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Being Content With Eating
Less
The pleasure of dopamine
has the power to form both healthy and unhealthy behaviors. The dopamine
diet plan will help you to become addicted to eating healthy. You will
form good behaviors by making what is good for you as enjoyable as
possible. Eating spinach because it is healthy when you hate it will not
work. When you make healthy eating an enjoyable, taste-filled
experience, you will want to do it again and again. Neurons and synapses
will form new patterns. Red lights will trigger the desire for juicy
watermelon. Hunger will shout, cantaloupes! The cravings for
unhealthy foods will fade like a bad dream. No more cravings for fat,
salt, sugar and chemicals, the body's biochemistry is rebalanced to a
clean bloodstream filled with vitamins, minerals, enzymes and natural
fruit sugars.
Creating Healthy
Triggers
We associate events and images
with food. These associations become triggers for that food. Hot summer
days can trigger the urge for ice cream. Campfires can trigger the urge
for marshmallows. Baseball games trigger urges for hot dogs. Seeing a
donut store can trigger an urge for coffee. The golden arches of
McDonalds can trigger an urge for a hamburger. Food triggers are worth
millions. A marketer's dream: consumers like rats in a cage, pushing
levers for another fix, programmed by pleasure and willing to pay cash.
Create triggers for the
foods you want to eat. Here is how to do it. Imagine a bright orange
cantaloupe, glistening with beta-carotene and enzymes, ready to nourish
every cell, as good for you as it is low in calories. Imagine enjoying a
plate of chilled cantaloupe slices, sensing peace and comfort coming
over your body. See yourself relishing every bite and being joyful of
God's blessing. See your body being flooded with nutrients and making
you feel so good, so alive. Feel the warmest, most comforting feeling
and connect it with the taste of cantaloupe. See yourself after eating a
plate of chilled cantaloupe slices. Savor the feeling of contentment.
Now when you eat a cantaloupe, enjoy it to the fullest, relishing every
moment. If you do, dopamine will help you to form healthy triggers.
Be careful, some people
have overused this trigger-creating technique and developed a serious
cantaloupe addiction. We are thankful for the 12-step program,
Cantaloupe Eaters Anonymous.
Contentment
Do you feel good about what you
have accomplished? If you are like most of us, the flaws seem gigantic
and the accomplishments seem tiny. After a success we think, That's
no big deal, anyone could have done it. We never stop to allow
ourselves to feel good about our accomplishments. Even in success, we
choose to look at the flaws and beat ourselves up because we are not
meeting some impossible standard. But self-criticism destroys
motivation. Self-criticism destroys the desire to achieve. We feel hurt
and become resentful toward ourselves.
When we don't feel good
about what we are doing, we get discouraged and frustrated. On the other
hand, feeling good about what we are doing gets us enthused, excited and
motivated.
Feel good about the
tiniest of accomplishments. Take the time to enjoy the feeling of
completing a task, sticking to a diet by making a healthy meal,
exercising or just waking up early. Let the emotion of accomplishment
build and be thankful to God. Sense the peace. Sense the feeling of
well-being. Allow yourself to feel good about doing the right thing. Do
not tear down your accomplishments or compare yourself to others. Take
the time in each day to consider your accomplishments. Instead of
looking at the flaws, dwell on the feeling of satisfaction. You deserve
to feel really good. You have done well.
Being Filled with Joy
and Peace
Even in the midst of misery and
unhappiness you can create the emotion of joy. You can choose to be
happy. Make a decision to enjoy the moment. Stop reading for a moment
and create the emotion of joy. Loosen up, wave your hands around, dance,
smile, shout, "yeah!" Sing a happy song. "I've
got the joy, joy, joy, joy down in my heart." See yourself
dancing, laughing swirling in the sun, you're so happy. Let the emotion
build within you, happiness and thankfulness bursting from your heart.
Become flooded with a warm feeling of peace. Take a deep breath. As you
breathe out, all the tension is going. You feel nothing but peace and
joy.
