148. Why Your Scale Goal Is Sabotaging Your Weight Loss (And What to Do Instead)
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Dr. Lisa Oldson discusses how focusing on scale goals can hinder weight loss and offers alternative strategies.
Are you setting weight loss goals that are quietly working against you? In this episode, Dr. Lisa Oldson reveals why fixating on a number on the scale is one of the most common reasons people quit before they ever see real results, and she'll tell you what to do instead. Drawing on over a decade of experience as a weight loss physician, Dr. Oldson breaks down the psychology of goal-setting, including groundbreaking research from NYU psychologist Dr. Gabriele Oettingen, whose studies show that...
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