Basically, the refining process of both all flours and all sugar causes food addiction problems in your brain. Whether companies do this to addict people to their products or not likely could be debatable. However that this is true cannot be debated really because of studies done on the brain in reaction to all refined flours and sugars. So, in this sense, all people who eat refined flours and sugars are addicted to them because of the way our brains actually work. And as long as we are addicted to flours and sugars we cannot really successfully lose and maintain our weight where we want them to be.
So, for example, in the last week I lost 10 pounds (however) I'm 6 foot 5 inches tall too so losing this much weight (or twice this) when I hiked 25 miles over a weekend (when I was under 40 years old) was pretty normal for me. However, over 40 even for a man losing weight is much harder and sometimes it seems almost impossible for women for a variety of reasons.
I lost this much weight last spring but then I was having a health issue from switching medicines and I just barely kept out of the hospital and I wasn't able to go with my wife and two daughters to Ireland, Scotland and England for 3 weeks with them either. So, I was pretty upset about that but also happy that I was still alive too. So, I went to Portland where my son who is a trained nurse could help nurse me back to health instead and stayed at my daughters' place in Portland while they were in Great Britain and Ireland and Scotland.
However, I have found that once you eliminate your addiction (temporarily or permanently) to flour and sugar you have no real barriers to losing weight as long as you weigh everything you eat which usually breaks down to (for a man) 6 oz. of protein in the morning, 6oz. of grains (not flour) and about the same for a fruit or pieces of fruit. This is what you have for breakfast but you have to weigh it. For lunch it is the same but you eliminate the grains and replace that with veggies. And then for dinner it is the same without the fruit and then you add a salad (also 6 ounces).
For a woman the weight is 4 ounces instead of 6 ounces. Now you might say: "Well. Women might be 4 foot 10 to 6 feet or more and men might be 5 feet tall to almost 7 feet tall or more?"
Yes. That's true but this is the diet I'm on and I'm losing weight and still getting protein and veggies and salads and fruit (all that I weigh on a food scale that can neutralize the weight of the bowl first before I weigh what I'm eating. So, now since last Saturday I have already lost 10 pounds and if my health stays okay I likely will keep losing down to where I want to be. I'm trying to figure out whether I want to weigh what I did at 17 or what I weighed in my early 20s. Because I was pretty skinny at 17. And in your 20s your shoulders broaden and stuff like that and you become more muscular like I did too. But, thinking like this with this diet becomes possible. Another trick is you decide what you are going to eat the night before and write it down. This keeps you from being spontaneous in the moment so you stay on your discipline. Weighing everything you eat also helps with this discipline too.
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