Why I don’t talk about weight loss (but I am today)

I know I said I’d take a month off this newsletter, but I wanted to address something because I’ve been getting a lot of flack online this past week.

I wrote a piece for You magazine last weekend, which was inspired by one of my newsletters about how we should stop eating all the time, ie. SEAT. Eating less often has many benefits, including increased energy, sharpened focus, and giving your digestive system a break, improving gut health. But the You magazine piece was angled around weight loss (for which it’s also very effective), and this led to me receiving many angry DMs because ‘diet culture’ is bad.

The thing is, I agree with you. If you read my newsletters, including the one about SEAT, I have never mentioned weight loss. My health priorities are reducing my risk of cancer recurrence, and adding as many healthy years to my life as possible (I don’t want to live forever, I’m not Jeff Bezos, just want to stick around to see my kids grow up). So within that, I’m interested in gut he…