For you, if you always break the rules and think that the most difficult part of losing weight is "controlling your diet", or have tried a bunch of methods to no avail, and feel that you will gain weight even if you drink water (or even gain weight just by breathing), then, if you want to successfully lose weight and not lose weight again, first of all, before changing your eating habits, you must first transform the "brain that is difficult to lose weight". As long as you change the brain's cognition, you can lose weight painlessly! Modern people have many dietary problems, especially overeating caused by high stress. This is the result of us constantly instilling "stress → eating → happiness" into the brain, forming wrong eating habits, which in turn causes many chronic diseases (such as obesity). This is why I always ask patients about their daily eating and sleeping habits during consultations, because eating and sleeping can reflect the condition of the brain. People who lose control of their eating habits usually have already lost control of their brains! Therefore, if you want to successfully lose weight, what you must overcome first is definitely not your willpower or your appetite, but your out-of-control brain! Stop blaming yourself for lack of self-discipline, and stop taking the wrong path. Through medical treatment, you can turn your "difficult to lose weight" into a "susceptible brain". Losing weight can really lead to painless weight loss!
What is the reason why people still eat a lot of food even though they are not hungry?
Some people want to eat because they are depressed or stressed, some people feel bored and greedy, and some people don’t know the reason at all and eat a lot of food unconsciously. If you want to break away from the "autopilot" eating pattern driven by inertia, the secret is to "create white space." Leaving it blank is like applying the brakes. As soon as you apply the brakes, you have the opportunity to release the automatic driving mode. First of all, don’t start eating food immediately after it is put on the table. Let yourself relax and calm down first (stop), then examine the contents and combination of the plate (see), and finally focus on eating and listen to your body’s signals when eating (listen). Many times, we appear to be eating, but in fact we are just stuffing food into our stomachs, and then our brains are constantly distracted doing other things, not participating in the process of eating and digestion at all. No matter how much we eat, our brains are not easily satisfied! Therefore, when eating, please focus on the matter of "eating", and you can greatly reduce "emotional eating"!
For obese people, the first thing to do is to change the brain, not to change the body shape or weight. A healthy and slim body is just the result of changes to the brain. If you think you are too fat now, it is because you have a fat brain. If you don't modify your brain first, then no matter how much you lose weight, you won't be able to fundamentally improve it, and you may end up gaining weight again and again.
