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If you can’t diet, what should you do? Registered dietitian Kara Lydon, an intuitive eating counsellor and blogger at The Foodie Dietitian, says you must focus on self-care – and give up on dieting. A review of 25 studies on dieting published in 2013 in Frontiers in Psychology found that dieting is actually a predictor of weight gain.

Instead, Lydon says, “If you place less focus on the number on the scale, you can spend more time and energy on health-promoting behaviours – like engaging in joyful movement and eating foods that are satisfying. Focusing on self-care can help boost self-esteem, which in turn helps people take better care of themselves and sustain improvements in healthy behaviours.”