Why We REALLY Overeat?

Fair warn­ing, this one is a rant. It’s prob­a­bly a bit long, but take the time to read it. I have some things to get off my chest, and I believe a lot of peo­ple read­ing this will find it refreshing.

We have a prob­lem in this coun­try, well, actu­ally in this world — with peo­ple overeating.

Obvi­ously overeat­ing is one of the pri­mary rea­sons peo­ple are strug­gling with bel­ly­fat and excess body­weight in gen­eral. The solu­tion to this prob­lem is not “don’t eat so much”, although that is the end goal. The solu­tion is to really, REALLY under­stand how your body uses fuel and how to cre­ate a diet plan that allows you to take advan­tage of it.

First, my rant.

You want to know why 99% of the peo­ple who fail to see results from any diet­plan, I mean REALLY fail? Because they do not under­stand how smart and pow­er­ful their bod­ies really are.

Look, there is no diet­plan on earth will allow you to eat what­ever you want every day. That’s fat­loss sui­cide. No pills will cure this. No surgery.

Only this will cure it — Use your body’s own inter­nal appetite mech­a­nisms to your advantage.

On the jour­ney of get­ting fit and achieve weight con­trol, some peo­ple suc­ceed, oth­ers do not. It’s the same story no mat­ter what your goals may be.

But in fat­loss, the dif­fer­ence between suc­cess and fail­ure, in lot of case, it is NOT the diet­plan, it’s the need to fully appre­ci­ate how and why it works.

So, here’s the facts, the EODD Plan is build around a sim­ple con­cept: Eat your favorite foods “fre­quently” and still drop the body weight you want.

And it works, not because it’s a gim­mick, but because it uses the sci­ence of metab­o­lism, nat­ural hor­monal manip­u­la­tion, and psy­chol­ogy to pre­pare your body to eat more calories.

If you’ve tried EODD with suc­cess, you know what I’m talk­ing about. If not, then read on.

First, EODD NEVER promises you that you can eat how­ever MUCH you want every other day, no, no, NO!

It’s what­ever you want Not how­ever MUCH you want. That is the sole rea­son a small frac­tion of many peo­ple are not see­ing the results they want.

Now, here’s the beauty of it all: After about 3 weeks fol­low­ing the Sys­tem of Eat­ing, you sim­ply can­not overeat, well, you can, but you’d have to force-feed your­self in order to pull it off.

You’ve been feed­ing your­self fre­quently for the day or two before your favorite food meals. The higher pro­tein and very low starch con­tent of the nutri­tion plan (with plenty of veg­gies) ensures that your body’s metab­o­lism stays ele­vated. BUT… and this is cru­cial, the amount of food con­sumed on these days before is not that much.

Myself, I’m never starv­ing, I just fol­low the Sys­tem, which does the calorie-counting for me. Plus I know my body really well after all these years.

So, after days of eat­ing enough to keep my metab­o­lism rel­a­tively high, and right BEFORE it starts to slow down (your metab­o­lism slows when you do not eat enough, bring­ing fat­loss to a rapid halt), I hit the body with a lot of calories.

BUT please read this: I do not eat “how­ever much” I want on my feed meals. I eat WHATEVER I want in rea­son­able por­tions. I don’t have to fight to not overeat, even when it’s pizza or burg­ers. Why? Because my body is set up to want more food, but also trained not to eat too much food at one sitting.

This is because I’ve been “graz­ing” — eat­ing small, fre­quent meals the days before my feed day. And the body learns to adapt, quickly :-)

The brain is actu­ally re-trained to sig­nal the stom­ach that you’ve had enough food, yes, even when it’s dessert, or pizza, or what­ever your favorite food may be.

So here’s the deal: Yes, you can lose all the bel­ly­fat and body­fat you want eat­ing like this, but like any­thing else that works, you have to fol­low a few sim­ple rules.

The result is a diet­plan where you never feel trapped. You always know that tomor­row, or pos­si­bly the day after, you can have what­ever food you want. Just in rea­son­able amounts.

If you ask me, this is the per­fect trade-off. No star­va­tion, super-healthy eat­ing at least 4 days a week, and you get to eat your cake as well (lit­er­ally if you want)

It’s not magic — it’s sci­ence, and a bit of work on your part. Yes, work. Noth­ing hap­pens with effort. But put some effort into this Sys­tem and boy, there’s not a bet­ter diet­plan on the face of the earth.

In con­clu­sion, I like to think of The Every Other Day Diet­plan as “The Think­ing Person’s Diet­plan” — Any­one who con­sid­ers every angle of what it takes to shed body­fat: Food you enjoy, free­dom, a plan that’s easy to fol­low, and flex­i­bil­ity will rec­og­nize this right away as the ideal approach. But, like all ideal approaches, it requires you to re-think the way you eat.

You eat for fuel… period. But you CAN (and should) eat for plea­sure too. As long as you keep FUEL as the main rea­son you are eat­ing in the fore­front of your mind, your body (and mind) will fol­low. Your body will adapt and begin to use both healthy and “not-so-healthy” foods as fuel.

Fuel to power your work­outs, help you burn off that bel­ly­fat and body­weight you don’t want, and empower your sense of control.

Espe­cially now, with the hol­i­days upon us, “food as fuel first; food as plea­sure sec­ond” should be carved into your din­ner table. Because, let’s face it: When all that hol­i­day overeat­ing is over with, you will be left with a big­ger belly, feel­ing slug­gish, and just one more step away from the body you desire.

What I mean in the best of both worlds is that you just have to be will­ing to re-think some things and give your body a few weeks to re-learn what it already knows — When to sig­nal you that you’re full, and way before you overeat.

That’s the only way to keep your MIND sat­is­fied and happy. And your mind is the key to your body’s success.

Thanks for reading.

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