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Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson has one of the most muscular physiques of all of Hollywood. The actor reportedly measures 6'5'' in height and weighs roughly 260 pounds. To stay in peak action star shape, he trains hard, combining intense weight room sessions with cardio and core workouts.

YouTuber Isaiah Photo, known for pulling stunts like hugging 1,000 trees to plant 20,000,000 more and storming Area 51, decided to try out the Rock's workout routine for 30 days. Isaiah, to be clear, isn't a fitness YouTuber, and describes himself as having a classic "dad bod" before the challenge begins. Don't try this yourselfand if you do, make sure to work with a coach or trainer to start to make sure you're using proper form for each exercise.

The YouTuber doesn't explain exactly where he got The Rock's workout split, which changes according to the role the actor is prepping for and other factors. Isiah could've followed this leg day routine from Johnson's strength coach, Dave Rienzi or this recent arm day workout posted to Instagram, for examplebut overall, the video follows a relatively normal plan. Mondays and Thursdays are back and bicep days, where he does deadlifts, pull ups, seated cable rows, face pulls, hammer curls, and dumbbell curls.

Tuesday and Fridays focused on the chest, triceps, and shoulders with bench presses, overhead presses, incline dumbbell presses, tricep pushdowns, overhead tricep extensions, and lateral raises.

Wednesday is his leg day, where he kills his quads, hamstrings and glutes with squats, Romanian deadlifts, leg presses, leg curls, and calf raises.

In addition to working out like The Rock, Isaiah also attempted to eat like him, which meant cutting out carbs, fats, and sugars, increasing protein intake, and eating 3,500 calories daily. Directly after every workout, he drank a protein shake, with another protein bar later in the day.

Initially, Isaiah planned to only work out like The Rock for a month, but after seeing so much improvement in his physique, the YouTuber decided to continue the challenge for another month, totaling 60 days.

Isaiah noted that the first 30 days he may have killed in in the gym, but was a little sloppy with his diet, drinking on the weekends and cheating with ice cream periodically, but for days 30 to 60 he promised to be perfect with his diet.

On day 39 Isaiah said, "Not having sugar in literally anything is so hard. It's in literally everything we eat." He continued, "I'm getting so sick of tuna and hardboiled eggs, and just want to throw up at the thought of it."

Still, Isaiah got through it, and by day 48, he noticed that his workout routine and diet had became the norm, making his drastic lifestyle changes significantly easier towards the end of the challenge.

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The queen has spoken. And no we arent talking about Queen Elizabeth II. We mean the queen of all things, Beyonce. Throughout the years, Bey has become so private, only allowing her fans to know what she wants them to about her life. So anytime she gives an interview, people are waiting with baited breath and hanging on every word.

Well, Beyonce finally let a little bit of her wall down in her newest interview with Elle. Heres what we learned:

In Beyonces Netflix documentary, Homecoming, we learned about the stars very strict dieting habbits, but when answering a question about the last time that she went to a grocrey store, she revealed that she snacks just like the rest of us.

The last time I went to a supermarket, it was more like a bodega before a Madonna concert, she said. Jayand I snuck into one in Crenshaw and bought some Cuervo and Funyuns chips. Andyall know you see me at Target and I see yall trying to sneak pics.

Beyonces body has been through a lot of changes throughout her time in the spotlight. From having kids to dieting and training for huge shows, her weight is often going up and down.

If someone told me 15 years ago that my body would go through so many changes and fluctuations, and that I would feel more womanly and secure withmy curves, I would not have believed them, she told the outlet. But children and maturity have taught me to value myself beyond my physical appearance and really understand that I am more than enough no matter what stage Im at in life. Giving zero fs is the most liberating place to be.

Though the star makes it look easy, Beyonce still struggles to balance her career with being available to her kids.

I think the most stressful thing for me is balancing work and life, she said. Making sure I am present for my kidsdropping Blue off at school, taking Rumi and Sir to their activities, making time fordate nights with my husband, and being home in time to have dinner with my family. Juggling all of those roles can be stressful, but I think thats life for any working mom.

Before Beyonce became a mom, she was focused on being the best. Now, her priorities have shifted.

Success looks different to me now, she said. Havingmiscarriagestaught me that I had to mother myself before I could be a mother to someone else. Then I had Blue, and the quest for my purpose became so much deeper. I died and was reborn inmy relationship, and the quest for self became even stronger.

