Think and lose weight: how slender people think

I have a delicious samosa next to the microwave. With tofu cheese and spinach - just like I adore. He seduces me in the morning, but I just can't get to him, says Lilia Cardenas on psy-practice.com.

While I finally ran to the kitchen to taste his aromatic barrel, I came up with an idea for this article. The words surrounded me with a strong siege, and I obediently went to the computer in order to share with the readers my vision of the psychology of weight loss (and I have something to share: to lose 40 kg of excess weight is not for you to draw the word WORLD on fences!)

And only when I was writing the final sentence, the thought struck me that even 5 years ago, Samos would have succeeded.

There are many approaches to losing excess weight: diet, gym, meditative practices, nutritional supplements and long walks. With this diversity, the question remains: why can not lose weight?

The psychological mood of a person determines how he lives, acts and perceives the world around him. After losing weight by exactly half, I look back and understand that the key to successful weight loss is in the head, not in the refrigerator.

No weight loss method will work if it does not give you pleasure. Sounds easy? But effective. I knowingly mentioned a variety of approaches to work on the body of a dream. Inside each of us lives a psychological center, which decides how we will relate to the problem. If excess weight seems disgusting to us, it is natural for us to twist and catch ourselves at the “body” in front of the mirror, which serves as confirmation of our own imperfections.

Weight loss begins in the head, and only then manifests itself outside as the desired result.

A diet that helped your friend lose weight may not be right for you. You must understand that any compulsion causes rejection - a matter of time when it happens. This is the reason why diets do not work, or their effect is limited by very tight time frames.

Why lose weight to an important event, if you can find a dream figure and support it without effort throughout life?

As a philologist, I like that in English there is no word “diet” in the sense in which we perceive it when we speak Russian. Word diet in English, reflects a set of eating habits that a person is guided by daily. This word describes a person's eating behavior, and not a short-term restriction in food, which the fair sex is so fond of being abused before the New Year holidays.

I think it will be much better if we borrow from the English-speaking brothers the meaning they put into the word diet and place it in the very center of our own perception.

Diet in the classic sense of the word makes us clench our fists harder. The short-term nature of the diet makes us happy because the diet we choose for two or three weeks is unacceptable and disgusting for us, and we can't wait to return to our native, familiar as soon as possible. The secret is to make healthy food familiar and familiar to oneself in such a way as to enjoy it - and then the need to exhaust your body with diets, writhing from hunger at a planning meeting, disappears by itself.

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Find food and sports that you like.

We all grew up in different conditions, communicated with different people and thought different thoughts. How, then, can we expect Mrs. X's newfangled diet to be appropriate for our particular situation, physiology, and lifestyle? Only I can know that dairy products make me bloated, and a plate of oatmeal for breakfast sticks the expression “how I hate everything” to my face for the rest of the day.

Only I can know that I was the only girl in the class who trembled before the norm, where you need to jump over the goat - and only I remember how bitter it was to hide in the locker room while my athletic smart classmates performed acrobatic stunts.

Two years ago, I discovered that I love bicycles. Bicycles turn me on from the inside. I love the way my long blonde hair flutters as I ride into the wind. I love the way big corn leaves rustle against my shoulders in mid-August as I cut the road between plantings, and how my nose fills with the scent of wet leaves mixed with warm earthy scent as I pedal in October twilight - like a superhero racing to save humanity.

Find your sport. It can be walks around the city, or maybe tennis.

Find your food. You love smoothies, right? But what if I told you that spinach, oatmeal, and even spirulina can be ground in a banana smoothie to heighten the effect - and although you will not feel a change in taste, the effect of such a meal will be much more noticeable?

After all, the first bite is always the tastiest. Learn to enjoy and taste food. Listen to your body. When you feel that food has become tasteless, your body whispers to you: you are full. Stop!

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And finally

Losing excess weight doesn't change your life. Being overweight is not a ban on joy. Stop sweating. Let go and calm down. Love yourself right now, not some non-existent ideal self in the future. Let your body do everything for you.

Start living the life of your dreams right now. You will be surprised when you notice that joyful activities, not related to weight loss, take you more than emptying the refrigerator. One day you will miss a meal just because playing the guitar so captures you that you can not tear yourself away until you finish the final chord.

That the idea for the article will turn you into an obsessed professor banging on the keyboard - and let the food wait.

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