Why Diets Don’t Work (Even When You Follow Them Perfectly) | Sarah Ann Macklin
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In this episode, Sarah Ann Macklin discusses the reasons why diets fail and the impact of perception on health.
Exciting news - pre-order my debut book https://linktr.ee/HealthySBTH?utm_source=linktree_profile_share You are doing everything right. You are eating well, you are exercising, you are optimizing. And somehow, you still aren't feeling as well as you hoped. That was me at 21, before my body finally found a way to make me listen. This week on Live Well Be Well, I want to talk to you about something I've been sitting with for the last ten years, something I've seen quietly transform the lives of my clients, something that changed the entire direction of my own life, and something I've spent the last year pouring into my new book, Healthy Shouldn't Be This Hard.This episode is a deeply personal one. I trace the thread from my own health collapse at 21 all the way to the $8.5 trillion wellness industry that, despite its size, is leaving most of us feeling worse, not better. We talk about the try-slip-shame-restart cycle so many of us are trapped in, and why we keep mistaking self-criticism for self-improvement. I also dig into two landmark studies that stopped me in my tracks while writing this book: Ellen Langer's hotel maid experiment, which showed that perception alone changed…
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Host: Sarah Ann Macklin
Topics covered
- diets
- wellness industry
- self-improvement
- health perception
- hunger hormones
Keywords
- diets
- wellness
- self-criticism
- health studies
- hunger hormones
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