Being number one was no longer my priority. My true win is creating art and a legacy that will live far beyond me. Thats fulfilling.

When youre famous, you constantly have to deal with other peoples opinions about every move that you make. The negative comments do get to the music mogul every now and then, but she has a way to combat all that.

I try to remind myself that Im strong and Im built for this, she said. Thank God most of the noise bounces off of me after all of these years.

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He wasnt getting fed the quality of food he really needed for his day-to-day survival, Ms. Lee said. Then one night were sitting on the porch and I hear preaching. Dacian and I walked seven blocks until we stumbled into a huge community dinner.

Pushing her sons stroller, Ms. Lee had happened upon the Freedom Gathering, a church-affiliated dinner that serves as many as 200 people every Thursday in a small vacant lot. Clothing and free to-go lunches are offered there as well.

Seven blocks is a long way to hear someone preaching, Ms. Lee said. And I never really heard it again. It led us to that dinner, which saved us in so many ways.

From the Freedom Gathering, Ms. Lee was referred to a pair of nearby food pantries: Hungers End, which provides groceries, clothing and hygiene products to more than 500 families a month, and Our Daily Bread, which serves meals to about 250 people a day, seven days a week. They are among the 200 food banks affiliated with Feeding America, a beneficiary agency of The New York Times Neediest Cases Fund.

Our Daily Breads self-serve pantry has provided Ms. Lee with essentials like diapers as well as coffee, canned soup and peanut butter. When fresh produce or organic macaroni and cheese comes through, Ms. Lee said, volunteers often set it aside for her. In 2018, Feeding Tampa Bay, part of Feeding Americas national network, began delivering organic food to Hungers End and other pantries in the Bradenton area. Twice a month, an outdoor pantry is assembled and opened to anyone in need. Ms. Lee returned from her most recent visit to the Hungers End fresh market with organic butter, coconut milk, mangoes, brussels sprouts and raspberries.

Because she cares for Dacian full time, money is tight. The $146 she receives in food stamps each month covers just one weeks groceries; she pays for another week out of her $700 monthly Social Security check. Utilities run about $300, leaving little for Ms. Lee to save or spend on herself.

Ms. Lee knew it was imperative to remove processed foods and refined sugars from her sons diet. Once his diet improved, Dacians symptoms subsided significantly and he started sleeping through the night for the first time in his life.

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You are what you eat, this age-old saying perfectly defines-- how the food, we eat shapes our health and a reflection of our health is pretty evident on our skin! No wonder, with the growing pollution level and stress in our environment, it is nearly impossible to remain unaffected, be it in terms of health or in terms of our skin. Right from fighting dullness to acne to pimples to early aging, our skin suffers a lot and theres hardly anyway to avoid the presence of free radicals in our environment. However, as they say-- Prevention is better than cure. Hence, one can always adapt healthy measure to strengthen immunity and fight against the signs of skin issues.

Our diet plays a major role in strengthening our immunity and this further helps in improving the skin texture and give your skin that perfect radiance! We often dig a hole in our pockets just to achieve that perfect glow through several beauty treatments, and end up ignoring the natural ways of getting that flawless skin. Heres a list of foods that will not only help you achieve that brilliant radiance and a pimple-free clear skin.

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Many workplaces are sponsoring festive holiday parties this time of year, featuring a array of chips, candies, Christmas cookies and cakes.

But workers who eat this fattening fare do so at their own peril.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, which is based in Chicago, joined three other federal circuits earlier this year in a ruling that limits the protection of extremely obese workers under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA).

The ADA prohibits discrimination against employees and job applicants who have physical or mental impairments that substantially limit major life activities.

Four federal circuits now have ruled that obesity is not a qualified impairment under the ADA unless it is shown to be the result of an underlying physiological disorder or condition. No federal circuit has issued a contrary ruling.

To prove discrimination, workers must show that their obesity resulted from an underlying physiological disorder or condition, such as diabetes.

The four circuits refused to defer to the EEOCs interpretation that the ADA prohibits discrimination based on weight that is outside the normal range for an individual even if it is not the result of a physical impairment.

According to the three-judge panel for the 7th Circuit, the EEOCs analysis is flawed because it can be read to mean any employee whose weight or other physical characteristic is even slightly outside the normal range would have a physical impairment even with no underlying physiological cause. The panel said this could create an automatic impairment under the ADA for the up to 40 percent of the American adults who are overweight.

