What happens after the dramatic “after” photo? A Matter of Fat is a podcast for anyone who has no idea what they think about weight, bodies and the rapidly changing conversation around them.

Hosted by journalist Rose Stokes, who brings 30 years of lived experience with weight and obesity, and Dr Giles Yeo, a University of Cambridge scientist who has spent three decades studying the genetics of body weight, this podcast brings together lived experience and science without pretending to have all the answers.

In episode two, Rose and Giles explore why diets can appear to work, why the weight so often comes back and what years of restriction can do to our bodies and minds.

We cover:

• Whether it’s really true that 95% of diets fail

• Why the brain fights back when we lose weight

• Rose’s experience of starting Weight Watchers at just 11 years old

• Losing a third of her body weight within a coercive relationship

• Why maintaining weight loss can require eating less than someone who was never heavier

• The pressure to perform as a “good fat person”

• Plus, we fact-check negative-calorie foods and rate the Atkins diet

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RESOURCES

Mann et al. (2007), UCLA: “Dieting Does Not Work”

https://newsroom.ucla.edu/releases/Dieting-Does-Not-Work-UCLA-Researchers-7832

TRANSPARENCY

Professor Giles Yeo consults and speaks for Novo Nordisk, Eli Lilly and Amgen, and has received research grant funding from Novo Nordisk and Amgen. He is joining Amgen's cardiometabolic scientific advisory board, and also consults for Voy. Industry funds most obesity research and these relationships are typical for senior researchers in the field.

Rose Stokes has taken GLP-1 medication and writes about weight and the pharmaceutical industry as a freelance journalist.

This episode is sponsored by Mindful Chef, who had no involvement in the episode beyond their own advertising.

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