#210: Weight Cycling with Evelyn Tribole
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Evelyn Tribole, MS, RDN is the author of 10 books, including co-author of the best-selling Intuitive Eating, a mind-body self-care eating framework, which has given rise to over 200 studies to date. Her newest book is Intuitive Eating for Every Day: 365 Inspirations and Practices.
As an international speaker, Evelyn enjoys training health professionals on how to help their clients cultivate a healthy relationship with food, mind, and body through the process of Intuitive Eating. To date there are over 2,600 Certified Intuitive Eating Counselors in 60 countries.
The media often seeks Evelyn for her expertise, including New York Times, CNN, NBC’s Today Show, MSNBC, Fox News, USA Today, The Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic, Vogue, Ten Percent Happier, and People magazine. Evelyn was the nutrition expert for Good Morning America, and a national spokesperson for the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics for six years.
We discuss topics including:
- Studies that show what health problems we increase our risk for developing
- The problem with disrupting insulin
- Decreasing lean body mass and regaining fat
- Problems with GLP medications and their impact on weight cycling
- The state of your body when weight cycling
SHOW NOTES:
- www.instagram.com/evelyntribole
- www.evelyntribole.com
- www.intuitiveeating.org
- Falkenhain, K., Redman, L. M., Chen, W., Martin, C. K., Ravussin, E., & Shen, W. (2025). Effect of caloric restriction on organ size and its contribution to metabolic adaptation: an ancillary analysis of CALERIE 2. Scientific reports, 15(1), 30374. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-83762-0
- Gaesser & Angadi (2021). Ob*sity treatment: Weight loss versus increasing fitness and physical activity for reducing health risks. iScience 24 102995. Open Access
- Li, W., & Chen, W. (2023). Weight cycling based on altered immune microenvironment as a result of metaflammation. Nutrition & metabolism, 20(1), 13. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12986-023-00731-6
- Zamboni, M., Giani, A., Fantin, F., Rossi, A. P., Mazzali, G., & Zoico, E. (2025). Weight cycling and its effects on muscle mass, sarcopenia and sarcopenic obesity. Reviews in endocrine & metabolic disorders, 10.1007/s11154-025-09963-8. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11154-025-09963-8
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