Gaining Common Sense in Weight Loss
More and more obese people are realizing that they are often overweight after following many recommendations from media and non-media professionals, professors and health specialists. These tips, which advocate one diet or another, are widely disseminated in the pages of print magazines or on the Internet.
It is clear that the “yoyo effect” does not really manifest itself until twenty years after the first diet. So how do you best fix this?
By adopting a new way of eatingwith common sense, according to two axes: keep control over oneself while making sure to have fun.
Maintain some control over yourself
Staying attentive to the well-being of your body does not mean that you have to weigh your food one by one or take your meals at specific and fixed times. The middle ground is not in restriction, prohibitions and deprivations. Because systematically saying “no” to all food pleasures does not facilitate weight loss, quite the contrary! Common sense does not make you obsessive or frustrate. INSERM scientists(1) advise to remain attentive to one’sown appetite, to trust oneself only in one’s needs.
However, for the overweight person, it is not so simple because he has lost this common sense. Normally individuals stop eating food when they are no longer hungry. Obese people are in an emotional mode that prevents them from feeling the “stop” signal. For them, only one thing matters: to reassure themselves. And what could be easier for that than food. Thus, even if overweight people can not suddenly manage their nutritional report perfectly, they are able toreflect on their compulsions.
Chewing each bite consciously so you don’t overeat and swallow anything. Then, use the trick of drinking a large glass of water thirty minutes before each of your main meals.
Make sure you have fun
According to a recent study, to stay slim and keep the line it is enough to listen to your body, avoid drastic diets, eat your fill while making sure tomaintain a balanced diet. Gradually and sustainably losing your extra pounds is at this price. Continuing to enjoy yourself while eating the foods that the obese person likes is essential for a healthy psychological health. Because being thin should not be the only goal of the overweight individual, an overall balance should be sought.
According to Dr. Sandrine Péneau, nutritionist at INSERM, diets do not work in the long term. What’s the point of disrupting your internal nutritional clock? What’s the point of messing up your taste and digestion sensations?
It is therefore more profitable to listen to your food intuitions. But what does it consist of? In fact, intuitive eating is focusing on your own feelings of hunger, thirst and satiety. It includes messages such as “I eat slowly”, “I listen to my hunger”, “I trust myself”… Thus,mindfulnessis, once again, very useful here.
This wouldn’t be the first time that scientific studies would allow overweight people to realize that they don’t quite have the right behaviors or the right way of thinking.
Stephen Paul is the lead author and founder of My Health Sponsor. Holder of a diploma in health and well-being coaching with more than 200 articles in the field of health, he makes it a point of honor to offer advice based on reliable information, based on scientific research, and verified by health professionals.