by janet | Feb 13, 2023 | The Placebo Diet, Weight Loss
We often eat because food gives us a good feeling; but some foods give us a better feeling than others! Generally, chocolate produces a better emotional reward than cabbage. It’s useful to know which foods boost your mood then you can make wise choices and eat the...
by janet | Dec 13, 2022 | The Placebo Diet, Weight Loss
When you set a goal there’s a specific process within your brain that determines how or even if you achieve it. If the strategy you try to follow to reach a goal means any sense of unhappiness or loss of pleasure, then you will self-sabotage and fail, no matter how...
by janet | Jul 25, 2021 | The Placebo Diet, Weight Loss
There are two big players when it comes to the drive to eat: as with all body signals there’s one hormone to turn it on and one to turn it off, and the balance of the two determine the overall outcome and whether you are eating, eating, eating and not stopping. The...
by janet | Aug 18, 2019 | The Placebo Diet, Weight Loss
When you put something in your mouth that you think tastes good, but you know is hurting you, how do you override that and still do it? Losing weight and stopping smoking both require the ability to delete certain truths, otherwise your unconscious would make the...
by janet | Jun 9, 2019 | The Placebo Diet, Weight Loss
Have you ever stopped to ask yourself how you benefit from your comforting eating behavior? Would you suddenly get a knife and slash away at your arm to relieve boredom, or to feel comforted? Of course not – that would be madness! There’s a name for that type of...
