WE ARE ALL CREATURES OF HABIT

You have resolved to change your eating habits and you mean it. 

Sometimes you succeed but often fail. Why? Not because you're not working hard to change. 

You did not succeed because, simply put, habits are extremely hard to change.

They're hard to change because they're so ingrained, because they're so almost-automatic.

Our minds don't always integrate in the best way possible. Even when you know the right answer, you can't make yourself change the habitual behavior.

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 This process engages the basal ganglia, or the part of the brain located in the pre-frontal cortex that works to start and control movement and emotions. Good habits help us through our day. 

The reward, is the brain’s own personal cue for when it should recall the automatic behavior.

This cue trigger signals to your brain to turn a behavior into an automatic routine like eating potato chips, cookies, cheese and other weight gaining items. 

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Habits are based on a reward/harm ratio. It is helpful to take 20 to 30 seconds before putting the food in mouth to process the risk/harm reward ratio. Impulsiveness has to be controlled for these 20 to 30 seconds. 

Try to think what reward you were looking for when you ate the weight gaining food items.

The reward is "pleasure of eating, taste, decreasing stress, social pressure or festivities". 

​It is easy to gain a pound but takes hours of exercise punishment to lose the same weight. 

But you forgot to consider the possible harm.

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Furthermore, weight gain is associated with Diabetes, High Cholesterol, High Blood Pressure, Heart Attack ,

Snoring and Sudden Death and you lose your physical beauty and sex appeal.

Our life today is essentially the sum of our habits. 

How in shape or out of shape we are? A result of our habits.

How happy or unhappy we are? A result of our habits. 

How successful or unsuccessful we are? A result of our habits.

What we repeatedly do (i.e. what you spend time thinking about and doing each day)

ultimately forms the person we are, the things we believe, and the personality that we portray.

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I recommend that you consider putting on your desk, room and home many photographs:

1. Photograph of when you were slim and beautiful.

2. Your current overweight photograph.

3. Photograph of someone you admire.

4. Photograph of an ambulance going to a hospital.

5. Photograph of mortuary.

6. Photograph of your favorite healthy food items, fruits and vegetables.

7. Photograph of someone inspiring you to lose weight.

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These photographs will serve as daily reminders and will assist you in achieving your desired goals.

Our Clinic can help you lose weight permanently.