Mind games: how the brain prevents us from losing weight
In pursuit of beauty standards, we often miss the main thing: weight loss begins in the head. All processes in our body are guided in one way or another by the brain. To lose weight, you need to understand your thoughts and the mechanics of psychophysical processes that help us lose weight. And, of course, be in agreement with yourself.
This article is written to help you reboot your consciousness and tune in to the right way to achieve the desired result. So that after a couple of weeks in the mirror reflection you will see a more perfect version of yourself and gain confidence.
But we will talk about everything in order.
To begin with, you need to understand some common psychological aspects that are well known to every person who is steadily losing weight.
I want to lose weight, but I can't stop eating!
Answer yourself the question: why do you want to lose weight? Often, the problem is a lack of motivation. You need to be clear about what you want. Maybe it feels good to wear your favorite clothes? Admire yourself in the mirror? Do men like you?
When you go to the fridge once again at night, think: is it worth sabotaging your sleep? Is this sausage so good that you'll spend the rest of your days self-conscious about it? We have to prioritize what's right.
Obsession with the problem
The more you think about how fat you are, how you need to go on a diet, eat less, etc., the bigger the "disaster" becomes. Having had a hard time staying a week, limiting yourself from food and losing a couple of kilos, you decide to celebrate this with a tub of ice cream or a whole cake.
"Well, what? I can afford it!" is a common misconception. With this reward system, you quickly gain back the weight you had lost with titanic efforts.
A few moments of pleasure erase all your work and turn into weeks of self-abuse. Then you find the strength to go on a new diet that will end in the same way.
Maybe it's time to break out of this vicious cycle of failed diets?
I was able to lose weight, but I couldn't maintain my weight.
Everyone who has ever tried to lose weight knows that this is a relatively simple process. Having gained control over your will, you go on a diet and the weight gradually decreases. But as soon as you return to your normal lifestyle, the weight returns.
There are only two ways to stop this:
- Completely change your attitude towards food. Understand that we eat to live and not the other way around. Reject tasty food in favor of steamed foods: broccoli, Brussels sprouts, chicken breast... And stick to that diet for the rest of your life.
- Use safe stimulants to lose weight. As mentioned above, weight loss begins in your head. It's not just about thoughts, it's also about neural signals that the brain receives when we eat. Sweet, fatty, harmful foods are always very tasty, so the consumption of these products affects the centers responsible for pleasure. Refusing such foods leads a person to become discouraged.
It is not so easy to love healthy food and enjoy it. To break away from the "everything tasty is harmful" attitude and switch to "healthy is tasty" it is necessary to convince yourself of this. And it is not always easy.
Scientists from the Institute of Experimental Dietetics in Mexico took up this issue seriously only in 2024. The study was led by Arturo Matallana, the founder of the concept of psychological slimming. A group of scientists under his leadership found out which psycho-emotional processes affect the perception of the taste of food. Based on the data, a compound was developed that blocks the brain centers responsible for the pleasure of eating.
Arturo Matallana
We need to understand that the brain is deceiving us. We do not feel the true taste of food, under the addiction of harmful foods. Blocking the pleasure receptors leads us to feel the true taste of food and the previous tastes start to seem something disgusting to us.
To prove his words, Arturo Matallana presented the clinical studies of the sensational compound, called GREEN TEA .
It turned out that under the influence of this compound, neural networks do not transmit a signal to the brain that you are losing weight, so there are no feelings of hunger and fatigue, as with other methods of losing weight. GREEN TEA accelerates metabolism, transforms the fat layer into energy and restores the work of internal organs.
The compound restores digestive processes and allows the body to get rid of extra pounds. It burns the most problematic fat deposits and stimulates the proper functioning of the gastrointestinal tract. After the course is over, it is impossible to regain that mass: the body is already programmed to work hard to lose weight and maintain weight.
