We're Wired to Maintain a Healthy Weight

Let's say you have a "fat meter" that will send "STOP!" message to your brain when you've accumulated enough fat. Suddenly, you have no desire for pizza, ice cream, or potato chips. You will see these favorite foods, even smell their delicious, and will not be tempted. Or maybe you decide to eat something, and your metabolism will only recover to burn extra calories.

Fantasy is good, huh? Well, it's not that far. Believe it or not, you have a built-in mechanism. So why do you ask, do you always feel driven to eat, even when you consider yourself overweight or struggling to maintain your weight? And why are you losing weight when you're not holding back?

Well, maybe your meter broke. Or maybe the alarm isn't strong enough to trigger a reaction from your brain. And that's too bad. Because this mechanism is so powerful that people who work with it never resist the temptation to eat when they are not hungry. Maintaining a healthy weight naturally to them; it's not something they have to work through on a low diet and at the gym.

Unfortunately, too many of us have lost this powerful system of rules. Food still teases us long after our calorie requirements are met. And extra calories result in packing in extra pounds. Our bodies no longer know how to control the "local point", a level that is most appropriate for us.

But don't worry. I offer information to help you learn how to reset this powerful mechanism so that your body can naturally achieve the healthiest weight. You will be able to eat normally without thinking about calories, allowing your hunger / saturation / appetite to control what and when you eat in a highly efficient mechanism. Eating will be easy and fun.

Setpoint: Your Ideal Weight

When it works correctly, this weight-control mechanism is exactly as the most advanced scientific instrument. Don't trust me? Just consider a fifty-year-old woman who weighs about five pounds more than she did when she was twenty. If he eats about 2,000 calories a day, for thirty years he consumes about 22 million calories. Because five kilograms of body fat stores about 17,500 calories, that means that his body is only .08 percent more in balance than energy. This amounts to about 50 calories a month — less than the calories in one egg!

In other words, its energy balance is regulated with more than 99.9 percent accuracy! How many things in life can you say about? Of course there is no way you can do it right by trying to use your own strength in what you eat and how much you train.

For the past few decades, long-term adult weight stability has been a norm and a difficult process. A study in 1970 showed that sixty-six-year-old men weigh just four to five pounds more than thirty-year-old men. Maintenance of that kind is not an accident.

So why struggle? Provide calorie count and try to control your diet through diet. Instead, let your body do the work for you. I promise you will have far better results.

Healthy weight that your body seeks to call your setpoint weight. Think of it as the preferred temperature on the fat thermostat. Like any thermostat, this one can be set at any convenient point. The system then works tirelessly to do whatever it takes to get your body in line with that point. It acts like biological force: The farther away you get from the center, the stronger the attraction is to get you back to a comfortable range.

This system only works if we allow it, however. If you keep "jiggling" a thermostat through a diet, the mechanism is broken. This shake is like a power struggle to seize control away from your weight regulation mechanism, and in the end, it just makes your body survive harder to maintain control. The result: Your body forces you to not only regain the lost weight, but you can also pay the penalty for the extra weight gain — and setpoints are now set higher to protect against future diets.

Instead of continuing to engage in heavy fighting with your body, you can declare a ceasefire and join forces to help you achieve a healthy weight. You will find that you will lose interest in eating when you are full. And your own body will be a contributor to countless times without deliberately denying yourself.

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