The 7th Circuit panel also rejected the American Medical Associations position that obesity is a disease that is in and of itself a physiological disorder. The panel said the ADA is an anti discrimination not a public health statute, and Congress desires as it relates to the ADA do not necessarily align with those of the medical community.

The 7th Circuit case, Richardson v. Chicago Transit Authority, involved a bus driver, Mark Richardson, whose weight rose from 350 pounds in 2005 to 566 pounds in 2009. After taking sick leave for the flu, he was found medically unfit to safely drive a bus.

According to court documents, Richardson was forced to cross-pedal, meaning that his foot was on the gas and brake at the same time, and he was unable to make hand-over-hand turns. He could not see the floor of the bus and part of his body hung off the drivers seat.

Richardson submitted medical evidence showing that he suffered from hypertension and sleep apnea. He argued these conditions were related to his obesity. However, the 7th Circuit panel said that nothing in the court record suggested these conditions caused his obesity.

After two years of inactive status, Richardson declined to work with CTA doctors to lose weight and was fired in 2011.

Court Disregards Indigent Status

The 7th Circuit in June upheld the lower courts dismissal of Richardsons lawsuit as well as the order requiring him to pay $ $2,067 in costs to the CTA. The 7th Circuit rejected Richardsons argument that he is indigent and could not afford to pay the costs.

The judges on the 7th Circuit panel were Judge Joel M. Flaum, Michael S, Kanne and Michael Y. Scudder, Jr.

The other federal appeals courts in agreement with the 7th Circuit (WI, IL, IN) are the 8th Circuit (ND, SD, NE, MN, IA, MO and AR), the 2nd Circuit (NY) and the 6th Circuit (MI, OH, KY, TN).

A recent Gallup survey found that from 2010 to 2019 an average of 28 percent of Americans in the United States weighed 200 pounds or more, an increase of about 24 percent from the prior decade. Gallup said 38 percent of Americans, on average, say they are very or somewhat overweight this decade, compared with 41% in the previous decade.

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During a talk in New York on Monday, John Foley, the chief executive of Peloton, did not laugh off the negative reaction to the fitness companys holiday commercial, a 30-second spot that drew intense criticism and caused Peloton stock to drop 9 percent in one day. Neither did he apologize or defend it. In fact, Mr. Foley did not mention it at all.

During his 40-minute appearance at a Midtown Manhattan conference hosted by the financial firm UBS, Mr. Foley discussed profitability and international expansion. The closest he got to discussing the commercial which has been derided as sexist, classist, dystopian and tone deaf was talking about the high prices of the companys equipment.

We have a fun challenge, and were going to solve it as marketers, because the reality is that it is an incredible value, and were changing lives, and were allowing people to get more fit and get more healthy and get those endorphins and be better versions of themselves and all this existential stuff that were excited about at the top of Maslows hierarchy of needs, he said, referring to the 1943 theory by the psychologist Abraham Maslow.

But we need to communicate that better, Mr. Foley continued, in what seemed a tacit acknowledgment that the commercial may have hurt the company.

After his session, he refused to answer reporters questions about the ad, saying only, It was in the news last week.

The broad strokes of the commercial, called The Gift That Gives Back, have become cringe canon. A svelte mother, played by the actress Monica Ruiz, receives a Peloton stationary bike from her husband for Christmas. She spends the next year filming herself in her luxurious home as she approaches the contraption or pedals like mad, often appearing anxious, perhaps terrified. She turns the footage into a video for her spouse and declares that she didnt realize how much this would change me.

Viewed more than seven million times on YouTube, the ad drew the wrath of social media and generated a viral parody video by the comedian Eva Victor. On Friday, Aviation American Gin, a brand owned in part by the Deadpool star Ryan Reynolds, released a response ad featuring a deadpan Ms. Ruiz as a woman who seeks the consolation of good friends and spirits after having apparently endured a crisis. Saturday Night Live made multiple references to the Peloton commercial over the weekend, with the Weekend Update co-anchor Colin Jost joking, At least they decided against using the slogan Peloton: Youd better keep it tighter than the babysitter.

The intense reaction took the company by surprise. Peloton said in a statement last week that it was disappointed in how some have misinterpreted this commercial. Sean Hunter, the actor who played Ms. Ruizs spouse, told Psychology Today that he was worried about potential repercussions to his career. Ms. Ruiz, who declined to comment, put out a statement Saturday, saying she was shocked and overwhelmed by the attention this week (especially the negative).

The advertising agency behind The Gift That Gives Back is Mekanism, a San Francisco shop that had also created campaigns for Ben & Jerrys, HBO and Uber. Mekanism did not respond to requests for comment.

The ad was the talk of the Ad Councils 66th Annual Public Service Award Dinner last week, a black-tie event known in the industry as ad prom. Many of the guests said Peloton should have done more to make sure the commercial was interpreted not as a call to lose weight but as an invitation to gain strength.

In an interview on Sunday, Mr. Reynolds said he had heard about the Peloton commercial on Tuesday, when his business partner, George Dewey, sent him a 2:34 p.m. text about the backlash. Mr. Reynolds and Mr. Dewey run Maximum Effort Productions, an entertainment and marketing company that has gained a reputation for advertising stunts, including a mock Twitter war between Mr. Reynolds and his fellow superhero-movie star Hugh Jackman.

Mr. Reynolds and Mr. Dewey decided to respond to the Peloton ad with a promotion of the gin company, knowing they had to do work quickly, before the social media furor had died down.

Ads are generally disposable pieces of content, Mr. Reynolds said. If youre going to do something like this, you have to jump on the zeitgeist-y moment as it happens.

On Wednesday morning, Mr. Reynolds and Mr. Dewey contacted Ms. Ruiz. They shot the gin commercial, called The Gift That Doesnt Give Back, for less than $100,000 in several hours on Friday and released it that night, as Mr. Reynolds was boarding a flight to Brazil. In the ad, Ms. Ruiz sits at a bar between two friends, gazing blankly ahead, as if stunned or traumatized. An awkward silence follows.

Youre safe here, one friend says.

To new beginnings, Ms. Ruiz responds, before guzzling one gin cocktail and accepting another from her concerned pal.

Mr. Reynolds said he had sympathy for Ms. Ruizs plight as collateral damage in the backlash to the Peloton commercial.

As an actor, I can certainly relate to creating a piece of content or being part of something thats not well received, and how alienating that can feel, he said. We had immense respect for any reservations she might have had. We dont want to make the situation any worse for her.

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Im done with dieting Ive had enough. I cant go on one more diet!

Youve probably said that at one point.

You start looking for an option. Then you find intuitive eating, and it sounds interesting! No more food restriction. You follow your hunger and fullness cues instead of counting calories.

You want to try intuitive eating to lose weightbecause food freedom sounds oh so appealing and exciting after years of dieting!

More and more women are turning to intuitive eating these days. Its cool to be anti-diet,andeven cooler to be anintuitive eater.Intuitive eating has been proposed as the next big diet trend in the next decade aheadand thats a big problem!

Typically,when we refer to diet trend, we refer to ways of eating toachieveweight loss. Thats what we expect,and for most of us,thatswhat we seek. We think weneedto lose weight.Notice that the keyword hereisNEED. We want to lose weight and we dont want to diet anymore so intuitive eating seems to be the perfect option.

I want to validate those weight loss desires. Those desires to modify your body to fit the thin ideal are real and constantly encouraged in a society that is laden with weight stigma and fatphobia. It makes perfect sense that you have that desire and that you think you need to lose weight.

If you find yourself asking the question, How can I practice intuitive eating and still lose weight? then this post is for you. And so, Im writing this blog post to help you understand what intuitive eating is about, how your body maintains a certain weight through your set point, why its useless to fight against this mechanism through dieting, and what you can do instead.

You will learn:

What is Intuitive Eating?

Should you try intuitive eating to lose weight?

Your set point first

Homeostasisand happiness set point theory

Identifying and manipulating your set point

Why dieting is not the answer

How to get started with Intuitive Eating

If people ask for anintuitive eating definition, this is what I usually give them: a self-care eating framework that uses your bodys internal cues of hunger, fullness, and satisfaction to guideyoureating behavior. Notice that this definition emphasizes the body attunement element ofintuitive eating, meaningthat you need to listen to your body in order to eat intuitively.

This approach to eating allows you to develop a healthy relationship with food and your body. It teaches you to trust your ability to meet your own needs, distinguish between physical and emotional hunger, and ultimately develop body wisdom.

If someone who claims to be a health professional tells you that youlllose weight with intuitive eating, run the other way! No health professional can rightly claim that Intuitive Eating leads to weight loss.Illexplain why.

Rejecting the diet mentality is thefirst principle of intuitive eating. Focusing on weight loss will only hinder your progress as an intuitive eater.