Being Content with
Eating Less
Here's a way to stop overeating.
At the point where you feel that you should stop eating, stop and feel
content. Become aware of how full you are. Let the feeling of
contentment build while being aware of feeling full. Ask yourself, do
you really want to eat more? Now start to clean up or brush your teeth.
If you are still
struggling with wanting to eat more, create the feeling of revulsion to
eating more, then return to creating the feeling of contentment. It is
rare that you will have to do this more than once. It is easy, simple
and fast. Once the compulsive desire is gone, get active to keep your
mind busy.
Being at Peace
Worry builds fear by imagining
the worst. Yet worry changes nothing. It destroys our peace and makes us
feel powerless. Worriers have the most problems and the hardest time
solving them. Problem solvers refuse to worry; they get down to what
they can do, and then do it. Everything seems to work out for them. They
have tolerance, motivation and are generally happy.
If you examine your state
of mind during a refrigerator hunt, you will realize that fear and worry
are often the motivation to eat. We eat to feel good about life. Worry
and fear make us feel out of control, and eating gives us a sense of
being in control. Eating becomes an escape from the dark world of our
thoughts. However, using food as an escape abuses our body and leaves us
feeling powerless.
Refuse to worry. Get the
problem down on paper. Examine the worst possible situation and what you
can do about it. Once you have made your decision, stop worrying and
start thinking healthy, encouraging thoughts. If the desire to worry
surfaces, you can make a stand against it because you have made a
decision.
The Flavor of Hunger
Did you notice that the first
four cookies at the top of the package taste really good, but the ones
at the bottom, 24 cookies later, are sickening? Taste is deadened by
overeating and is stimulated by hunger. The hungrier you are the better
food tastes. The more stuffed you become, the worse food tastes.
Most people quit on a
diet program because they feel deprived. You need to enjoy eating
healthily. Hunger greatly increases enjoyment. Take a chance. Face the
ugly giant of hunger. You will be well rewarded. When the flavor and
enjoyment of food is enhanced by hunger, your brain is getting the
dopamine high and forming attachments to healthy foods.
Dopamine Reduction
Guide
Many who follow this program have
felt guilty because of the intense pleasure and health that they are
experiencing. They felt that it wasn't fair to be living in such an
exuberant state while the rest of the world suffered. If you want to
decrease the amount of pleasure you are receiving from food, we have
laid out a 12-step process to return you safely to the normal world of
eating. It is designed to reduce dopamine levels to almost nonexistence.
(Not to be taken seriously)
- Eat fast so you do not get to taste
the food. Chew no more than three times.
- Do not prepare delicious meals. Try
to eat standing up eating hand-to-mouth out of the fridge or
cupboard.
- Eat stressed out. Try eating while
driving a car. If you are too relaxed, your stomach will be able
to secrete digestive juices. Eat while worrying about a problem.
If you do not have any problems, ask your co-workers if they have
any problems for you to worry about.
- Eat while distracted. Open bills,
watch TV, do homework. Mentally, be somewhere else. If you have no
distractions, just stare blankly into space.
- Eat while feeling guilty about
eating too much. Remind yourself that you are a fat failure. Try
to stare at your excess fat as you eat and imagine it growing.
Guilt is great at reducing motivation.
- Eat when you are not hungry so the
taste buds are dulled.
- Eat super-salty, sugar-filled foods
to numb your taste buds so the natural, delicate flavors of fruits
and vegetables will be powerless to stimulate any taste reaction.
- Increase spoon and fork speed to
feed the mouth as fast as possible. This greatly reduces
enjoyment. Some people find using their hands is the quickest way.
If you can eat this way,
you will receive no satisfaction from eating. There are two small
problems associated with our Dopamine Reduction Guide: the
problems with dieting and its poor health return. The end result is an
obese, diseased, unmotivated individual. The good part is that you have
lots of company.
How
to overcome when you fail and overeat
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