How To Decrease Your Appetite

The best way to decrease your appetite is to understand what increases it in the first place.  When it comes to your appetite - don't fight it, fix it.  It's the difference between putting a band-aid on something and actually remedying  the source of the problem.  So let's get to the source.  Appetite, as defined by the dictionary, is simply, a desire for food or drink.  It's real simple, so let's keep it simple.  We are not psycho-analyzing anyone's deep dark secrets here. Follow me and read to the bottom on a specific way you can decrease your appetite.

If you have an increased appetite, you've probably said words like this - "I'm a stress eater" or "I'm an emotional eater."  And my reaction to that is...so am I and everyone else; that doesn't mean anything is wrong with you.  What that does mean is that you recognize your appetite is increased by anxiety and anxiety is indeed a source of an increased appetite.  The source of your appetite comes from a message that the brain sends to the body to increase the desire for food or drink.  Why would the brain do this to us?  It wants to protect us.  The brain knows from past experience that food and drink serve as a natural anti-anxiety for us.

First let me show you that your appetite is simply a message from the brain to the body.  Do you know that it is possible to be under extreme stress and emotion, have an empty stomach, and even feel hungry, with NO appetite whatsoever... when you have the stomach flu.  Ever think about that before?  This is not a paradox, this is simply from a message your brain sent to your body to decrease your appetite to protect you during a time when you are unable to digest food.  Your brain sent that message to your body to have no desire for food.  It did this to protect you.

Understand the brain will send a message to your body, one way or another - to increase or decrease your appetite for your protection, always.  It wants to help ease your anxiety, comfort your pain, and protect you from illness.  Anxiety, along with pain and other experiences will cause the brain to send this message to increase your appetite.  But let's just focus on anxiety, since it is so prevalent.  One way that you can decrease your appetite is to decrease your anxiety.

Anxiety, as defined by the dictionary is "distress or uneasiness of mind caused by fear of danger or misfortune."  And did you know that your lack of confidence in your ability to lose weight is actually fear of misfortune.  If you fear you won't be able to lose weight, you have fear of misfortune, which is anxiety. Your very fear that you will never be able to lose weight increases your appetite!  It's a vicious cycle, very similar to worrying about not getting enough sleep causing insomnia. 

The best way to decrease your appetite is to have full confidence that you CAN and WILL lose weight.  This kind of confidence can only come from knowing the truth with a real and truthful weight loss plan with no gimmicks and no exceptions.  Only then can you truly have this kind of confidence.  This confidence will eliminate your anxiety and hence, you will not need the anti-anxiety effect that more food provides, and so the brain will decrease your appetite.  I still marvel at this in my own experiences and am fascinated to see this play out each and every time for our clients. The effect of removing the anxiety about weight loss is a powerful way our clients experience a decreased appetite. 

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