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Weight loss begins in the head!

Is it normal to feel a constant hunger? Seek constantly eating or eating large quantities of food at each meal?

If you belong to the category of persons who can not control their appetite, big eaters, suckers or bulimia, the mere fact of following a diet will not solve your problem. The diet will be experienced as deprivation and will bring a state of frustration, which will ultimately adversely affects the overall health and there will be a resumption of weight after stopping the diet. Wanting to overeat is not physiological, or natural or normal. Remember that the act of eating has designed unique and essential to feed our bodies. The real needs of the body of nutrients are much smaller than what most of us eat daily.

If you accept the fact that appetite too is abnormal, then you decide that diet alone will not solve your problem completely control weight.

Research undertaken by scientists on the stress state that our thoughts, our states of mind, our moods, whether conscious or unconscious, act directly on our health, and are certainly responsible for at least 80 % of our diseases. For example being constantly worried may affect our health as a stomach ulcer, hypertension, or weaken our immune system. These different emotions or mental states act on a point in the brain very important because it acts itself directly or indirectly on all functions and organs of our body and all functions, including hunger and blood sugar blood.

Act directly at these “mental states” we will find a physiological appetite, ie an appetite meets our needs real food.

Mental states disruptive and provocative stress are numerous and generally difficult to identify.
This may be the apprehension or fear. This fear may be determined by a specific fact, but also more general and can be fully conscious or simply unconscious.

But it can also be envy, jealousy, love, hate, emotional problems, sexual frustration, and much more! Psychoanalysis seeks to find and identify these problems, but it may be long and very expensive!

One of the best ways to control stress and its harmful effects is to practice a relaxation technique. Many studies have demonstrated beyond a shadow of a doubt the effectiveness of these methods and the control they can exercise on the mind and the physiology of the body.

These techniques do not allow us to identify the stressors, but to eliminate its harmful effects. They can make us great service in search of a normal appetite. In freeing ourselves of our tensions, they disturb our center more hunger, and our blood sugar undergoes less variation.

These techniques are numerous but generally have the same effect, provide a great inner calm, whose physical consequences are the following:
decreased muscle tone
decrease in oxygen consumption
decreased heart rate, etc..

Relaxation is a very effective method to fight against stress and can help you control your appetite.

Relaxation.

The method uses dynamic © Psychosomatics, among others, techniques developed by Marcel Rouet, a former bodybuilder very popular in France. His method was so effective that in a short time many centers, called Psycho-Center, applied it throughout France and other European countries.

There are many methods of relaxation, but Psychosomatic Relaxation is probably one of the easiest and most effective, especially when adjusted for weight control.

Suggestion.

The ultimate goal of any relaxation session is to bring your mind to its most suggestible state. What is a suggestion and what is its purpose?

It has been discovered, there is already a lot of time to this, the mind does not differentiate between a real experience and the very strong imagination. In other words, the suggestion is to penetrate heavily and without judging, an idea in our mind so that it be accepted as a reality for granted.

We can make suggestions to the waking state, but it’s much more difficult, because the mind has in this state, its critical. But we can give the example of the placebo (dummy drug, which is actually a sugar pill). If the patient believes that the placebo is a drug, it will be a real therapeutic action! That suggestion.

However it is in a state of deep relaxation, when the brain emits waves “alpha” that we are most suggestible. How to use the suggestion in the problem of feeding behavior?

Initially we already have the effect of relaxation on the center of our appetite. This is already a point of learning. We can now strengthen us in suggesting the idea of changing our eating habits.

Fat not the only thing that is what is on the plate

Food on the plate

Purists claim that the only thing fat is what stays on the plate. But do not go to such extremes. To maintain weight loss nutritionists say it is better to leave the table a little hungry and eat at least five times a day, but in small amounts.

Thus, the metabolism is kept active and prevent the body, deprived of food for hours, “scared” and tends to “store” anything that gets in anticipation of further periods of fasting.

The Antioxidant
The term antioxidant has long burst into common parlance, among the richest sources of this is the dimetalaminoetanol, present in many foods and, more particularly, in oily fish.

Antioxidants maintain a relentless fight against free radicals, which in turn are produced by cellular oxidation, while helping the body to boost the immune system.

When the ratio of free radicals increases in an uncontrolled way affects the DNA of cells and contributes to the onset of cardiovascular disease and premature aging.

Bad food, bad habits, such as snuff and alcohol, pollution, stress, lack of exercise and many other factors contribute to increased free radicals in the body.

A vegetarian diet

 vegetarian dietA vegetarian diet is an alternative way of eating. Is to eliminate meat and fish from our diet. Its health benefits are many and its dangers too numerous, if not followed a balanced diet with variety of foods.

Any diet, including vegetarian, you need planning and guidance. Before you opt for this kind of diet is best advice and see if the organism is in a position to take such a drastic change of food.

A HEALTHY DIET
A vegetarian diet is, in principle, a very healthy diet. Among its many benefits is to rid the body of toxins, making it advisable even if it is only for one or two weeks a year.

The level of urea decreases with this diet, so it’s great for people with kidney problems. Lowers cholesterol levels and prevent diabetes. It is very helpful for those with rheumatoid arthritis or cardiovascular problems. It has antioxidant properties, increases vitality, makes you lose weight and beautify skin and hair.

All these miracles have to be accompanied to materialize, a change of habits. Farewell to alcohol, coffee, tea and snuff. And welcome to the exercise and a healthier lifestyle.

A balanced vegetarian diet, complete and under supervision of a nutritionist, is good for anyone and any age. Pregnant women, infants, children and adolescents may also follow safe provided you do not miss on this diet all the nutrients needed for the specific demands of your body.