How and when can you cheat on your diet?

It is common to want to cheat on your diet. If you’ve ever committed to a program, it means you intend to lose weight and look good. But are you really following your nutritionist’s recommendations? Surely you have started diets to lose weight and after the fourth week you decide to treat yourself to that chocolate muffin that is waiting for you in the window of the cafe on the corner. These behaviors are natural and we are conditioned to commit them when we are in a situation that puts our willpower at risk. Self-sabotaging can aggravate the achievements you have in the process of carrying out an eating program. Even more so, when it is very restricted. We are including the type of diets low and very low in caloric intake. The psychological component is presented to encourage you to throw all your progress in the trash. The fk deserved it and the nutritionist won’t know. What a surprise you will be when the overweight numbers on the scale give you away completely. Cheating is very common, as we had already said, but these are poorly understood. To me, cheating is finding a shortcut that makes it easier for you to see achievements more quickly and obviously. The new way to cheat is by eating healthy. Please eat all the time. *Yes all the time. *Include free snacks in your diet to overcome the anxiety of ingesting harmful treats. Grated vegetables, cucumbers and a lot of other delicious things can turn out to be the main ingredients in the formula for serious cheating. Eating healthy requires a little willpower. The willpower that you yourself use to stay away from harmful foods and fight obesity. If you give up on maintaining this will, the worst you will get will be a terrible and distressing feeling of GUILT. The philosophy behind this is basically: When you have the possibility or situation to enjoy these off-limits foods, which will satisfy your cravings, force yourself to replenish your depleted willpower. This way you will produce more lepnin, which is the hormone that is responsible for keeping you satisfied. Health and nutrition researcher Sondra Kronberg, executive director of the Eating Disorder Collaborative Treatment notes that: “Classifying foods into ‘good’ and ‘bad’ will encourage you to associate eating with guilt and shame.” This establishes a pattern of associative behavior related to reward and punishment. If we realize that the diet is a punishment, we will soon fail to follow it. On the other hand, if we know that this eating plan will have the positive effect we expect in our lives, it will be the first of many positive changes that are to come.

• Listen to your appetite

“If you want to have spaghetti and meatballs for dinner, Presto!” Prepare a version of this dish free of fat and carbohydrates. If you can’t find it, use natural ingredients, rice pasta and gratin them with panela cheese. Eating is an instinct, and it has been shown to have a positive effect on weight and well-being.

• Enjoy treats from time to time

A sweet snack can stimulate and accelerate the metabolization of iodine at lunch. Opt for sugar-free baked coconut buns or sugar-free quince paste. If you are on a diet, only allow yourself this treat 2 times a week.

• Savor every bite

Once you place any item of food in your mouth, record all the sensory stimuli such as smell, taste, texture, temperature and appearance. These data are very important to create a brain construct that activates the feeling of satiety in the body and also promotes good digestion and absorption of nutrients.

• Hydrate

Drinking water appeases appetite instincts, in addition to helping all processes at the cellular and tissue level.