Reframing is the third technique you can use to keep yourself from cheating on a diet. Reframing is looking at and
solving a problem, from a different point of view. Here’s how to use Reframing for weight loss. In order to stay
on a diet without cheating, you need to be able to control your hunger, control your emotional eating, control
your cravings, and control your recreational eating. The problem is you can’t control hunger. Hunger is automatic
and increases over time when you don’t eat. The problem is you can’t control your sweet and starch cravings.
Sweet and starch cravings are automatic and increase over time, especially when you don’t eat carbohydrates.
The problem is you can’t control your emotions, because emotions are an automatic response to what happens to
you in life. If you get slapped in the face, it hurts and you cry. If you get tickled, it feels good and you laugh. The
problem is you can’t control your desire to recreationally eat, because recreational eating is an automatic
response to boredom (or to eating, once you start eating, it’s hard to stop), and recreational eating increases over
time. The longer you go without recreational eating, the more you are likely going to graze. So, if you can’t
control your hunger – and you can’t control your emotions – and you can’t control your cravings – and you can’t
control your desire to recreationally eat – what can you do? How can you ever stay on a diet? You stay on a diet
by not putting food in your mouth. That’s Reframing. Read it again, until you get it. More tomorrow.