Salads are not necessarily the way to go, when you want to lose weight. California Pizza Kitchen sells more than half a dozen salads, with more than 2000 calories each. A tuna salad from Subway can have more than twice the calories of some of their sandwiches. It’s way too easy to order a 1200 […]
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You need a structure that limits calories to lose weight, because most freely feeding plans do not work. Freely feeding on zero fat food doesn’t work, because a bagel is 400 calories, has zero grams of fat, and you can eat a dozen bagels a day or 4800 calories a day – and not lose […]
Cognitive Defusion helps you deal with your carbohydrate cravings by teaching you to ride the horse in the direction it’s going. You can’t control your sweet and starch cravings. You sweet and starch cravings are automatic, something that occurs naturally over time in response to internal and external stimuli. Cognitive Defusion lets you have your […]
Logic and reason don’t work well in dealing with carbohydrate cravings. You can go over all the logical and rational reasons for not eating that chocolate sundae (I don’t want to blow my diet, I want to lose weight for my birthday, I have health problems, etc.), and then dig in. Cognitive Defusion is better […]
My favorite strategy for dealing with sweet and starch cravings is Cognitive Defusion, which comes from ACT or Acceptance and Commitment Therapy. Cognitive Defusion helps you experience your carbohydrate cravings, without giving into them. Your carbohydrate cravings are not going to go away. Carbohydrate cravings are naturally triggered over time by internal (biochemical) and external […]
A psychological strategy or strategies to help you deal with hunger and your sweet and starch cravings is essential for weight loss. 3000 calories a day are a lot more fun than 1000, and if you are going to lose weight, you are going to be hungry and you are going to crave carbohydrates. The […]
One of the keys to successful weight loss is damage control. You can undo a week’s worth of caloric deprivation in a hour of wild binging. People tend to binge on calorie dense carbohydrate – which provides the greatest serotonin kick. Chocolate and cookies and cake and ice cream are all available in sugar-free varieties, […]
Here are my favorite 4 rules for weight loss on a low carbohydrate diet. (1) No beef. (2) No pork. (3) No nuts. (4) No cheese. The issue is calorie and carbohydrate load. These rules can automatically limit your calorie and carbohydrate intake, and provide built-in damage control.
The less you eat, the faster you are going to lose weight. It is always easier to eat nothing at all, than to eat a little. It doesn’t matter what time you eat. It doesn’t matter how often you eat. It matters a great deal if you are eating protein or carbohydrate. The more carbohydrate […]
Binging takes place later in the day, in the afternoon and in the evening, when your liver glycogen supply is getting low. Unless you are already living on a low carbohydrate diet and have depleted your liver glycogen supply, as the day progresses – your sweet and starch cravings are going to increase. Your body […]