Why people overeat
November 19th, 2009 | 
Author: It is a human instinct.
We over eat due to the instinct inherited by our fore-fathers (and mothers).
We do not do it deliberately, we don’t even want to do it. Like I said, it is an instinct.
Probably, go back to cave-man (and woman) times and you would find that those with the same instinct were the most likely to live the longest.
The modern world we live in has been changing quite rapidly in the last few centuries but especially in the last few decades. Large corporations market unhealthy products with little or no moral ethic.
50 years ago, there were no real ‘overweight’ issues in the USA and UK (and Ireland). At that same time there were no franchise operators selling ‘happiness’. You could buy a hamburger and fries, but you did not expect it to make you happy. Think about it, are you loving it? Some burger sellers now tell us “I’m loving it”. They are selling us ‘love’ in a burger?
The real question is how can we change our natural urges towards over eating.
The initial understanding of ‘why’ is the beginning to our success,
why do we over eat? because we are programmed to do so.
what do we normally do if our computer has a faulty program running? we reload the program.
Well, we are the same, we need to reload the program.
Start by choosing a one week period to reload, then plan a full weeks menu using only fresh, unprocessed, healthy food. You can eat as much of it as you want, but it must be fresh, unprocessed and healthy.
You do not need to be told what ‘healthy food’ means, we all know it.
After one week you should find that your brain has begun the process to ‘re-boot’ the system in a slightly different way. During the 7 days you will find some of your taste buds coming back to life with a healthy appetite.
On your second week, just keep working at this new healthier life-style by finding some new menu’s from cookbooks or on-line cooking sites.
You do not have to change your life in a negative way, it does not have to be like a ‘diet’. You can still have your Friday night Chinese (Indian, pizza, chipper), this does not need to be torture, this is about improving your quality of life, health and well being.
If you have a ‘bad day’ and ‘fall off the wagon’ the thing to remember is ’so what’, you just get back to the new healthy way of life as soon as you are ready.
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