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Weight Loss: A New Conversation That’s Long Overdue

The Weekly Fill | The weight loss conversations you've been looking for (and the one I've been putting off for years)!

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Alexa Schirm
Jan 09, 2025
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I’ve spent much of my career avoiding two of the biggest subjects in nutrition: weight loss and dieting.

This might seem ironic since I entered the nutrition field determined to help people lose weight without sacrificing their lives. At 18, with my still-developing frontal lobe, I believed there had to be a better way.

I’ve spent nearly two decades rese…

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