Does that sound surprising?Well, it shouldnt if you understand what eating intuitively means.

Intuitive Eating is based on interoceptive awareness or the ability to perceive physical sensations inside your body. This means,to be able to eatintuitively,you need to connect with your body and listen to your bodys messages.

In contrast, focusing on weight loss is based on external rules. It dulls your interoceptive sense and leads to body-doubt. It makes you think that something is wrong with you just because youre not losing weight as you expected. Thus, yourelikelyto think that intuitive eating doesnt work.

While its true that some people lose weight when they eat intuitively, weight loss is more of a side effect rather than the focal point of intuitive eating. Some people who eat intuitively dont lose weight, and thats okay. Intuitive eating is weight neutral and is aligned with the HealthAtEvery Size approach.(For more info on this approach, I recommend that you read theHealth At Every Size book byLinda Bacon.

Time and again,researchhasproven thatdieting for weight loss is not sustainable. Besides, itcausesmore harmthan good to your body and mind. Dietingincreases the risk of eating disorders, binge eating, weight cycling and weight stigma.

Think of your set point like a natural mechanism that your body uses to maintain a natural weight. This mechanism runs without your intervention. Its just like how your lungs manage the appropriate amount of oxygen for your body orthe way in which your heart manages your blood pressure.

Another fascinating analogy is how your brain automatically gets you steady on a bike even if its been 10 years since your last ride. It just happenswithout you having to think about it. Set point manages your weight in the same way.

In her book Health EverySize,Dr.LindaBacon describes our set point as the fat thermostat in our bodies. Your set point actsjust like a heat thermostat in a room. When set to a certain temperature,the thermostat will send a message to the heating system to activatewhen below a determined temperature.

Your hypothalamus is the region of the brain that controlsthe system in your body that regulatesyour set point. It sends messages of hunger and fullness to manage your weight. Set point will make you think of the cookies in the cupboard and will also make you say no to the pizza when youre full.

Our set point manages all the various componentsin the complex human body that create our body weight. Your set point is your ideal body weight, the body weight you manage naturally without food restriction, deprivation, and over-exercising. It is your weight between diets, the weight at which you can live anon-food or exercise-obsessed life.

The set point is the bodys internal system to maintain healthy weight. One 1970s research study showed that the average weight of a 60-year-old man was only four to five pounds more than the average 30-year-old man.That kind of weight maintenance is no accident and not the consequence of dieting either.

Dr. Bacon has this very powerful example in her book,Health at Every Size:

Just consider a 50-year-old woman who weighs about five pounds more than she did when she was 20. If she eats about 2,000 calories a day over the course of 30 years, she takes in about 22 million calories. Since five pounds of body fat stores about 17,500 calories, that means that her body was just 0.08% off in balancing energy in versus energy out. This amounts to a difference of about 50 calories per monthless than the calories in one egg! Bacon, Linda. Healthat Every Size: The Surprising Truth About Your Weight (p. 12).

Our set point can fluctuate during our lifetime. Currently,research estimatesthe fluctuation to be between 10 to 20 lbs. Set point fluctuatesso it can maintain homeostasis.

If you are ready to exploreHealthAtEvery Size,you can downloadDr. Baconsmanifesto here.

Homeostasis is the abilityofthe human body to maintain a stable environment. Itskey to our survival.The bodysmagical ability to adapt toitsenvironmentatany given condition is whatallows us tosurvive.

This ability to maintain balance is what maintainsa stable body temperature, stable blood pressure,stable level of iron, blood glucoseand yes,body weight. All of these biological systemsfocus on maintaining homeostasis,a.k.a. balance,so we can survive and thrive in our environment.

Itevengoes beyondthephysical body. Homeostasis is also what createsyour thoughts andemotions.Your mind respondsto its emotional environment as well.

The happiness set point theory is almost similar as the body weight set point theory. It suggests that our level of subjective well-being is determined primarily by heredity and by personality traits ingrained in us early in life. As a result, itremains relatively constant throughout our lives. Our level of happiness may change temporarilyin response to life events.However, italmost always returns to its baseline level.

For humans,homeostasis meanssurvival. Our bodieswill do anything to bring us back to homeostasis so we can survive, including the dreaded weight gain.

Are you at your set pointrightnow?

Thats a very good question whichunfortunatelyis not that easy to answer. How much fat protection your body requires (your set point) is the result of a complex interplay of genetics and the lifestyle choices you made today as well as in the past.

You see,at this time,we do not have a tool that will allow us to determine an individual set point. We also donthave the knowledge on how to manipulate someonesset point either.As of today, the complexity of the human body and the number of elementsinvolved in managingonesset point exceed our scientific capacity.

Soto be clear,if you see a headline claiming to have the secret trick to lower your set point, like the 21-day set point reset detox, which I just saw recently, thats 100% diet culture in action. Its a lie! Dont buy into it because its a scam. Its just another gimmick from someone who wants to make money from your despair about your body weight.

What we do know is that if we want our body to settle at a natural weight that is effortless and healthy,we must make our brain feel safe. When the brain feels safe, it will send messages to the body that its safe. Will you lose weight? We do not know. No one actually knows. But what we know is that healtharisesor is maintained in a safe physical and psychological environment.

When you go on a diet or when you exercise, you create an unsafe condition for your body.

The human body perceivesintentional weight loss as athreat. Thatsthe reasondietsdontwork. Yourbody will adapt to the starvation/deprivation periodwhile youre dieting and trying to lose weight.

Butas soon as you release the pressure of the unsafecondition(i.e. youstop dieting or over exercising), yourbody will come right back to your set point. In many cases, it willensure complete protection fromanyfurtherthreat ofweight loss.

So,what can we do? Based on all the current research that Iveread,Id like to suggest focusingoncreating a relationship of trust and respect with the innate wisdom ofyour body. Create a safe environment, both psychologically and physically, in which youand your body can thrive in, not just survive.

The bestplace to get started is to educateand understand what could be perceived by your body as unsafe specially when it comes to food and body weight.

I would encourage you to get started by listening toepisode 214 of the GoingBeyondTheFoodpodcastright up to thepartwhere Irecommenda tool to help you determine what could be impacting your set point.

Heres a free checklist and resource to help youunderstand the set point theoryand get started on your journey into a more trusting and respectful relationship with your body.

In all the years that Ive been helping womenasa clinical nutritionist, Ive found that intuitive eating is the best starting point for developing a healthy relationship with food and ones body. Ive also made a part of my life.The women Ive helped, as well as I, can attest that itspositively life-changing!

Iinvite you to start your ownintuitive eating journeyandexperience the same benefitsthat weve enjoyed from it. I have put together someresourcesthat will help you get a good head start.

First,you can downloadmyGet Started with Intuitive Eating Guidefor free. Itwill teach youa 3-step process that will help you get started with intuitive eating right away.

Also, you can listen to theintuitive eating podcast episodes. Here, I share my best tips and interview experts who give their valuable insights on eating intuitively.

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Intermittent Fasting has become a popular way to lose weight by paying attention to when you eat instead of what you eat.

Sofia Cienfuegos said she first turned to the diet last year as she was getting ready for her wedding.

"What I do is I fast until 3 p.m. and then I start eating at three and then stop at 7 p.m. and then start fasting again until next day, Cienfuegos explained.

Merely eating during a four-hour window over three months helped Cienfuegos lose 10 pounds by her wedding day.

"I got to the weight that I wanted but I do it also because I feel way better when Im fasting, she said.

Cienfuegos, a dietician, is now working with Dr. Krista Varady, a professor of nutrition at the University of Illinois Chicago who has been studying nutrition for the past 20 years.

One study Dr. Varady conducted in Chicago found intermittent fasting works for weight loss.

"People lost about 7 pounds over three months and we also saw nice decreases in blood pressure, so it basically could contribute to heart health in general, she said.

Those dieters followed time-restricted eating, one of the two main types of fasting.

They fasted for 16 hours and only ate during an eight-hour window.

Varady also wrote a book about the other type called Alternate Day Fasting, which is when you eat whatever you want one day, but then limit yourself to 500 calories the next.

"With alternate day fasting you get to get a day off dieting every other day, Varady said.

Jennifer Bruning, spokesperson for the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics says theres concern fasting leads to feasting.

"I cannot wholeheartedly recommend it, Bruning said. It can be one of the pitfalls of the diet actually, that if we get so hungry that in our next time period of eating we are indulging in very rich or fatty foods.

Varady though, says that dozens of studies have actually shown that people don't binge with alternate day fasting.

"Its good for people who arent frequent snackers," she said.

Although the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics does not recommend intermittent fasting, they advise anyone who wants to try it to focus on fruits and veggies and lean proteins, to be careful not to binge and to also take a multi-vitamin to make sure you're getting the nutrients your body needs.

