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The Feedback Loop That Unlocks Weight Loss
Crack this code and take a huge leap forward
Around this time last year I set myself a challenge.
I wanted to confront my poor relationship with food and address the fact that I have been overweight, to some degree, for most of my adult life.
I wrote every day for 100 days and each day I tried to investigate a slightly different angle of food, weight, and my own situation.
The whole process changed me for good.
Physically, I lost a bit of weight — not loads, but a bit — but the change in my mind, I can now see, was the huge leap forward.
And the biggest lesson I learnt was about the feedback loop that lies at the heart of my relationship with food, and, probably, a lot of other people’s…
Eating For The Wrong Reasons
For some reason, I eat to address my emotions. At its worst, I can enter an almost trance like state where I just keep eating and feel completely powerless to stop it.
This is called binge-eating and it is an eating disorder. But eating disorders exist on a scale, and I know I am lucky that I am low down on that scale.
