Having hard and fast rules about what I will and won\u2019t eat and drink helps me maintain my healthy weight. While my behaviour has changed dramatically, my desires haven\u2019t. I notice, especially when eating with other people who are having desserts when I am not, that I eat more than I need to.<\/p>\n
I was very inspired by a documentary, Forks Over Knives, which, among other things, pushes a plant-based diet as the solution for best health. That wasn\u2019t, however, what resonated with me. Two things did: One, the correlation between the Food and Sex motivators linked to our evolutionary imperative of avoiding pain and increasing our species and the other, how because of the increase in the density of calories in processed food (think about the calorie density of corn syrup relative to cane sugar, for example) that we are all unknowingly consuming more calories. Because we are evolutionarily programmed to seek out high-value foods, those that are protein, vitamin and mineral rich and will sustain us for the longest possible time, our bodies report feeling satisfied when we eat high-quality calories and, conversely, not when we eat junk.<\/p>\n
I am aware that I continue to eat even when I feel full when others around me are still eating. As I\u2019m an All-or-Nothing kind of guy, it is easier for me not to eat at all than to temper my consumption, albeit of \u201cgood quality calories\u201d. My challenge is to find a way of just responding to what I need.<\/p>\n
Another thing that Forks over Knives suggests is the insidious and creeping impact of small increases. A little more today and every day onwards very soon amounts to a lot more. When I look back at the many times I lost weight and regained it, it was because of small increases and loosening of my rules little by little.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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