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  • In order to lose weight or maintain a healthy weight, you need to understand the reasons people are overweight:
    • the incentives they feel for maintaining a healthy weight (younger & dating-->more careful about what you're eating)
    • the food they're eating
    • the food choices of the people around them
    • the amount of sleep they're getting (less sleep-->more stress / cortisol-->more eating)
    • the amount of physical activity they do in a day (office job-->less physical activity)
  • also, talking about "going on a diet" is absurd if your goal is to keep the weight off. In order to maintain a healthy weight you need to permanently change the foods you are eating.
  • Here's an interesting experience I had:
    • One time I was in a super-market and on a whim bought a package of Oreos and three pints of Haagen-Dazs. I ate all that stuff over the course of two days. Before I bought the Oreos/ice-cream I was very, very good at telling what my body wanted when I felt a particular craving. But in the days after I ate the cookies/ice-cream, my ability to detect what my body needed was a little messed up: for example, I would go a few hours without drinking water, and my body would need water and start to go "HEY WE NEED SOMETHING", but I would find myself craving ice cream instead. I think the problem is that our brains have a limited number of ways to go "Ahhhh that's good" or "Hey! Do something!", so when we get a feeling that says "Hey! Do something!" we have this tendency to think of whatever made us feel good in the past. Or something like that.

Intermittent Fasting




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