Pushing Your Set Point to the Limits: The McDougall Program for Maximum Weight Loss
Note: this content originally appeared in our January 2005 newsletter. More up-to-date research may be available, but the message is still the same!
The set point theory is rock solid – so accept the fact that you are stuck in your present body size and shape. Look around – don’t the body shapes of your friends and relatives remain about the same year after year? Mr. Jones, working behind the counter at the post office, has been rotund since the day you met him 20 years ago. Your Aunt Millie maintains her same full form – with a few fleeting changes due to one fad diet or another. With rare exceptions, the fat ones stay fat and the trim ones stay trim. Their identities (and yours) are maintained like the presidents’ faces carved in stone on Mount Rushmore. Fortunately, there are ways out of this ambush.
You have three basic choices:
