Well here we are once again, the start of a new year and new found goals to
lose weight, shape up and eat healthy BUT many will fail within 2 weeks of sticking to their commitments. Cravings will be the culprit for so many failures. Cravings are caused by addiction.
People who try to quit smoking find themselves craving not the smoke but the "feeling" they get from nicotine. People who try to quit drugs crave the high. People who try to
lose weight crave the "feeling" they get when they eat carbs. Funny thing is in most cases the foods high in carbs that we consume aren't "delicious" just as smoke isn't "delicious". Think about it, what does pasta by itself taste like? Or rice, or grains? It's not the flavors we crave it's the release of Dopamine in our brains that we crave. Dopamine is "the feel good hormone" which gets released into our brains when we eat or drink foods or beverages that spike our blood sugar.
The reason most people will fail at their
weight loss goals this year and the next and the next is because they simply do not understand the vicious circle of cravings and how to stop them.
If you truly want to reach your
weight loss goal this year you must control the release of dopamine into your brain. It's not hard to do, simply remove all the carbs from your diet! If you drop your "net carb" intake to no more than 20 grams per day YOU WILL SUCCEED!
There's no such thing as a little cheating. It will take a couple of weeks to clean your system before the cravings disappear, trust me they will go away....BUT as soon as you stick that potato chip or sweets or any high carbs into your mouth BAM!!!!!! the cravings will begin again, and again and again.
For those of you who have read FAT TO SKINNY Fast and Easy you know exactly what I'm talking about. You also know all the foods that you must avoid, how to read labels, how to calculate net carbs and how to replace all those high carb foods with delicious low carb foods. For those of you who haven't read my book you're running down the highway without a road map, this WILL cause you to crash.
Reading up on Low Carb eating from my book or many other sources will guide you through treacherous territory. I urge you to educate yourself as to how our bodies really function before you begin your quest.
Failure causes more than "failure" it also negatively effects our self esteem and self confidence. Where success results in the positive. side of both.
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Happy New Year!
