blocks vitamin D and is loaded with chemicals, there's a ...
Maybe the most important summer detox you can do.
Thank you all so much for the outpouring of admiration for my Grandma and sharing how touched you were by my celebration and tribute to her. I cried reading each of your emails. I showed my Mom the beautiful replies and she cried too. Each response was like an essential oil drop on our wounded ...
The difference between nutrition experts and weight loss programs (Part 2).
On Tuesday, I shared the first two of five questions I suggested you use when evaluating the type of nutritional guidance to seek. Today I’m offering three more. Truce with Food answers all five of these questions and more. I created it, because it is what I wish had been available when I finally ...