Dr. Rangan Chatterjee

the pastries, the pan of chocolats, the biscuits, whatever it might be, I have a rule that if I don't want to eat it, I don't bring it into the house. That makes it much easier, and I think that's a great rule for many people to think about. But that first F, Mel, where you just start to understand yourself, I've seen it with patients, it starts to change everything.

You may not change it straight away, but I tell you, within a week, you're coming there, you're on the sofa, you're thinking, wait a minute, I don't need this. I know what's going on here. And you feel the sense of control. I read your new book recently, The Let Them Theory, and I love it. And in that book, you write a lot about control.

You may not change it straight away, but I tell you, within a week, you're coming there, you're on the sofa, you're thinking, wait a minute, I don't need this. I know what's going on here. And you feel the sense of control. I read your new book recently, The Let Them Theory, and I love it. And in that book, you write a lot about control.

You may not change it straight away, but I tell you, within a week, you're coming there, you're on the sofa, you're thinking, wait a minute, I don't need this. I know what's going on here. And you feel the sense of control. I read your new book recently, The Let Them Theory, and I love it. And in that book, you write a lot about control.

This base human need that we want to feel in control, why the three Fs work so well, and why listening to lots of external advice and not... owning the advice for yourself becomes problematic because you feel out of control. Yes. Right.

This base human need that we want to feel in control, why the three Fs work so well, and why listening to lots of external advice and not... owning the advice for yourself becomes problematic because you feel out of control. Yes. Right.

This base human need that we want to feel in control, why the three Fs work so well, and why listening to lots of external advice and not... owning the advice for yourself becomes problematic because you feel out of control. Yes. Right.

When you can't decide between a low carb diet, a plant-based diet, a keto diet, a paleo diet, when you try them and you feel it doesn't work for you, but it worked for your best friends.

When you can't decide between a low carb diet, a plant-based diet, a keto diet, a paleo diet, when you try them and you feel it doesn't work for you, but it worked for your best friends.

When you can't decide between a low carb diet, a plant-based diet, a keto diet, a paleo diet, when you try them and you feel it doesn't work for you, but it worked for your best friends.

You never think, well, you rarely think that the diet was the failure. You think you're the failure

You never think, well, you rarely think that the diet was the failure. You think you're the failure

You never think, well, you rarely think that the diet was the failure. You think you're the failure

Yeah. And that leads to guilt, shame, regrets. That leads and reinforces these feelings that I'm not good enough. Okay. I can't get the right plan for me. And sometimes I would argue that some people are better off having not started that diet than than having started it, failed, and then feeling even worse than before they'd even started.

Yeah. And that leads to guilt, shame, regrets. That leads and reinforces these feelings that I'm not good enough. Okay. I can't get the right plan for me. And sometimes I would argue that some people are better off having not started that diet than than having started it, failed, and then feeling even worse than before they'd even started.

Yeah. And that leads to guilt, shame, regrets. That leads and reinforces these feelings that I'm not good enough. Okay. I can't get the right plan for me. And sometimes I would argue that some people are better off having not started that diet than than having started it, failed, and then feeling even worse than before they'd even started.

It's the biggest piece, right? It's not just doing it. It's doing it and then going, oh yeah, I'm noticing now that I'm feeling different. So let's say someone listens to your podcast, smell or mind, right? And one week they hear an expert talking about the benefits of a plant-based diet. Yep.

It's the biggest piece, right? It's not just doing it. It's doing it and then going, oh yeah, I'm noticing now that I'm feeling different. So let's say someone listens to your podcast, smell or mind, right? And one week they hear an expert talking about the benefits of a plant-based diet. Yep.

It's the biggest piece, right? It's not just doing it. It's doing it and then going, oh yeah, I'm noticing now that I'm feeling different. So let's say someone listens to your podcast, smell or mind, right? And one week they hear an expert talking about the benefits of a plant-based diet. Yep.

And the next week, they hear another well-credentialed experts talk about the benefits of a ketogenic diet. And the problem is people get confused, right? Because they're like, I'm only going to listen to experts. Oh, but here's the problem with that. You can have well-credentialed experts from really good institutions saying two different things, right?