Is it possible to lose weight without dieting? Easy! The recipe is so simple that few people believe in its effectiveness. Only a few come to it through a long thorny path of trial and error. Our consultant, a specialist in the correction of eating behavior, Kelly Morgan, shared with us three rules for losing weight without dieting

The most important thing in following this recipe is to understand why the three rules do not work. The answer to this question is the solution to the problem. Having answered this question, you can stop thinking about diets and follow only three simple rules. Here are the rules.

Eat when you are hungry. To do this, you need to learn to feel your hunger. I do not mean strong, so-called wolfish hunger. On the contrary, when hunger is very strong, when your hands are shaking and you almost faint, when you reach a state of hypoglycemia, this is very dangerous for the body. In this state, we usually eat much more. We are talking about the feeling of hunger when we feel that the stomach is telling us: “Hey, put something in me!” At the same time, our taste buds and sense of smell become more acute, it seems that we directly feel the taste of the food whose smell we catch. It is important to understand that the feeling of hunger is always physiological. If we do not eat when we are hungry, we eat in order to feel something or, on the contrary, not to feel something. We eat away some of our desires, problems and needs. If we eat out of a physiological feeling of hunger, our body will always tell us when it is necessary to do this specifically for our body. Moreover, if you listen to your body a little more, it will tell you at the moment of hunger what food will be the best for you now. After all, none of us, unfortunately, can take a test every day to see what microelements we need. But our body can definitely explain this if we are in contact with it. And our body talks to us through food, telling us what it needs and what it lacks.

Stop when you are full. It would seem that this is a very simple rule. But for people in our region, whose ancestors went through the war, who were raised by grandmothers who knew what it was like to starve, it is very scary to stop, leaving food on the plate. When we stop, feeling full, a lot of unconscious guilt awakens. But if we understand that food is needed for our body – and it is needed only for our body – then we can stop when we are full.

Enjoy your food. This is probably the most important rule – enjoy while eating. What does it mean to enjoy? It means that when you take food, you are in contact with this food. You spend time with this food. It means that you smell it, feel its structure, you travel with the taste of each piece. Maybe it sounds romantic, but this is how our physiology is built. If we look at food, smell it, chew it for a long time, feeling its structure, how its taste is revealed by saliva, if we are in contact with it for a long time, then it is digested better. Physiologists still do not know how this happens, but the taste of food changes if we “travel” with it for a long time. People who eat away problems, eat a lot of food, blame themselves for eating a piece of chocolate, but if they allow themselves to “travel” with this piece of chocolate at that moment, they will need much less. Because when you enjoy food, you enjoy it bodily, not mentally. Enjoy not what’s on your plate, but what’s in your mouth.

Food is what our body needs and only our body needs. In order to understand how much food we need, we have a strong feedback system from the body: a neural connection system that tells us whether the stomach is full or if it would not hurt to put something in it. And so our body knows exactly how much food we need and when we need this food. A person, as a rule, gains weight when he relies on anything except this knowledge of his body: on any dietary paradigm, on any advice from smart people who have gone through everything, on anything that television, radio or the press says. If a person splits off from the needs of the body, then he gains excess weight and the need to go on a diet.