February 15
Roadblock: I can stay commited to eating well if….I can maintain my habit of starving all day. When this is the only way she had ever lost weight, it was hard for Linda to accept that it hadn’t worked. But, truth be told, after all these years of using this technique, she was now at the highest weight she had ever been. I only connected the dots for myself a while after I had stopped starving all day. I noticed that my night bingeing behavior that had been my Achille’s heel for my entire adult life slowly subsided. Eating enough during the day (especially protein and fat – I had already been doing the veggies) was the only thing to which I could attribute it. I doubt that I am any more evolved. We now understand some of the science that explains the appetite mechanisms at play that invariably connect starving to eventual overeating. Bryan’s “aha” today was the realization that he never really skipped meals as he had thought…..he just piled them all on top of each other at the end of the day!
Safe detour: Depends on your goal. Want to just balance your weight? Then don’t eat more than it takes to be your goal weight, even if you eat all your food at night. Good luck with that though. Most people I know can’t pull this off. Of course, this may be because they are successful at it and therefore never became my clients. But I think that most people (to their character credit and unlike me), are not vain enough to continue to binge at night and just do whatever it takes during the day override their appetite mechanisms so they can maintain the starving and balance off the damage. Most people who starve all day end up eating way more than the calorie allotment for the weight that they want to be and thus are wearing those extra calories. This is the most common eating pattern of the morbidly obese population, BTW…so clearly not working. Better solution: don’t starve. See my blog entry “Stop Dieting and Act As If”, or “I Finally Figured Out That Starving Is Not My Best Skill” for some ideas and ways to get out of this seductive and ineffective cycle.
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