Do You Use Your Human Nature To Lose Weight Permanently?

We humans are fascinating creatures, aren’t we? And one of our key differences to animals is: We are able to observe ourselves, an ability usually called “consciousness”.

There is a lot going on lately around the themes of “being conscious” and “being in the moment” and “being present”. I don’t know, if these ideas sound a bit “woo-woo” for you or not- there is always something to learn, so let’s see what our ability to observe ourselves has to do with losing weight permanently.

If a private investigator watched your eating, your physical activity, even your emotions leading to food choices: Would he be able to tell you what your habits are, how you could improve your eating patterns, how to better copy with emotionally challenging situations?

You bet he could. In fact, we are often too immersed in our activities to be able to notice what is really going on with us. However, isn’t it important to notice what you are eating, how you move your body, how you react to your emotions?

So, awareness is a key to lose weight permanently.

Awareness has another huge benefit to it. Let’s say, you feel appetite for ice cream. Being aware of this appetite puts you in the position to be an independent observer of yourself. What in tune allows you to evaluate if you really want and need the ice cream.

It really helps for healthy weight loss to observe yourself from a neutral position of “I am aware I am currently doing/feeling X”.