No one would suggest that losing weight is easy. The facts are in: it takes commitment, time, and change. However, we may be able to take some of the difficulty out of the task by making a few simple adjustments. The last three decades have shown a remarkable increase in the percentage of people who are overweight or obese. Eating has become the national pastime. We eat when we socialize, watch TV or movies, work (isn’t someone just always bringing donuts?). We eat to reward ourselves, to relieve frustration, to calm our nerves, to busy our hands, we drink “pop” with abandon, and so on. The problem with this constant eating is that we have lost touch with the natural, inborn triggers that tell us when we are hungry and when we are full. Eating, for most of us, has no relationship with hunger. We eat because the food is there…we keep eating because there’s food left.
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