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Stop Fighting Your Diet, a free health course on Tomo

Stop Fighting Your Diet

Like Duolingo, but for Stop Fighting Your Diet. Tomo turns the whole topic into a game you play five minutes a day, until it actually sticks.

For the part of you with thirty open tabs that never became anything.

A short one: 24 levels across 3 sections, about 48 minutes end to end, roughly 10 days at five minutes a day. It moves through Fix Your Daily Habits, Master Your Mindset, and Understand the Science. It starts from scratch.

24 bite-size levelsAbout 5 minutes each

Free forever · No credit card · iPhone & Android

Barnaby Bear, the guide who teaches the Stop Fighting Your Diet course
Stop Fighting Your Diet
with Barnaby Bear
24
Levels
3
Sections
5
Min/day
What you'll learn

Key ideas in Stop Fighting Your Diet

  • Rigid rules create a 'broken' mindset
  • Flexible dieting allows for deviations
  • Shame is the primary driver of spirals
  • The 'What the Hell' effect
  • Consistency is maintained by returning to normal habits immediately
  • The psychological sequence of the 'shame-driven spiral'
  • Extreme compensation (like fasting) often triggers a secondary cycle of hunger and overeating
  • The cycle of compensation
  • Liquids bypass the physical stretching of the stomach that signals fullness
  • The brain does not suppress hunger hormones in response to liquid calories as effectively as solid food
  • Swapping liquid sugar for fiber-rich whole versions or calorie-free alternatives reduces intake
  • Small adjustments to existing habits are more sustainable than total elimination
  • Liquid calories are 'invisible' to the body's compensatory mechanisms
  • Drinking calories often leads to a higher total daily caloric intake
  • Why liquid calories fail to trigger satiety compared to solid food
  • The 'invisible' nature of liquid energy density
Why not just Google it

You've tried the other tabs

Wikipedia

Thirty open tabs. Four facts you actually kept.

YouTube

You watched. You nodded. By Sunday it was gone.

ChatGPT

One answer, then back to scrolling.

Online courses

Eight weeks. You meant to finish. You didn't.

Tomo gives Stop Fighting Your Diet the Duolingo treatment: levels, streaks, and quick quizzes that test what you just learned. That game loop is what the tabs above never had, so it's the one you actually finish.

Try a question

Here's what playing it feels like

A real question from this course. Take your best guess.

The Trap of Perfection

Imagine you're at a party and decide to have a small slice of cake. Which approach helps you stay on track the next day?

Get it right to open this lesson and 23 more in the app.

Course map

Where Stop Fighting Your Diet takes you

Stop falling into the common traps that make weight loss feel impossible. Learn how to work with your body's natural signals instead of fighting against them every day.

  1. 1

    Fix Your Daily Habits

    • Why 'All or Nothing' Fails
    • The Hidden Calories in Drinks
    • Eating When You Aren't Hungry
    • The Sleep and Hunger Connection
    • Smart Swaps for Your Favorites
  2. 2

    Master Your Mindset

    • Recovering from a Big Meal
    • How Stress Makes You Snack
    • Setting Goals You Can Actually Hit
  3. 3

    Understand the Science

    • How Your Metabolism Really Works
    • The Truth About Muscle and Fat
    • Why Your Weight Fluctuates Daily
    • What Hormones Do to Your Appetite

3 sections · 12 units · 24 levels. Built to play, not to enroll.

How it's taught

You pick the voice

This course
The Storyteller

Stop Fighting Your Diet is taught in the The Storyteller style: every lesson is a story. Want a different feel? In the app you can spin up the same topic in any of Tomo's teaching styles. Same facts, totally different vibe.

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Start Stop Fighting Your Diet today.

Download Tomo, search Stop Fighting Your Diet, and play your first lesson in under a minute.