Before you read my article, please note that this is based on my personal experience and opinion. I am not a doctor, nutritionist, or scientist. Take it with a grain of salt and consider it for entertainment purposes only
About 10 days ago, I start to to control my appetite and my food addiction. turn out I don’t addicted to food at all, I don’t feel to eat when I am already full, when I eat my real food, i don’t have the urge to gorge my food like I use to have. when I full, the food itself becoming hard to eat, they don’t feel good anymore, the body just refuse to eat anymore.
Turn out the real problem was that I eat not real food but ultra process food UPF. a food that has been process with so many way and chemical, to make us addicted to it, when we eat it, we just can’t get full & wanting more of it.
it is by design, the food that make us want to eat more and more, I think will power is not good substitute for it if we want to win a war with this kind of food.
for me it is better to treat it like any other addiction and not a food that we will eat on occasion. but a addiction substance that we better not to touch it even for once.
UPF is like Cigarettes
I can make analogy about Ultra Process Food similar to cigarettes. I know what it feels to crave smoking, I myself once was smoker, it was not strong enough but still feel the drag of smoking addiction, the seed of addiction already planted in my body since my first smoke
when I try to stop the addiction, it feel so bad, something is missing, and mind start to rationalize, you don’t need to stop it altogether at all, you can start small, just take that single cigerrates does not cause a problem, it will not mean a thing, only when smoke a lot it cause problem.
one cigarette? not really big thing, beside that what a life if we can’t just enjoy single cigarette? but make sure I only take one & it is okay
it is okay, really?
isn’t it sound wise? it sound make sense?
noooo
it is a trap
it is a trap that addicted mind try to rationalize
once you take that thought as true, you already set in trap
only matter of time when that single cigarette becoming a pack a day
that is how I have been trap by my own addiction from the start of my smoking addiction. it is almost 5 years, and I don’t yet really successfully to not smoke for more than 1 year.
You can’t just rationalize with addiction. the best way to fight it is to stop it altogether once for all.
for me as I can say once was a light smoker, the first real cigarette I take when I was 18 years old, and not really becoming a smoker until my 20th birthday. then after that I only smoking occasionally for time, some time I could smoke a pack in 2 or 3 days, and sometime I don’t smoke at all for 3 months.
so I call myself light smoker.
if light smoker have a hard time to stop a smoking, what happen to hard smoker, who becoming smoker maybe from junior or high school who could consume 1 pack a day or more and already smoke for more than 10 years.
you thing it will become easy?
no way, I can’t just imagine, how hard it will be for them. pray for them.
now I would say, UPF is really similar to cigarettes. once you taste it, it is very hard to stop, you will always crave it. when u don’t eat it. something is missing, the only way to rid that feeling is to consume UPF.
and once you eat it. you can’t just stop. you want more, and because of the UPF is design for u to eat it more (more profit to the company who produce it), they know your biology more than u do and try to re-engineer their product so u want it more and more. it is hard to fight a body biology. most will fail.
so I think the wise thing you can do is to completely stop UPF. try find a substitute for it. what you like? a sweet food? try fruits, try make home made healthy cake. try fill u refrigerator with healthy food that u can choose. the less the food is process the better.
for me personally, I try to substitute my Sweet tooth with a sweet fruits like mango or banana, I also eat sweet potato.
in my experience, I just can’t overeat this sweet choice. before I can easy eat 1 jar of Nutella, 1 roll pack oreo (14 pieces), 1 doritos, 1 indomie jumbo or samyang, 1 coca cola 330ml. just in one session.
imagine that. how many calories fill my body in one go, poor kidney and liver, also poor pancreas for making insulin.
I still long way to go I only start not eating UPF from 10 days ago, who knows when addiction hold me again, I can just as easy back to that self destruct habits.
So I must be very vigilant and not let down my guard, because even if I fail just once to hold to this high ideal, it could be a loss, and there is no guarantee I will come back again.