Good Atlantic article on intuitive eating and akrasia

[zedmango]

Why you should not beemind weight.

The Latest Diet Trend Is Not Dieting

Calorie counting, carb avoiding, and waistline measuring are not only making people emotionally miserable, but contributing to many of the health problems previously attributed to simple overeating.

Tribole believes that deprioritizing weight in favor of other indicators of well-being can have a profoundly beneficial effect on people’s health all its own. Often, people who fail to lose weight and those who gain it back are assumed to be lazy or too uneducated to make good choices. Tribole says that couldn’t be further from the truth, in her experience. “Our patients are really smart and successful people, otherwise,” she says. And while the cycle of weight loss and gain is unhealthy on its own, according to Tribole, the emotional stigma attached to it inflicts another round of damage.

The theory is that if you can have pizza whenever you want, it feels less essential to eat it until you’re uncomfortable when the opportunity presents itself, or to seek out the opportunity at all. Telling yourself you can’t have something, meanwhile, gives it undue power and allure. “I didn’t understand that the binges were created from the restriction,” Bahr says. “I thought I was an animal.”

Tribole calls the unnatural urge to eat a particular food that arises because of anticipated restriction the “last-supper effect.” “It’s the permission paradox,” she says. “When you have permission to eat, the food still tastes good, but you remove the urgency.”

[adamwolf]

I’m no doctor, and I also avoid telling other people what to do as a matter of general principle. I’ve said “we are all broken in such different ways” all over this forum.

My wife, for instance, expends little effort to eat well and stay fit.

Me though? Ispent years eating without worry about nutrition and my weight. I then Beeminded weight. I fixed my sciatica, eliminated my back pain, reduced my blood pressure, and lowered my life insurance payments!

I just realized that I have literally saved more from reduced life insurance payments than I ever paid in weight details. Funny.

[zedmango]

@adamwolf

I then Beeminded weight. I fixed my sciatica, eliminated my back pain, reduced my blood pressure, and lowered my life insurance payments!

How did you beemind weight, and what happened to your weight?