Please Please Please don’t do it again! No more New Year’s resolutions!! Stop doing that to your self! You don’t deserve it! So don’t do it! Re-Choose YOU!!!!
It is a proven statistical fact (Per David Kessler former commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration) that foods high in fat, salt and sugar alter the brain's chemistry in ways that compel people to overeat. These foods stimulate the brain to release dopamine, the neurotransmitter associated with the pleasure center. In time, the brain gets wired so that the dopamine pathways light up at the mere suggestion of these foods, such as driving past a fast-food restaurant, and the urge to eat grows insistent. Once the food is eaten, the brain releases opioids, which bring emotional relief. Together, dopamine and opioids create a pathway that can activate every time a person is reminded about the particular food. This happens regardless of whether or not the person is hungry. Lay's Potato Chips -- "Betcha can't eat just one" -- is scientifically accurate.
In the past, much of the scientific research around overeating has been physiology, i.e., “what's going on in our body." Science is now beginning to place their focus on what's going on in our brain and its reaction to food. I am here to say it is our EMOTIONS and THOUGHTS that get us to make the choice that will affect our physiology and brain chemistry! This new approach in science is so very important and serves as a wonderful answer to why, why why am I fat!? Asking why is important but “why?” can only take you so far. For me, why never helped with how! How do I not throw myself away today? How do I not disconnect from me and put the fork down? When I was 260lbs busting out of a size 24, why, why, why was never a solution! I knew 2 pizzas and 6-8 candy bars were making me fat but I just could not stop eating! When I embraced how, how, how do I live my life without the food and excess weight I really started to move down the scale and have loved living in my size 6 body for over 20 years (in spite of all life’s trials and tribulations!)
In conclusion let me restate my theme—my mantra. You will hear it again and again because it shed my 100+ pounds 20 years ago and has kept it off since. What is it? 95% of why you’re fat is created in your mind! You heard me right. The other 5% is solely the type of food you choose to put into your mouth! Thoughts+emotions=Action. 2+2=4. Simple math. Without the plus sign you won’t get an equation.
In other words, change your thoughts and your body will follow!
Next week: The Power to Re-choose…Re-choosing YOU!
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Tuesday, January 5, 2010
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