Saturday, June 25, 2011

Training your brain to lose weight

Fighting my own self to lose weight has been the most difficult part. You must have also experienced the desire to eat a chocolate or dessert which you know will cause you a week’s dieting. You fall for this temptation when a colleague at your office or a friend offers you high carbohydrate food. You try to resist it but at the end you eat it. The happiness of eating such food will only last till the last bite and afterwards you will start to regret eating that food. You feel guilty about it but you cannot do anything to undo it, as unfortunately life doesn't come with an undo button. I will suggest you to think this sentence in your mind “life doesn't come with an undo button and so does my diet plan” when you find yourself falling for the tempting food.


One technique to make your will power stronger is that changing the files of your brain. You must be thinking I have gone nuts and brain is not a machine which contains files that can be changed.
But in reality our brain has some strongly held believes which can lead us to actions we do in our daily life. To cut the story in short, when you are about to fall asleep remind yourself that eating unhealthy food is the only hurdle to weight loss. When you are about to fall asleep your brain goes in alpha state which is more receptive state of brain for taking notes to add in your strong believes. When you remind yourself the goal of weight loss in that brain state, your brain enters this thought in strongly held believes. By doing this every day before falling asleep will change your brain files and will help you stick to your diet plan more strictly. When someone offers you any unhealthy food, your brain will not only warn you before eating it but will also stop you from eating it.

If you have any confusion regarding brain state I mentioned, more information is available on http://www.biotele.com/Brain%20States.htm

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