GET OFF THE diet ROLLERCOASTER

Dietitian Lyndi Cohen wants you to take a deep breath and think about your weight, and health, in a whole new way.

-  Lyndi Cohen

You’re smart. You already know that health is a marathon, not a sprint. But at times, you’ve been so blinded by the desire to lose weight, so motivated to break free from that ‘ick’ feeling in your body, that you go from never exercising to signing up for a 5am boot-camp (even though you hate circuit training). Or you return to a weight-loss method that once worked for you, only to find you can no longer stick to it, a common state called diet burnout. And so you oscillate from daily takeaway and boozy weekends to kale salads and nightly meditation.

This is the all-too-familiar diet rollercoaster. In this chapter, we’ll talk about the things that keep you stuck on the diet rollercoaster, and how to get off at the next stop and return to solid ground.