The idea of a claiming a growth mindset to achieve weight loss was not something I remember learning in any classroom growing up. It certainly was not discussed when it came to what I ate at home or on the playground. Instead, I remember the food pyramid hanging on the wall and on my kitchen fridge. How about you?
She helped me realize that so much of what I knew as truth was old and often incorrect information. My fixed mindset was built off of a model published in 1992 and never evolved. Instead of cutting a few calories to lose weight, I had hacked off half of my intake, practically sending myself into starvation mode.

But that was the ONLY way I knew to lose weight, and because it didn’t work, I considered myself a complete FAILURE.

What actually happened is I had developed a “fixed” mindset.