well hopefully I can give you the secret to sticking to a diet. I am a counsellor and hopefully this will help please read all of my answer even if it is long and if you are really struggling with eating far too much.
The problem is usually not about the diet...you most probably know heaps of different diets you could go on (weight watchers, jenny craig, csiro diet etc) the difficulty lies on the self control necessary to maintain a diet. Keeping busy doing voluntary work even will help you to distract you during the day, especially in an environment where you can only eat at certain break times. The secrets are usually 3 fold to maintaining the self control.
1-cognitive-what you think, changing what you think is important - keeping you mind focussed on other things other than food - saying positive affirmations "I will only eat 3 small meals a day, in between I will fill my stomach up with heaps of water and diet drinks." Saying these positive affirmations and affirmations of your own will help.
2- behavioural, keeping you body active is a way of keeping your mind focussed on other things. Look at you behaviour , what triggers your eating, is it watching tv, is it sitting at home all the time, is it lack of work. Restrict your eating to a certain place, such as at the table at a set meal time. this will help resist the temptation to eat in the lounge, or snack around the house. I will only eat at the table whilst in this house.
3- is the most useful - external measures, environment is a big help or restriction to your eating patterns. Where you are, do you walk by Mcdonalds all the time, do you have money in your wallet all the time (to tempt you to buy fast food). If you dont have the self control and have spent most of you life trying to find it then you need to change your focus, use outside measure to beat your self control problem.
*lock yourself in a room during certain hours of the day,
*give all your money to someone whom you trust who will pay your bills for you so that you dont have any money to buy fast food,
lock your fridge, kitchen, and or cupboards and dont keep the key yourself cause you know what will happen, cant trust yourself. *
*Handcuff your hands behind your back during certain hours of the day or get a friend or flatmate to be your body guard and to keep you out of the kitchen.
*Find youself a good fencing mask, or hockey helmet, attach some wire mesh to it and put a padlock on it so that you cannot possibly get any food into your mouth. then get a friend to unlock it at meal times and to supervise the amount you eat and drink whilst it is unlocked. This works wonders however it does need constant supervision just in case you need emergency treatment or Resusitation - CPR.
You need to find a measure to keep you away from food, lock yourself up, etc... until your stomach gets used to eating a more reasonable amount of food. It usually takes about 3 weeks of locking yourself up before your body realises it doesnt want any extra food and your stomach will shrink.
Your stomach is stretchy so if you are keeping stuffing big amounts of food in it then it will ask for the same amount tommorrow and the next day and the result is that you will find it difficult to resist it tommorrow. A dietician also said once that often our bodies can confuse the message of need for food for need for water. We drink far too many juices, fizzy drinks and so our bodies get programmed to ask for food in order to get water cause it is not getting enough water. IF you dring enough water you can also fill your stomach up so much that it will assist with eating cravings. You have just recieved $200 worth of therapy for nothing so please done ignore this, number 3 is what most people who are having constant obesity issues need. People who are near their goal weight should not use this method.
Some people have such a weakness with food that they have to live with locked cupboards permanently.
2006-06-14
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