The fact that dieting is the number one predictor of weight gain is upsetting and difficult to absorb. Not only is dieting the only way you’ve been taught to be “healthy” and lose weight, but it is also assumed that if you fail at dieting, you are the problem.

Well, “failing” at dieting actually means your are biologically and psychologically normal, and that your body is working just as it was intended to. Wait, what? Let’s unpack this by going way back to where and how our bodies came to be.