Great article, overall! As a personal trainer and author myself, a lot of these messages are the same ones I give to my clients, like:

- Sleep is #1 - it helps you both with cravings and snacking

- Speaking of cravings - if the craving is for real food, go ahead and eat. But if it's a craving not related to physical hunger, I give different techniques to different clients to manage them

One thing that I used to preach, because others used to preach it, but never really understood it myself (so I stopped preaching it) is how food intolerances cause weight loss resistance.

There are basically 4 sources that contribute to total daily energy expenditure:

1. BMR

2. NEAT

3. Exercise

4. Thermic effect of food.

Which of these are affected by food intolerances? Or do they cause weight gain through some other mechanism? Water retention? Affecting the "energy in" side of the equation (ie causing you to overeat other foods, etc.)?