Weight Loss

I dropped out of law school before a semester was over but I do remember one Big Idea from Contracts class.

So, as per our last +1, bright lines are super helpful in making deals with ourselves.

In our last +1, we talked about the few key behaviors that are most helping us Optimize 80/20-style.

In our last couple +1s, we’ve been hanging out in an fMRI scanning our brains and seeing some fascinating stuff.

In our last +1, we talked about the Whirlwind of gnats that can attack us as we pursue our Wildly Important Goal.

Susan Peirce Thompson wrote a great book called Bright Line Eating. She has a Ph.D. in neuroscience and is one of the world’s leading experts on the psychology of eating.

Pop quiz today!

In our last +1, we talked about the fact that your taste buds are all shiny new every two weeks—which is good news if you’re addicted to overly-sugary stuff and worried about food tasting bland as you make a transition to Optimizing what you eat.

In our last +1, we talked about Rule #1 of Nutrition. You remember what it was?

In our last +1, we talked about the fact that you’re ALREADY solid gold. Like, 100% jumbo-solid gold.

Gary Taubes wrote a great book called The Case Against Sugar.

How about one more little +1 on Michael Pollan’s Food Rules?

As we’ve discussed, in the Mastery phase of our Heroic Coach program, we recently marched through our fundamentals: Eat + Move + Sleep + Breathe + Be Present + Prosper.

In our +1 on the Top 10 Sleep Kryptonites, we briefly discussed the fact that “Anxiety” is one of the top reasons people give for Why We DON’T Sleep.

One of my favorite things in life is reading with Emerson. It’s a keystone habit for our family’s nighttime rituals that I absolutely cherish. It’s becoming more and more fun to engage in some great micro-philosophical chats about life as we read great books and snuggle. 😍🤓😍

One of the core themes of our work together (in these +1s and in our Coach program, etc.) is the power of constantly (!) experimenting as we find little ways to Optimize.

This morning I was looking through my stack of notes on potential +1s.

In our last +1, we talked about the fact that, as per Robert Lustig’s Fat Chance, our visceral fat (aka abdominal/”big belly” fat) is “the fulcrum on which your health teeters.”

In our last couple +1s, we talked about a key (arguably the #1 key) predictor of our long-term health/morbidity: our visceral fat.

In our last +1, we talked about the fact that 500 years ago we basically consumed NO sugar. Then we started nibbling on 5 lbs of sugar per year a few hundred years ago. Now we vacuum up 150 lbs of sugar on average per person every year.

In our last +1 I mentioned the fact that I recently read Mark Hyman’s new book Food Fix.

In our last +1, we chatted about the fact that your food label might be lying to you by stuffing a few variations of cancer candy (aka sugar) into your jam so “SUGAR” doesn’t make its way to the top slot.

In our last +1, we continued our chat about the toxicity of sugar as we reflected on the fact that the food industry spends $12 BILLION on nutrition research which is “polluting and diluting independent research, and confusing policy makers, the public, and even most doctors and nutritionists.”

In our last several +1s, we’ve been exploring some powerful, sobering, and eye-opening wisdom from Mark Hyman’s great book Food Fix.

Today I want to chat about food prescriptions.

In our last couple +1s, we talked about the wisdom of addressing root causes of health issues rather than merely treating the symptoms of those issues.

One of my favorite parts about creating our Heroic Mastery Series is that it forced me to go to the next level of clarity on the most important aspects of our philosophy.

In our last +1 (#1,000!!), we celebrated our gritty Heroes who have hammered all 1,000 +1s.

We’ve talked a lot about the importance of making a strong commitment. We know that making a 100% commitment is, somewhat paradoxically, way easier than making a 90% or 95% or even a 99.9% commitment.

A couple years ago, we chatted about Aristotle’s Virtuous Mean. Then, a year ago, we dusted off that wisdom and approached it from a slightly different angle in a +1 called Aristotle’s Doctrine of the (Virtuous) Mean.