2. When we go on a diet, we allow ourselves to only eat certain foods. We make changes on a surface level but not on a deep level, the level of our beliefs. We don’t make changes in what drives us to eat for comfort, eat when we are not hungry or eat foods that have no nutritional value-foods that we know make us fat. We don’t make changes at the level that really matters.
3. When we diet and restrict the foods we allow ourselves to eat, there is usually a feeling being deprived and sticking to the diet requires willpower. Most of us don’t find pleasure in being on a diet. Instead, we get locked into the do’s and don’ts of what we are sup- posed to do. This adds more stress, creating more stress hormones which just helps our body to hold onto fat stores even more.
4. Restricting food often leads to notic- ing food more and makes the foods we restrict more appealing. This makes it harder to use willpower and say ‘no’ to those foods.
5. There are hormonal changes that occur in the body when we diet. The level of the hormones that make you feel full decrease and the level of the hormones that make you feel hungry increase.
6. There are metabolic changes that happen in the body when we diet. Your metabolism slows down, your body runs on fewer calories and stores the leftover calories as fat.
7. Dieting puts the body in the same state as starving. So your body tries to get you to eat more and stores what it can as fat for survival purposes.
If we want to lose weight and keep it off, we do need to make food choices that make our body strong, vibrant and healthy. But that is only part of the picture. In ad- dition, we also need to address the real reason for the weight gain. We need to delve into our beliefs, patterns and behav- iors that cause us to eat our comfort foods, eat food that has no nutritional value, eat food when we are not hungry, or eat more than what we need to satisfy nutrition. These are the real reasons for the excess weight and these are the things that need to be addressed for the weight loss to be permanent. You see, if you were to ask a physical
body what it wanted, it would say that it wanted only those foods that make it vi- brant and healthy. That would be foods that are close to the earth: lean proteins, com- plex carbohydrates and healthy fats in the portion size that satisfies nutrition only. When we find ourselves eating anything other than this, it is not because the body wanted the food. It is because the mind made the association in the past between
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our comfort foods and getting comfort. So when we reach for those types of foods, it is the mind that wants the foods not our body. The interesting thing is that those foods don’t quite give us the thing for which our mind is looking. They may provide a distraction while actually eating them. But then we often either feel guilty for eating them and/or we are soon looking for the next thing to eat to try to get more of the feelings we are after. It is much more effective to work with the mind and directly give the mind what it is after rather than attempting to get the good feelings through food. When we work directly with the mind, and work directly with the real reasons for the excess weight, it becomes much easier to create a positive relationship with food, make healthy food choices and let go of the excess weight. This is what we need to do in order to
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