How to lose weight? Many people face this question. The main reason for weight gain is the "wrong" way of life of modern man. I put” wrong “in quotation marks because” right “and” wrong " are relative terms.
It just so happens that excess food is an unusual condition for a person. Throughout human history, and long before his appearance, one who consumed a lot of calories — that was the biggest clever and generally well done.
From the point of view of our evolutionary experience, excess weight is an undoubted success, because the individual has achieved almost impossible.
In the past, to get fat you had to be the most intelligent, cunning and strong. Now, however, things have changed, but not our evolutionary program, which tells us that caloric intake is a good thing.
That is why all the most delicious leads to excess weight, because delicious for us — means high-calorie. That is why we love sweet, fried, flour, fat and so on.
Even if scientists create doughnuts that are low-calorie, but just as tasty, they will not be able to deceive our body.
Of course, the first few times we will eat them with pleasure, but then we will not want to eat them. The body will quickly realize that he was fooled, we will want normal fatty donuts.
How to lose weight correctly?
The situation would be hopeless if it weren't for our big brains. Fortunately, humans have large frontal lobes, which have been created by evolution to regulate our eating behavior.
They can inhibit almost any brain activity. Any person can do it, if he explains himself for what.
The first and most important thing to do is to calculate how many calories you consume per day. To do this, you should start to record all portions of food, even the smallest, and then compare with your daily norm. Usually it is about 2000 kcal.
The second — it is impossible in any case strongly to starve. When a person begins to starve himself, he turns on the survival program, which is very difficult to fight, and do not need.
Our frontal lobes are capable of defeating it, but such a victory is called anorexia.
We should eat five times a day, while not exceeding our daily norm. This will allow you not to configure themselves against own organism. That's all you need to do to lose weight.
If you exercise, run, you can just eat more, because your daily rate will grow. Forget about all the newfangled diets, all you need is to keep your calorie intake at a normal level.
Psychological preparation for weight loss.
Third. When we lose weight, we inevitably feel craving for food. This is perfectly natural and impossible to get around. It can only be accepted. But it passes quickly. A man gets used to everything.
What is hunger? In fact, it's just a signal that gives us our nervous system that it's time to eat. We need to learn how to interpret this signal in the direction we need.
It's easy enough. Subjectively, hunger feels like a vacuum inside. We just feel physically that we need to throw something there. So what? What happens if you don't throw anything in there?
Hunger will simply recede in 30-40 minutes, if you do not concentrate on it. Correctly think so: "Want eat? Well, let him want, I have other things to do than think about it." This feeling is not so terrible in a physiological sense. We often have to endure much more unpleasant things, especially women.
In addition, you can learn to perceive a weak hunger even as a pleasant feeling. From my own experience, I know that it is quite pleasant to feel an empty stomach and lightness in the body, which appears at the same time.
Of course in this, too, need a measure. In any case, you can not try to accelerate the process of weight loss. It is enough to reduce your calorie intake to your normal level. Then you will lose weight at the most optimal pace and naturally stabilize the weight.
The second important point is motivation. Motivation is not about berating yourself for being weak. Motivation is the answer to the question, for what? Go to the mirror and imagine yourself slim, the way you want to look.
Imagine that you have already achieved this. Someone promised you that. But on the condition that you do not overeat. It's kind of a contract that you'll be slim(slim) in a year if you do it right. It is enough to observe the contract.