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…
Emotions and anchoring
Every time we experience an extreme emotion, our Body looks for clues what it is related to, it wants to link that emotion to the event in the environment, which may not be necessarily be related to the experienced emotion.…
Basal metabolic rate
Is an amount of calories your body burns in the rest state just to maintain the physiologic functions. For average sized humans it’s around 1600-1800 calories/day for women and men correspondingly. Check your BMR at http://www.bmi-calculator.net/bmr-calculator/ This number is not…
Satiety and food
Food is obviously supposed to deliver to our body energy and nutrients. For many of us that are heavier than we should be, the important role of food that we often ignore is satiety. I think satiety depends on many…
Mindful eating tricks
Eat like this is the last meal of your life, appreciate your food like it is the most delicious and unique and the most expensive meal in the whole world. Trick number one – slow down. Designate a special time…
Weight loss Goal
Shouldn’t be the number or word, it should be an image, sound, may be smell or even taste… You have to communicate to your Body clearly what kind of body you want to have, but your Body doesn’t have the…
Imagination is the language of subconscious
It is a statement that I borrowed from one of the old hypnosis books. Think about that – our Body reacts to the environment – temperature, sounds, images, smells etc. Our Body does not understand words, words are understandable only…
Fats as macronutrients
Fats have earned unfair reputation as being unhealthy and the one responsible for the obesity… It is not true. The only negative side of fats from the weight management prospective is the fact that most fats are energy dense, meaning…
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.…