Losing weight has many benefits, especially with reversing many of the chronic diseases that we face, but it can also be a challenge. We are surrounded with Gyms, Health Gurus, Personal Trainers, fitness clothing and gadgets, but the single most difficult thing to accomplish, is losing weight and keeping it off for good.

In this episode, we discuss the 4 things that are really making weight loss a challenge.

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Self-monitoring in weight loss: a systematic review of the literature

 https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21185970/

Discrepancy between self-reported and actual caloric intake and exercise in obese subjects

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/1454084/

Undereating and underrecording of habitual food intake in obese men: selective underreporting of fat intake

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/10617957/

 

Using biomarker data to adjust estimates of the distribution of usual intakes for misreporting: application to energy intake in the US population

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18313427/

The prevalence of food addiction as assessed by the Yale Food Addiction Scale: a systematic review

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25338274/

Neurobiology of food addiction

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/20495452/