Yoni Freedhoff > Quotes

“Plenty of people are taught that the magic bullet of weight loss is to simply “eat less and move more.” Worse, many people believe that exercise, an incredibly enjoyable and healthful behavior, must be taken to unenjoyable extremes if weight is a concern.”
― Yoni Freedhoff, The Diet Fix: Why Diets Fail and How to Make Yours Work

“One of the largest drivers of diet-related chronic disease is misinformation, and the playing field we face as consumers in our supermarkets is anything but level, with food manufacturers enjoying a very unfair advantage. With health claims, both overt and covert (implied), and governments that don’t seem to care, consumers are left to fend for themselves in the face of the food industries’ massive marketing machines.”
― Yoni Freedhoff, The Diet Fix: Why Diets Fail and How to Make Yours Work

“if a box tries to convince you its contents are healthy, there’s a great chance that they’re not.”
― Yoni Freedhoff, The Diet Fix: Why Diets Fail and How to Make Yours Work

“Carbohydrates First off, you don’t have to have them. That doesn’t mean I’m telling you to go on a low-carb diet. Rather, the evidence base to date suggests that low-carb diets are safe. So if you’ve enjoyed low-carb living in the past, but stopped because you were worried it wasn’t good for you, feel free to consider going back to a low-carb lifestyle.”
― Yoni Freedhoff, The Diet Fix: Why Diets Fail and How to Make Yours Work

“Food’s not just fuel. If it were, we’d all swallow our calorie pills, followed by our vitamin pills, and be whatever weight we wanted as we could simply take in more or less calories as we saw fit.”
― Yoni Freedhoff, The Diet Fix: Why Diets Fail and How to Make Yours Work

“never trust the fronts of packages, as the safest assumption is that if the packaging is trying to convince you that the contents are healthful, there’s a better chance that they’re not than that they are.”
― Yoni Freedhoff, The Diet Fix: Why Diets Fail and How to Make Yours Work

“Exercise alone isn’t sufficient. You just can’t outrun your fork.”
― Yoni Freedhoff, The Diet Fix: Why Diets Fail and How to Make Yours Work

“Juice is not a fruit. Per drop, juice has the same amount or more of both sugar and calories when compared with sugared soda. If you agree that adding vitamins and minerals to Coca-Cola wouldn’t make it a healthy choice, then you should probably reconsider that morning glass of orange juice, as that’s all it really is—flat soda pop with vitamins, from which the processing has removed the vast majority of the fruit’s actual nutrition.”
― Yoni Freedhoff, The Diet Fix: Why Diets Fail and How to Make Yours Work

“went. On paper, the patients did fine. They lost weight and in many cases they even improved their health to the point of coming off some medications. They generally felt quite positive about the changes they were making in their lives. But they weren’t uniformly satisfied. Although they lost enough weight to improve their qualities of life, their behavior changes were often short-lived, and many regained their lost weight and reverted to their old lifestyles over the course of the next one to two years. Flash”
― Yoni Freedhoff, The Diet Fix: Why Diets Fail and How to Make Yours Work

“it’s far easier to lose weight in your kitchen than it is to lose weight in your gym.”
― Yoni Freedhoff, The Diet Fix: Why Diets Fail and How to Make Yours Work

“Food can’t simply be about fuel or sustenance; food must be allowed to comfort, celebrate, bolster, and support. Like it or not, life includes chocolate,”
― Yoni Freedhoff, The Diet Fix: Why Diets Fail and How to Make Yours Work

“Compared with Coca-Cola, per drop, wine has more than double the calories.”
― Yoni Freedhoff, The Diet Fix: Why Diets Fail and How to Make Yours Work

“There have even been class action lawsuits launched against Applebee’s, Chili’s, On the Border, Macaroni Grill, and Weight Watchers following the laboratory evaluation of restaurant meals listed as being low in calories (and specially designed for WeightWatchers) when the results demonstrated markedly higher calories—sometimes more than double—than what was posted.”
― Yoni Freedhoff, The Diet Fix: Why Diets Fail and How to Make Yours Work

“FOR THOSE DESPERATE TO TRY A THREE MEAL, NO SNACK APPROACH”
― Yoni Freedhoff, The Diet Fix: Why Diets Fail and How to Make Yours Work

“Fruits and vegetables also fall into the carbohydrate catchall. For the most part, they’re all wonderful. The only possible exception is the potato: Dr. Walter Willett, Harvard’s chair in nutrition since 1991 and the world’s second-most-cited scientist in history, once suggested that consuming one was akin to spooning pure white table sugar into your mouth.”
― Yoni Freedhoff, The Diet Fix: Why Diets Fail and How to Make Yours Work

“Consequently, an ultrarapid 50-pound loss may lead a person to not only lose the actual strength to continue with their efforts, but also to suffer from a disproportionately slower metabolism consequent to their disproportionate loss of muscle and perhaps an amplified near-starvation adapted metabolic response. This phenomenon may help to explain why it is that people who lose large amounts of weight rapidly often regain more than they’d lost despite in fact not eating any more than they used to. If that person then goes back to the life they were living before their ultrarapid loss, even though they’re not eating any more than they did prior to losing weight, they’ll gain back”
― Yoni Freedhoff, The Diet Fix: Why Diets Fail and How to Make Yours Work