Episode Details

How to stick to a diet long term? We struggle to stick to new dietary habits and think willpower is the key. Yet sticking with your diet has relatively little to do with willpower: research indicates it plays a minor role, whereas common, fixable issues underlie most people’s difficulties in sticking with a healthier diet. This video covers the top 5 issues people report when trying to stick to a diet, as well as 3 major strategies to rectify those issues and increase our odds of success.

80% relapse:
https://academic.oup.com/ajcn/article/82/1/222S/4863393

Study on former vs current vegetarians/vegans:
https://faunalytics.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Faunalytics_Current-Former-Vegetarians_Full-Report.pdf

long-term weight-loss maintenance:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24355667

willpower and BMI:
https://www.apa.org/science/about/psa/2018/05/calorie-deprivation.aspx

ripple effect:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/oby.22098

PlantPure Communities:
https://plantpurecommunities.org/

PlantPure Pods:
https://plantpurecommunities.org/plantpurepods/

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