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: […]