11.09.08
Just For Judith
‘She is a very beautiful lady. I have never really seen her. Just glimpsing the occasional glimpse. I have sent her letters and I have received answers. Maybe one day I will see her.’
That incredible description was written by a Pharmacologist about receptors.
There was another beautiful lady, by the name of Barbara. Her boy fried dedicated his Ph. D. thesis with these words ‘To the beautiful Barbara’.
This how Barbiturates — the first ‘non natural’ sleeping pill came into being.
Judith is a beautiful lady too. She cares about her beauty. So she is worried about being overweight. This article is for her.
Judith knows that I am deaf. But strangely the conversation that invariably I did not hear was when my body spoke to me.
But this ’self deafness’ is the root cause of being overweight.
Normally your body says to us very clearly that you are hungry and when you ‘have had quite enough thank you’.
But you stopped listening a long time ago. So your body resorts to new strategy. It goes onto an emergency footing. It is as if your body no longer trusts you to look after it in a normal and regular way. In fact your body stopped talking to you. It adopted a new ‘independent strategy’.
And the new strategy is:
* Eat as often as you can. Grab snacks.
* Get on board as much high calorie food as possible.
* Eat as much as you can till you feel full.
Not hard to see why you are putting on weight is it?
How do you start listening and trusting what your body is telling you?.
Well you have a problem with that. Your body has lost faith in you. It is not telling you when it is hungry, really hungry that is.
Your body does not really trust you enough to again abandon it and it’s needs. Your body depended on you for a regular supply of calories. And you let it down.
You have to prove to your body that you are reliable.
You have to prove to your body that you are really listening.
But to do that you have to convince your body to speak to you again.
And that is quite a long process.
You can do it in stages.
* Start eating three regular meals at set times. The adage about breakfast being the most important meal of the day is true.
* Between meals religiously eat a fruit or raw vegetable.
After a while something interesting will happen. You will start feeling hungry. Just before eating you will feel hungry.
Congratulations. Your body is speaking to you. Don’t be too overjoyed. You have not entirely regained its trust. But your body will start telling you something else. It will start telling you when you are satiated. It is a different feeling from that of ‘being full’. At this point your body is prepared to rely on you to give it the calories that it needs at the time it needs them.
But if you want you can encourage your body to speak. Chew slowly. Sometimes it is not too clear to you if yur body wants to calories or water. At each meal drink water as you eat.
We are almost there.
Now that you are talking to each other you can begin a dialog. But you both must be honest and open.
Don’t fool your body into thinking that it just got sugar by using an artificial sweetener. Be fair. Either use natural sweeteners or don’t use them at all. Sweeteners do not satiate your need for sugar. If you pull a trick on your body, your body will trick you in return. Just by avoiding all sweeteners, included in soft drinks,.
You can now set yourself a realistic diet that you can maintain.
My tip would be this. Never eat potatoes, rice or bread on a weekday. Eat vegetables instead. I won’t go into Glycine Index. Or even how beneficial exercise is.
There you have it, Judith. My letter to a beautiful lady. I hope it gives you all that you want.
