Top Highlights

• Overcoming fat logic is the first and most important step towards achieving a body weight that we are actually comfortable with.
• the presence of other people increases the amount people eat by up to 72 per cent
• Ultimately, perception is the deciding factor: someone with a naturally small appetite and someone with a large appetite will perceive the same portion of food completely differently.
• The only useful way to get a realistic idea of your eating habits is to weigh absolutely every mouthful with a set of kitchen scales and write it down. Estimating the calorie content of food is so inaccurate that it’s as good as useless. This is even truer for people who see themselves as too fat or too thin and want to change their weight.
• our metabolism is the sum total of all the chemical processes in our body, including our brain function, heartbeat, the functions of our other organs, temperature regulation and, of course, muscle activity.