The REAL Secret to Sustained Weight Loss Isn’t What You Think

Dana Leigh Lyons
8 min readJul 14, 2019

Intuitive eating, mindfulness, weight loss, holistic medicine, integrative medicine, holistic health.

Another lifetime ago, as a 20-something living in Washington, DC, I worked as a self-employed Arabic translator.

I liked my job well enough. Arabic is a magnificent language, and being able to earn a living from translation felt like quite an accomplishment — one involving a Master’s from Georgetown followed by a year-long fellowship in Egypt.

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