I’d love to hear more, have been in a constant battle since lockdown with this.
I am happy to help, I can post a few short excerpts from the book that are the main points and you can ask me any questions you have.
In a nutshell your body can already control its own weight, it is just that we don’t listen to it.
Instead we listen to people telling us what to eat and when. Our body knows better.
For example, when you are hungry it is a specific hunger, sometimes you are hungry for something sweet ,something salty, something dry or something wet.
So why eat something that doesn’t match you specific hunger. Your body is indicating what it needs. If you eat something else, you body will still be wanting what it needed and so you will eventually eat the right thing. But you arte something else first.
When you are hungry, eat whatever it is that you genuinely feel like.
Most people say “ok but if I do that I will live off chocolate”. But if you crave chocolate, eat some!
Eat a small portion of it and come back to the rest in about 10 minutes. Your body won’t still be craving chocolate. If you don’t eat the chocolate when you crave it, you body will continue to crave it until it actually gets some.
The other basic thing is, if you are not hungry, don’t eat, wait until you get hungry.
The “hunger sensation” replaces the need to calorie count.
If you are not hungry then your body still has some food to process.
Think of it this way, if you eat more than you need, your body will store the excess until it needs it.
When you no longer have any food in your stomach to process, your body will start to consume your fat reserves. Isn’t that exactly what you want? Your body is converting your fat into energy, you would feel that sensation when it happens. That is the sensation that we call hunger.
So forget calorie counting.
Do you know how they calculate calories? They put the item into a glass test tube surrounded by water then set fire to it. They measure the rise in temperature. Calories are a measure of heat!!!
Your body doesn’t actually burn food. Some of those calories come straight out without being used.
What would be a substance that contains the most calories? Try burning petrol, dynamite etc and measure the heat given off, it would be huge. But if you ate dynamite or drank petrol, you definitely would not put weight on!!! I rest my case.
I can send more things like this, such as why sugar is not fattening (bear with me on that) and why we put weight on when we drink alcohol.
I hope this helps.
Steve B