Bulimia – The Queen of Emotions   “I’m going crazy. I don’t understand myself at all. What I did yesterday was absolutely horrible: I ate everything in the refrigerator, a whole grape pie, a quart of ice cream, half a box of chocolate cookies, that’s all that was left, and […]

Second Commandment: Choose what you want to eat   “Primary care patient’s preferences for Very Low Calorie Diets vs Low Calorie Diets, 9th International Congress of Obesity, August 2002.”   For the past 50 years, my research and scientific publications have focused on identifying the best diet for losing weight. […]

First commandment: Be responsible not guilty “Neurocognitive and hormonal correlates of voluntary weight loss in humans, Cell Metabolism, January 2019.”   This study was recently published in a very important scientific journal CELL METABOLISM. It is the confirmation through MRI that everything happens between the two ears. Our team of […]

#4 Change your habits quickly.   « Early treatment response as a predictor of ongoing weight loss in obesity treatment, British Journal of Health Psychology, November 2005. »   In this same study, we found that the quick change of habits is productive of a successful weight loss. Habits are acquired through […]

Seventh Commandment: Appreciate what you have “Positive and negative dimensions of weight control motivation, Eating Behaviors, October 2011.”   We published a study in 2011, which leads to a better understanding of motivation and shakes up the way we approach obesity treatment. In fact, there are two factors to motivation: […]