Most people believe that finding the perfect diet will make them lose weight in no time. Well, most people are wrong. It doesn't matter what they choose by diet king, they fail to keep it long term. The secret is not to select the perfect diet, but to work on your eating behavior, this and only this is the key to losing fat.
Food therapy helps to lose weight and more importantly to keep it in an optimal range for a long time. Reflexes lead to impulse eating, further that and bad eating habits, lead to a situation, food was consumed without limits or any second thoughts. This is exactly what behavior therapy tackles, in order to change bad habits and turn them into a healthy, helpful way of thinking and eating.
The therapy is divided into four parts:
• Measure and describe the current feeding process.
• Describe the events that create the need to eat.
• Learn to control the craving for food.
• Eliminate old eating habits and develop healthy new ones instead.
In fact, most of the time, eating is triggered by external stimulation and not as a result of real hunger. They can be developed mentally and physically. The mind could be related to fears, stress, tension, disappointment, etc. The physical could be the smell of fresh bread or the sight of chocolate cream cake at the counter.
Controlling eating behavior means not responding to all types of stimulation. Instead, eat three main meals a day plus three light meals between them. The technique is to draw attention from eating to other activities such as: talking on the phone, playing sports, talking to someone, reading a book or playing a game. This keeps the mind occupied and prevents the urge to eat.
Additional ideas to support behavior therapy:
1. It is better to keep only healthy foods at home. It's an easy way to avoid bad food.
2. Cutting the time to make food will keep the mind less occupied with food thoughts.
3. Drink coffee with the calorie law.
4. It is better to drink a lot of natural tea.
5. Eating slowly has two main positive effects: food is consumed better and hunger disappears by eating less food.
6. If you are hungry for 20 minutes, skip the meal: drink something or have some fruit.
7. Eating should take place in the same place and not in random places.
8. The shopping list should be prepared at home. The key is to love it, no matter what we saw later in the supermarket.
