| I'm a medical doctor with obesity research experience |
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Posted: 22 Jun 2008 12:02 pm |
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As I said, I'm a medical doctor and I have obesity research experience. I also have nutrition training from Cornell University (Ivy League).
The problem with weight control is we're looking outside ourselves for the answer. The real answer already lies within us. The answer is our internal cues--our hunger pangs.
In 1968, a very famous social psychologist (Dr. Stanley Schacter, who was later inducted into the National Academy of Sciences) did a landmark research study that gave supported the use of hunger pangs for weight control. However, unfortunately, that information pretty much stayed with the scientists, and has not trickled down well to the general public very well, imo.
Dr. Schacter's study showed that obese people tend to eat according to "external" cues, meaning cues that originate outside the stomach (i.e., the site of food, the smell of food, the time of day, emotions, boredom, depression, stress, etc). However, thin people eat according to "internal" cues (hunger pangs).
Do you get it? If you want to be thin, you have to learn how to wait for, identify, and then use your hunger pangs the way God intended. Of course, there's a little more to it. You have to eat fewer calories and exercise more. And you have to learn how to deal with your emotions better, and you have to learn how to eat fattening food in moderation when you have it.
I know those things sound hard to do, but they're surprisingly not. It doesn't take THAT long to learn them. The shock is that once you do learn the techniques, you find it's actually easier than the type of "dieting" you already know.
I have to check the rules of the forum to see if I'm allowed to tell you about my website, where I discuss this more. I actually have developed an entire program about it, since my patients have lost so much weight doing it.
I should also tell you this is a Christian-based mind-set, so if that kind of approach puts you off, you might want to avoid it. I'm not a head-banging evangelist, or anything, but my faith is important to me and permeates how I think. So, how could I write develop a program that doesn't involve my faith? It's not possible.
Anyway, if you want to learn more about my program, you're welcome to visit my sight. It's a very, very new site, so you'll need to enter the name of it right into the browser. I'm not sure if the search engines will bring it up just yet.
In case you are interested, you can type TheEdenDiet.com in to your browser, but as I said, if you simply "google" it, you probably won't find it. If you're not interested, that's okay. I'd like the opportunity to continue to post here anyway. I have a lot to say on this topic. I'm not just an "expert" in the sense of my education and training, I'm a fellow sufferer. I'm 5'1" and once weighed 207 pounds. But I lost 75 pounds and kept it off 25 years by doing these techniques.
If my patients and all the people in the church workshops and private home-based weight loss groups that I lead can do it, so can you. God bless you and good luck, whatever you decide.
Rita Hancock, MD
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