In addition, those wondering about that eating window, experts say you have the flexibility to shift that window.

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As the new year looms, so do resolutions of weight loss. Dieting to lose weight is the second most popular resolution in the United States for 2019, with exercising to get into shape being the first. Even though only 64 percent stick with their resolutions after January and only 46 percent after June, every year Americans pledge to lose weight.

Diet resolutions feed into our fatphobic society, worshipping thinness and degrading fatness. In fact, data from 2010 show that Americans spent over $60 billion on dieting and diet products. Womens magazines advertise weight loss at every grocery store check-out lane and social media is littered with clean-eating accounts and weight-loss promises. Even television hosts Jenna Hager and Hoda Kotb nervously weighedthemselves live on air before starting their intermittent fasting diet. Moreover, Michigan is the only statewith a civil rights law prohibiting a workplace to fire someone because of their weight. While some cities have similar protections, the other 49 states have no state-wide laws. All of these contribute to our nations diet culture.

From intermittent fasting and the keto diet to low-fat diets, you usually have at least one friend trying something new in an attempt to lose weight. Fad diets continually cycle, brainwashing people into believing they will actually work. About 95 percent of people who lose weight from diets will regain the weight (and possibly even more) within one to five years. Additionally, there are more side effects to fad diets than temporary weight loss. Dehydration, weakness, nausea, headaches and general lack of nutrients are some of the side effects from fad diets. I suffered from these same side effects when I was actively in my eating disorder.

Unfortunately, dieting does not only affect adults. Teenagers and kids are just as subject to dieting and fatphobia. According to a study by the American Academy of Pediatrics, teenagers aged 14 to 15 who dieted moderately were five times more likely to develop an eating disorder and those who heavily restricted their diets were 18 times more likely to develop an eating disorder.This was coupled with unhealthy weight control behaviors. According to researcher Dianne Neumark-Sztainer, teenage boys and girls engage in skipping meals, smoking, vomiting, laxative use and fasting. Diet culture is an issue that affects every age and gender. And for those already eating-disordered, diet culture perpetuates eating disorders and makes a full recovery almost impossible. For me, much of my time in outpatient treatment involved coping with societal triggers and evading diet culture, especially near the holidays.

This is not to say never try to lose weight or be ashamed if you have. Everyone has different reasons to lose weight. For some, it is because of compromising health conditions where it is important to work with doctors and dietitians to create a sustaining meal plan to remain healthy. But by doing so, one can still help resist diet culture.

There are multiple ways to counteract diet culture. First, use the Health at Every Size logic and guidelines weight loss or gain is not necessarily a sign of improved health. Excluding extreme cases, people can be healthy or unhealthy at any weight. Personally, I know skinny and fat people who are healthy as well as some who are unhealthy. Weight is not the sole determining factor of health, yet society continually shames fat people even though being extremely underweight is ultimately more dangerous than the counterpart.

Furthermore, through fad diets and fatphobia, our culture glorifieseating disorders for fat people, while showing concern for eating disorders in thin people. Society degrades fat people while putting thin (and emaciated) people on pedestals. Therefore, equal access to care is necessary. But equal access cannot happen until society reframes their thinking around fat people. It is important to reflect on your own weight biases and actions.

Second, acknowledge your thin privilege, if applicable, and use it to help resist diet culture. Though a newly popular phrase, thin privilege has implications everywhere, especially in seating. Knowing you are able to comfortably sit in movie theaters, doctors offices, planes and restaurants means you have thin privilege. This is not a bad thing; people did not ask for it. Thin privilege is merely a result of a fatphobic society. However, people can choose to acknowledge their thin privilege and become involved in activism. From asking how to help, welcoming fat people to sit next to you or participating in Weight Stigma Awareness Week these small actions can help fight the nationwide fatphobia that diet culture encourages.

Finally, do not give out unwarranted health advice. Health advice should come from professionals, such as doctors or dietitians. However, make sure your doctor or dietitian is part of the Health at Every Size movement, as even professionals can be fatphobic.

There is no one way to cure diet culture. It is a $60 billion industry. However, we can perform small acts of resistance to not only help ourselves but others impacted by diet culture and the fatphobia within the culture. Fat people deserve the same treatment as thin people. Weight is not a measure of worth. It is time our society reflects that.

Chloe Plescher can be reached at chloebp@umich.edu.

