Many people ask me what they could do to control their weight. I often see that people are worried about that but the question is whether they really want to actively do something about their weight.
The first thing is that you need to learn to be happy and satisfied. Once I heard someone say ‘Everybody can lose a little bit.’ I do not agree with this attitude at all, because it makes everybody feel as though they are too big. What exactly is the parameter for that? Who are those who should lose weight? In my eyes, you should be healthy and feel happy and good with your body. Obviously, if you suffer physically from your weight, you need to do something about it. If you are absolutely unhappy and you are really overweight, you need to do something, too. Only talking about it however does not help! Only complaining and thinking that you may change something someday does not help! You have to get active. Find out the reasons for your overweight and make a change.
The reason for being overweight is mostly eating more than the body requires. Who doesn’t like to eat delicious and tasty food? The problem starts when eating becomes a habit. People who have the habit of eating always have something in their mouth. Whenever they see something eatable, they get attracted by it. Stop this habit and stop it now! Remove food from your working desk, your living room and your bedroom. Food should only be in the kitchen, so that you don’t get tempted to just stretch out your hand, wherever you are, and start eating.
Once, after hearing my opinion, an overweight person told me ‘You don’t know how much fun eating is!’ This person obviously thought that anybody who would give such advice would not know how much joy it can be when you put a delicious piece of food into your mouth and chew it. But I do know how that feels! I love eating and I love cooking. I love preparing my food, seeing and smelling how it becomes something that would not only fill your stomach but leave you with the satisfaction of having eaten something really nice. I do not however do that the whole day long. I know my body and I know when I am hungry. This can be different for different people and according to how their daily routine looks like but I always recommend having a regular eating schedule so that your body knows when it will get food.
Eating is fun, no doubt, but it is not fun anymore when it becomes a habit. You don’t even realize when something goes into your belly, how could that be fun? Additionally you need to see the consequences. When you eat and you get joint pain because of it or you have diabetes because of it, the fun is gone! Eating cannot be fun when it causes you pain, physically and mentally. So eat when your body asks for it, not all the time!
We talk about discipline in many areas of life. I believe discipline is very important and necessary in our nutrition, too. Eat when you are hungry. Hunger can be in the eyes and in the mind, too, not only in your belly. Learn to distinguish that. You need to ask your stomach whether it demands food or not. Even while you are at a meal, ask yourself if you really need a second or third serving. Maybe it is only your eyes and your mind!
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i often have the impression that some people confuse fun in eating with the pure urge to put something in their mouth and chew. It has a satisfying effect – chewing gums prove that! it calms your nerves and gives you a good feeling to chew on something. At some point you get addicted to that chewing and you want to always have something in the mouth…
When people are thinking about how to lose weight, they always wish to lose it from one day to the next and with a minimum of efforts. Of course a diet doesn’t need to clobber you, but you do need a will of iron. The best diet is when you don’t even realize that you renounce some food. This means that a diet is nothing else then a healthy way of cooking and eating. And healthy can also be tasty. Once you get used to it, you’ll see how easy it is 😉