Time to start not sabotaging
Let's go on a journey together.
Day 30 of 30.
No. Not day one, as mentally I started this months ago, if not years ago. I started thinking about losing weight with having to join a slimming club. I thought about how so many people are over weight, how easily accessible and tasty our food is - how it's all too easy. I once heard a comment by someone in the know that most eating disorders - and that comes all the way down to being overweight, are psychological - that it's not necessarily about the food - though obviously the food we eat has a huge impact on this - but how we feel about food.
Let's review what we do know. The brain is not as fine tuned as we would like to think. Those darn thoughts and beliefs keep getting in the way. Our super-logic and cleverness gets over-ridden by complex biological needs and by chemical reactions, and then our poor self-regulating brain gets bambozelled by our clever logic and reasoning. You don't have to look for too long in a good bookshop for a whoIe host of great books telling us about how wrong our thinking is about most things. Often we are like a stem of corn in a cornfield being blown gently by the breeze (clever marketing) and other times we're driving the combine harvester (behaviour change).
So, what does this mean? This means that our brains find the combination of fat and sugar completely intoxicating and irrisitable. We know the dopamine released (the pleasure and reward chemical) creates an addictive cycle and pattern of behaviour for most people. It is easy to resist so far and then the brain, triggered by an outside influence goes into overdrive and we begin our pleasure seeking/drug seeking behaviour - my drug of choice usually being chocolate. Just quit the chocolate right? No, wrong. If it was easy for us to stop our self-pleasuring addictive behaviours then we wouldn't need drug treatment services - and by the way, you probably wouldn't drink alcohol either.
What else do we know? We know we eat with our eyes and not our stomachs. Our stomachs stretch to accommodate how much we shovel in on a regular basis. Simple capacity and dema