Category Nutrition
How CGMs Help You Understand Hunger, Energy & Weight Management
Discover how a continuous glucose monitor reveals how your food choices affect hunger, energy, and weight—so you can eat smarter and feel better every day. A CGM isn’t just for diabetes. Learn how real-time blood sugar tracking can help you manage hunger, energy, and cravings—and transform how you eat.
GLP-1 Weight-Loss Drugs: Why Education Still Matters
GLP-1 receptor agonists like semaglutide (Ozempic/Wegovy), liraglutide (Saxenda), and tirzepatide (Mounjaro/Zepbound) have taken the world by storm. They help people lose significant amounts of weight by reducing appetite and quieting the constant “food noise” that so many struggle with.
But there’s a difficult truth emerging from the science: when people stop these drugs, they regain much of the weight they lost.
In fact, clinical trials show that within one year of stopping semaglutide, participants regained about two-thirds of the weight they had lost. Real-world data is even starker: by two years, 85% of patients have discontinued GLP-1 medications. By three years, fewer than 10% remain on them. And once the injections stop, hunger and cravings almost always return.
Why Do We Need GLP-1 Drugs like Ozempic Now?
Obesity keeps rising, and we now seem to need drugs to combat it. But why?
In recent years, medications like Ozempic and other GLP-1 agonists have surged in popularity—not just as diabetes treatments, but as tools for weight loss. Their rise reflects something deeper than a personal health choice: a public surrender to a food environment that has become too powerful to resist. We don’t suddenly have less willpower—we have a radically different world. This article explores how changes in food supply, culture, industry influence, and lifestyle patterns have collided to create an obesity epidemic that now seems to require pharmaceutical intervention just to keep up. When you step back and compare nations with vastly different obesity rates—like the U.S., Japan, France, and South Korea—the patterns become undeniable. The data tells a story of how we got here—and why drugs may feel like the only answer in a system designed to keep us overeating.
What’s iDiet all about?
An audio exploration of iDiet's key features and differentiators. What makes iDiet special? The science behind the claims.
Summary: Want to Lose Weight? What You Need to Know about Eating and Exercise
What you eat is more important than how much you exercise. Exercise is not the most important thing to focus on when you want to lose weight — although it has numerous other health benefits, including maintaining a healthy weight. As Dr. Roberts’ lab has proved, what you eat and how much you eat play a substantially greater role in determining whether you shed kilograms. But her research has gone much deeper, showing that different people lose weight more effectively with different foods. This realization allows us to create personalized weight-loss plans for individuals that work better than any one-size-fits-all advice.
What is balanced eating, and can it help with weight control?
Balanced eating refers to a dietary approach that ensures you are consuming a variety of foods in the right proportions to meet your nutritional needs. The goal is to provide your body with all the essential nutrients—proteins, fats, carbohydrates, vitamins, and minerals—while maintaining an appropriate caloric intake.
Key Principles of Balanced Eating:
What are the best foods for weight management? According to iDiet
According to iDiet and Dr Susan Roberts, what are the best foods for weight management?
The iDiet emphasizes foods that are high in fiber and protein, and low-glycemic foods to help manage weight effectively. This approach helps you feel full and satisfied, reducing the likelihood of overeating. The diet includes whole foods and minimizes the intake of high calorie, high fat, and highly processed foods.
Weight Loss Without Ozempic: Effective Strategies for Achieving Your Goals
Harnessing the Power of Fiber and Protein for Effective Weight Loss
In your quest for effective weight management, dietary fiber and protein are a dynamic duo of nutrients. Together, they not only aid in digestion and muscle maintenance but also play a crucial role in controlling hunger and facilitating weight loss. As a renowned nutrition expert and researcher, Dr. Susan B. Roberts has extensively studied the benefits of combining fiber and protein, integrating these insights into the successful iDiet program. Here, we delve into the power of fiber and protein and how they can be harnessed for effective weight loss.
Nourishing the Brain and Body
This is an age of articles about optimizing everything. And while optimizing your calendar or your cable bill might feel overwhelming, there are simpler things we can do to get more significant dividends.
Neuroscience suggests that a key to a long, healthy life lies in the simplest of daily choices — choosing better foods. It may feel difficult, but it can be made simple.