Don't Fall Into The Diet Trap

The weather is getting warmer and it's time to pull out our summer clothes. What will fit? Or rather, what won't. The temptation to crash diet is strong. You want to look good and feel good this year. Yeah. This will be the season to make it all happen. What new diet programs are out there that you haven't tried yet?

So many of us have fallen prey to the quick fix and false hope of dieting. Perhaps we even lose some or all of the weight we intended. But, the reality is that 92% of people who diet regain every pound they lose. Restricting food makes no sense to our brain, our body or our metabolism. Diet failure is not about a lack of willpower or discipline. Deprivation chemically triggers increased hunger for survival in rebellion against the perceived starvation. It can happen from simply missing a meal. Simply put, we don't fail at dieting. Our bodies are designed to make us fail in order to survive.

A lot of people ask, "Is Totell a diet?" The answer is, "No." Totell is freedom from dieting...freedom from food obsessions...freedom from self-contempt. Our approach is simple, straightforward, and scientfically proven to help you lose weight naturally and permanently. We explain why you overeat which allows us to help you stop. Diets are the problem. Totell is the solution.

Bunny Flop

Yes, I flopped yesterday. Of course eating Easter candy and having a great meal is part of the enjoyment of food and special occasions but I drifted into addictive eating at the end of the day. It was the nestle crunch Easter eggs. It only took four eggs to set off my amygdala deep inside my brain and soon I wanted the entire Easter basket and all of the left-over dessert. The good news is I knew exactly what had been triggered in my brain and what I needed to do to curve the urge to keep on eating. I began looking for non-food activities that would mellow out the dopamine and increase my serotonin naturally, it took about an hour for the addictive thoughts and desires to subside. Yes, I ate too much but I learned more about how much I can eat before the amygdala goes crazy in my mind. Remember we are all different so do your experiments and keep learning more about yourself.

Jana