You Know What You are Supposed to do, You Just Don't Do It.

I am a dieting expert. I know every diet out there backwards and forwards and can talk about them in my sleep. I’ve tried almost everything, I think. Some good, some bad. If there is one thing about us fatties, we are experts in the field of diet, nutrition, and fitness, a vast majority of us are..

Wait… what???? Then how come we’re all a bunch of fatties if we know all this stuff??!?!  Simple – we have memorized the facts but can’t apply them to ourselves or fail every time we try to apply them to ourselves. The main culprits here of course being that awful appetite monster we all battle, and the lazy bum in a chair monster we battle.  I think the appetite monster takes first place for most of us, HENCE the reason “bariatric surgery works so well to cure diabetes,” according to medical experts. Well, hell yes it cures diabetes if you take someones appetite and ability to hold more than a couple of tablespoons of food at a time.

Here is how it was explained to me by a doctor once: As an obese person your digestive system is so accustomed to processing such huge quantities of food all the time, that when you take away that volume of food, for a while it is going to trip off the hunger signals to your brain like mad. If you can make it through 30-60 days of not cheating on a diet and eating a very calorie restricted and volume restricted diet, you will reset your hunger signals. You will. Absolutely guaranteed. He used a rather shocking illustration with me so that I could understand this more : In places of the world where there is mass starvation, and aid workers go in with food, it’s not like they can serve a huge plate of rice and beans to everyone. In a starvation situation the digestive system will not be able to handle meals, hence why they will start malnourished people on some tablespoons of liquid nutrient gruel, because when you stop eating for so long, you can’t hold down food very well. Essentially, the same thing takes place with bariatric surgery, the stomach contents are restricted to reset the appetite and ability to consume food.

But this same doctor also told me that no one needs bariatric surgery if they can reset their own digestive system on their own. And as I’m always talking about here, never cheating on your diet is the quickest way to get your body to start responding to food differently within a month or two of starting the diet.

Ok ok ok you say. So what?  Well, you understand the point well if you are saying so what at this point. Knowing what to do and doing it are different activities. It wasn’t until I started doing what I knew to be the right thing that I began to lose weight. It wasn’t until I started DOING that I lost my huge appetite. Doing means NEVER CHEATING. If you cheat, you just extend your pain. Seriously. Every time you want to cheat you have to tell yourself, if I break down and do this, it’s just going to extend the inevitable, which is, I either have to lose this weight now and suffer some of these horrible hunger pangs and headaches or I’m going to pay later. Now or later?

Say to yourself.. just today, just for today I will not cheat, I will not extend my suffering by cheating.