Eating regularly and exercising does not guarantee you will succeed on a diet

Tuesday 9 August 2022

When you have intended to go on a diet, of course you have been diligent in exercising and managing your diet, but still failed to diet. Everything you do to lose weight feels meaningless and futile.

In addition to diligent exercise and eating patterns, the power of the mind also affects the success or failure of diet efforts. Therefore, if you want a successful diet and run smoothly, you should first identify the important tricks.

Before going on a diet, equip yourself and your mind with a few things like the following.

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1. The fewer types of food on the plate, the smaller the portion of the meal

Besides being recommended to limit the amount of food each day while on a diet, you are also not advised to take various types of food into the dinner plate.

Because in fact the more variety of food on the plate, the more likely you are to eat a lot of food. The presence of various flavors in one meal can also stimulate the hypothalamus part of the brain to produce neuropeptide Y.

This compound serves to increase appetite. So, from now on try to limit what food choices are enough for one meal.

2. Imagining eating a desired food

There is a study that reveals that thinking constantly when you are craving a certain food turns out to have good benefits.

This is because the mind will subconsciously make you eat in small amounts.

Interestingly, it turns out that the influence of your mind that imagines eating these foods will indirectly limit your desire to consume them in large quantities. Because this is what will make you successful on a successful diet.

3. Remembering the portion of the previous meal

Most people eat large portions or even more than they think. We can just keep eating because we think that the portion of the previous meal was still small. In fact, however, it is the opposite. In essence, try to return the mind to the last time we ate. Then remember and count what foods have entered the body.

Because according to the theory for a successful diet, recalling the food that has been eaten before can help resist the urge to eat in large quantities.

Those are some important things that we must remember and do when going on a diet. It is not easy to do this, it takes patience and patience. However, all of that is not impossible if you want to try, because it can't start because it's unusual, so try these tips first and see the results.

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