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Overweight and obese patients not only have few interactions with physicians about their weight but the encounters they do have are largely negative experiences, a new systematic review of patients' perspectives on the subject reveals.

"The overwhelming theme [from this review] was that interactions between patients and doctors about being overweight and weight loss were rare, [and] for participants, not discussing these issues had several meanings...the most profound [being] that people who were overweight felt stigmatized and assumed others, including the doctor, were judging them negatively," write Thanusha Ananthakumar, MD, University of Oxford, UK, and colleagues in their article, published online December 2 in Clinical Obesity.

"Many clinicians fear that if they discuss weight with patients, some will find this unwelcome or offensive," the researchers hypothesize

They advise that physicians start a discussion with the assumption that a person may well already be taking action to lose weight and that what is required is guidance and encouragement.

And clinicians should note that a person's harshest critic of weight status is usually themselves and therefore avoid making "statements that may be interpreted as a judgment carrying moral connotations."

In their review, the authors included 21 qualitative studies in which people with overweight or obesity had consulted a primary care physicianand given their reactions to consultations during which weight could have been or was discussed.

Participants in all but one study had a body mass index (BMI) in excess of 25 kg/m2 and in most studies, it was in excess of 30 kg/m2, the investigators note.

When the issue of weight was not discussed, some patients indicated that they felt their healthcare providers' silence suggested they were not worthy of their time, or that being overweight or obese was not a serious health issue.

"Others regarded it as a failure of the doctors' duty to warn patients of future health problems related to excess weight," Ananthakumar and colleagues observe.

But on the other hand, there was uncertainty and mixed views about whose responsibility it was to bring up weight in a consultation.

A few respondents thought that their physician should ask permission to discuss their weight before initiating a conversion about it even though some participants indicated they would have liked their physician to actually start a discussion about it, at least in part because they were ashamed of being overweight and unable to lose the weight.

"Where it was mentioned, most participants reacted negatively to doctors describing them as 'obese'," the authors note.

In fact, when described as "obese", "in some cases, the word demotivated participants to lose weight because they felt hopeless," they explain.

For many patients, even the tone of voice and the manner in which weight was raised by the physician created negative feelings, again undermining their motivation to lose weight.

"A recurrent theme across studies was that doctors often assumed a person who was overweight must have an unhealthy diet," the investigators write, "[and] these assumptions reflected a common belief that people who are overweight eat a lot of 'junk food' and are not physically active."

Physicians also sometimes offered advice about weight loss that patients felt was banal, implying that the patient was either not trying to look after themselves or they were too stupid to not have already realized what physicians themselves were suggesting and already done something about it.

Many patients also reported that they visited their doctor with symptoms that may have been related to being overweight or obese but their physician immediately presumed their symptoms were weight-related without taking a history or doing a physical exam.

"This left participants feeling dismissed and anxious that a more serious cause for their symptoms might go undetected," the authors point out.

By so doing, patients also felt they had been denied a legitimate treatment and were instead being made to suffer in a punitive manner because of their weight.

"Clinicians should take care when linking weight to a presenting medical issue and discuss weight loss as one of a range of treatment strategies rather than presenting excess weight as the cause of the problem and weight loss as the only cure," the authors emphasize.

When physicians did address the health risks of being overweight or obese, nobody appreciated being scolded or made to feel personally responsible for their presumed weight-related symptoms, as this attitude reflects an all-too-common belief that obesity is a failure of willpower, the authors explain.

On the positive side, patients said that when they trusted their doctor, discussions about being overweight and weight loss were easier and that trusting their physician motivated them to act on their doctors' advice.

"People in society, including many clinicians, hold stigmatizing views of people who are overweight, believing them to be generally less capable and weak-willed," Ananthakumar and colleagues observe.

"And patients with overweight internalize weight stigma, sensitizing them to clues that clinicians are judging them negatively, even if weight is not discussed," they add.

This is in direct contrast to the fact that most people who are overweight are trying hard to lose that weight and, over the short-term at least, are even likely to lose some weight.

"It may [thus] be helpful to start a discussion with the assumption that a person may well be taking action and that what is required is guidance and encouragement towards more effective interventions," the authors suggest.

Clinicians should also remember that the harshest critic of a patient's weight status is likely the patient themselves and avoid statements they may perceive as judgmental.

"Weight loss discussions are more likely to be successful when they involve a trusted clinician who gives time to share options for weight loss in a nonjudgmental manner," they conclude.

Clin Obes. Published online December 2, 2019. Full text

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