"'Normal eating is flexible—not perfect—and it includes sometimes having too much just because we feel like it." — Margo Maine, PhD, a body image and eating disorder specialist and author of The Body Myth: Adult Women and the Pressure to be Perfect
You can lose all the weight you like, but until your self-image catches up with your new, thinner body, you're in danger of gaining it right back. Emily Yoffe reports on the phenomenon of phantom fat.
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