RYW 145: How Dieting Creates Food Obsession from the Minnesota Starvation Study

Because you and I are going to talk about something which I honestly think the wellness industry, let's call it the wellness industry, doesn't really say too much about because I know from my experience, you're going to know from your experience now that every single diet that you have ever done Every plan, every reset, every Monday morning, every this time's going to be different.

It didn't just fail to fix your relationship with food.

It actually made it much worse.

And when I say worse, I mean measurably, neurologically, provably worse.

And the evidence for that has existed since 1944, over 80 years ago.

The science has been sitting there for over 80 years.

And instead of telling you that, the diet industry has simply sold you and created and repackaged another program.

So I want to talk about what they didn't tell you.

And as I've said, be prepared for some passion.

One of my biggest goals with the podcast actually, and all the free stuff that I put out into the world, is to help you.

It's to help you start seeing things from a different perspective.

Now we can't see what we can't see and we don't know what we don't know.

And sometimes we have to be challenged to take our blinkers off and to start looking at things in a very different way.

And I know for me, a long time ago, I was fully, deeply into the whole diet culture world with the plans and the programs and the everything that came with it.

And when I think about that time of my life, which lasted for about 14, 15 years in total, I still get really fucking angry because diet culture stole so much of my life.