Losing Weight the Easy Way-A New Approach


Almost everyone I know would like to lose some weight or, as a minimum, acknowledges that losing some weight would be a good idea for enhancing health and self esteem. There are those who could improve their health significantly by losing 10+ pounds and there are those who almost certainly will die an early, painful death if they don’t lose 20+ pounds. Being overweight or obese is now well recognized for its association with many diseases and early death. Nevertheless, most are in denial and find excuses for postponing year after year any serious effort at losing weight. Moreover, most of them are still in a weight gaining lifestyle. It is hard to understand why losing weight is such a difficult choice to make. It is equally difficult to imagine that having too much food is now a worse problem in first world countries than having too little. In a world where people pray for a cancer cure, a much easier way to save lives would be for everyone to lose weight.
After some researching the problem extensively I discovered a simple, painless method to lose weight. Too good to be true? Read on. I did this by identifying the mechanisms, beliefs, habits, and reasons that cause us to be overweight and recognizing that these causes can all be reversed in a painless, even pleasureful way. If you have any intelligence, the ability and willingnes to think and observe objectively, recognize and accept the truth, and act according to simple, obvious logic, and if you honestly desire to lose weight, then you can lose weight quite easily and pleasurefully. My method is not a diet; not only painless, it actually adds pleasure immediately to your life, enabling you to lose weight and enjoy life even more while doing it. Therein lies the secret, if you insist that it must be a secret. Again, you simply have to recognize, acknowledge, and employ two simple truths and the pleasure that is added.

One truth is well known and proven and one is dangerously incorrect knowledge and belief that most people have. Some of the incorrect “knowledge” that many of us have accepted simply doesn’t make sense when scrutinized objectively.

Two things you need to learn and/or know if you want to lose weight pleasurefully
Surprisingly a simple key to losing weight is held in just two bits of simple, easy-to-apply knowledge. The first is a well known fact, and the second is an untruth that most of us have built in that must be “unlearned”.  If you understand, believe, and apply these two facts, the rest will be easy.

  1. Fact: Our primitive brain influences and even makes many of our decisions for us unconsciously. Over millions of years it evolved to keep us alive. The primitive brain tricks us into eating more than we need even to the point of discomfort, by not telling us when we have had all we should eat until we have gone well beyond that state. This feature had evolutionary advantages in primitive times when the next meal was unpredictable and in doubt. The primitive brain does not know that today food is always readily available and it still thinks overeating can save one’s life. In fact, today, eating too much is killing people.  People will eat until they become uncomfortable and even in pain because of this primitive carryover. This is one of the causes of obesity in advanced societies where unlimited calories are available to most people. The primitive brain tricks us into putting too much food on our plates, taking too much from buffets, and demanding too much in restaurants.

After the conscious brain knows this can it take back control of eating.  Learning to stop eating before your primitive brain gives you that “full” signal, will leave you feeling better after a meal. To truly learn and enjoy the benefits of this fact simply requires paying attention to how you feel by taking conscious control while eating, that is, allowing your conscious brain to outsmart your unconscious or primitive brain.  This can be fortified by recognizing, acknowledging, and enjoying feeling better when you eat less. When you realize that you feel better, you will truly believe that it is better to stop early and you will start doing it, and you will start losing weight.

  1. Fact: Most people believe (the false idea) that eating food prevents wasting it. Eating food does not prevent wasting it. Eating unnecessary food is worse than wasting it and is a serious, unnecessary mistake that makes losing weight difficult.   Unlearning the falsehood can greatly enrich one’s life and bring about weight loss.  Most of us were taught from childhood to “clean our plate”.  Get over feeling guilty about leaving food on your plate.  Of course, it would be ideal if we started with the right portions of food on our plates, a huge “if” that almost never happens. Restaurants serve more than is needed and even in a self serve buffet we always take more than we need, possibly because the primitive brain is making the decision of how much goes on the plate. The amount on a plate should never be considered in deciding how much to eat. We cannot know until we begin eating how much we should eat.  Consequently, one should always leave food on a plate. Stop eating as soon as you realize that you have eaten enough. Leaving food on a plate is really easy to do as soon as you learn and truly believe that it is a good thing to do.

Applying these two bits of knowledge will lead to weight loss, feeling better all of the time, and improvement in one’s health and quality of life. It is not painful; it becomes pleasureful from the very first day.  Why should this be difficult? Applying these two facts will lead to a weight losing lifestyle change that improves the quality and enjoyment of life and is easy to make.  Weight loss does not have to be painful. Concentrate on observing how one feels before, during and after food associated activities. Make choices and decisions based on the observations. Learn to acknowledge and enjoy feeling better when good eating choices are made.

Related Knowledge

  1. The suggestions made here do not constitute a diet. Diets are almost always painful, stressful, and ineffective in the long run. Diets are not effective for reducing weight permanently unless done endlessly. As soon as a diet ends, our established weight returns and sometimes even increases.
  2. People establish for themselves relatively stable and slowly increasing weights that are determined by their lifestyle, i.e. their calorie intake, sleep, exercise, and other more or less important factors. Body weight is further determined by individual body mechanisms, i.e. metabolism, and nervous system. Consequently, as we grow older and metabolism slows, our established weight increases unless we change one of the other factors.
  3. The only proven method for permanent weight loss is change of lifestyle. It is possible to change life style through choice, discipline and monitoring and also through surgery, i.e. stomach stapling, gastric bands, etc. Life style change is the method used by Weight Watchers, which has proven it works as long as one maintains the new lifestyle, which can be challenging. Applying the two facts above constitutes a life style change that will bring about weight loss.
  4. Reducing calorie intake combined with maintenance or increase in exercise either stops weight gain or produces in weight loss.

Incorrect Knowledge and beliefs derived from the above two facts.

  1. In restaurants, we should eat as much as possible to make sure and get our money’s worth.

The reason so many people get this wrong is that is seems logical, but is not. Eating more than is needed by the body is more expensive than eating what is needed and is not a good deal. Even in “All you can eat” restaurants, eating more than your body needs costs more in real terms than eating less than average. Leaving food you don’t really want or need is easy when you realize that saves more money than eating it.

  1. One has to make sacrifices and give up certain foods to lose weight.

Eating exactly the same foods in smaller amounts leads to weight loss. If you are a candy lover, learn to take a bite or two from a candy bar and discard the rest. That is easy to do after you realize it is not a waste of money to throw away uneaten candy. It actually saves money in the long term. Throwing away half a candy bar is so counter intuitive that no one ever considered that it makes perfectly good sense. One does not have to be highly intelligent to recognize this truth.

  1. One feels better after eating a large meal.

When we eat a large meal, eat everything served, go back for seconds, etc, we are almost always less comfortable than we would be if we stopped eating before feeling full. This becomes easy when one acknowledges the fact and begins enjoying the better feelings of not over eating.
The two critical facts listed above are almost common sense and should be easy to believe. Owning them and putting them to use is another matter. Throwing food away is counter intuitive, against our nature, and though it should be easy, it clearly is not. Not wasting food is so ingrained in us that applying this fact can be extremely mentally painful until truly learned to be valid and useful knowledge.

Eating the Right Foods

While the above discussion says nothing about which foods to eat, this is obviously an additional and extremely important health and weight loss factor, and is a different topic. Much knowledge is available concerning what foods one should and should not eat, so there is little need to repeat that here. We need not repeat the health value of fruits and vegetables.  A huge culprit is sugar. Few people realize that in a 12 ounce can of Coke there are over 6 teaspoons of sugar. In general, vegetarians are healthier and live considerable longer than meat eaters. Many people have the mistaken belief that one needs to eat meat. This simply is not true.