The Body is craving for pleasures from food, the logic calculates why it should restrict them, the willpower enforces the logically calculated steps, few weeks later – the harmful excessive weight is gone. The willpower gets tired and takes a…
Steps to master the mindful eating (a key to a healthy satiety)
Mindful eating is a skill that require some effort before it becomes automatic and subconscious. The first step is to decide to eat with a full attention on the food and the process of eating. It might sound simple, but…
Mindfulness and mindful eating
Mindfulness is a state of mind when it is concentrated on the present moment, instead of wondering into the past or future. Mindful eating is being totally concentrated on the eating instead of thinking about something else. It sounds simple,…
The art of satiety – the art of eating with satisfaction.
Eat when you want, what you want and as much as you want and have a healthy weight. Does it sound like an unachievable and unrealistic idea. The keys to a healthy weight are in healthy satiety and appetite. Eating…
Do exercises alone result in a weight loss?
Physical exercises are extremely beneficial for our health from multiple perspectives. But, if we are strictly looking at the weight loss/weight management effect of the exercise, the answer is somewhat surprising and not straightforward. There is no doubt that strenuous…
Appetite – hedonic versus physiologic
It appears that humans have hedonic and physiological appetite. At times it might be very difficult to separate one from another. One of the way to do so is to ask yourself a question – “am I looking for food…
How do we form intuitions?
Most of the time our subconscious intuitions are the result of our previous conscious experiences that over time became subconscious. For example – driving a car for an experienced driver involves a lot of intuitive subconscious decisions and actions. When…
Intuitions versus Logic – the basic concepts
Intuitions are mysterious urges that arrive within us and pompt us for one or another decision, one or another action. Intuitions appear to control our appetite as well. The latest psychological studies indicate that we use two systems when it…
Food preference and the past experiences
If you have an aversion or a dislike to a certain food, there are at least three potential causes that may have created that. 1. You had in the past a really bad experience which was caused by that particular…
Intuitions versus logic
The body is craving for pleasures of food, the logic dictates the reasons why it shouldn’t have them. The willpower supports the logic – the intake restrictions are sustained for a period of time – the excessive weight is gone.…