Dieting can make anyone crazy. If you have more than twenty pounds to lose, trust me, you are a candidate for lunacy. The problem is that there are so many products, so many experts, so many diets, and so many forms of diet torture, that your brain can easily turn to mush if you spend too much time trying to decipher which is right for you. Many people find that it is practically impossible to follow one particular diet plan for any length of time. Those who can do it should be applauded. (But are their brains pulps from the effort?)
There is a solution – of sorts. Combinations. Yes, you can take what you like from all sources and form your own do-able diet. (Well, except for the ice cream diet. That can’t be right. Too good to be true and all that.) But once you decide just what foods you plan to eat at any given time or place, there is a trick offered by the Weigh Down Diet (a diet that is spiritual in nature) that is invaluable. Eat only half. Absolutely everything you gobble from your plate should be in half portions.
Through all the media, you’ve heard about smaller portions and added smaller meals. This truly does work. The Weigh Down Diet advises to eat only ’til you’re full. Hmmm. That’s hard to do when you don’t know what that feeling is like until you’re stuffed. So, the solution is not to trust your mush-like brain. Cut everything in half. Eat anything you want, but only half of it.
1) Eat only when your stomach is hungry, not your brain. What does this mean? It means, wait until your stomach growls. That’s right, no matter what your brain says, wait ’til your stomach tells you it’s time to eat. Make no mistake; this is very difficult to do. There is a little person inside your brain jumping up and down trying to coerce you into eating before
your stomach says it’s time!
2) Eat all day long. Snack, snack, snack. Hold on, though. You can’t possibly think that fun snacks are included here. No. You can eat all day, but it must be healthy foods. Fruits, vegetables, protein. The difficult part about either of these choices is that for the first three weeks, oftentimes, you see no results on the scale at all. It could very well be three weeks before you start dropping weight by eating half portions only when your stomach growls or by snacking all day. But once that third week passes, you should begin to lose weight. It’s do-able!
Trying to achieve weight loss will always have a part in making our crazy lives even more chaotic, but if you can adopt just a couple good habits at a time (remember, twenty-one days to make or break a habit), you, too, can lose weight-without turning your brain to mush.