It's something of a genre on the Internet: young women struggling to master
their weight, and young men chirping in with advice. Because there is a concern
about female weight problems: a girl who is overweight is never at a stable weight.
There is something tragic about it: she is letting go and gaining, or she is starving
herself and loosing, but at bottom, neither strategy is sustainable. And worrying
about it is at the center of her daily life.
Very often, the counselor will use the 'add healthy foods' strategy. The girl can show
herself dining on bacon poutine and a milkshake and the coach will simply say 'Just
add spinach to that!'. It's a step in the right direction. To the extent that one has eaten
a balanced meal, hunger will come back gradually for the next one. But at the core of it,
the young woman will need to let go Fast Food hopping at odd times and settle for a
healthy eating plan aka three meals a day, properly paced.
The coach below belongs to a newer, obviously more knowledgeable generation.
He gets into buying and cooking food, and eating the right thing at the right time
aka three meals a day. He also does not mention insulin, but is cognizant of how
dopamine works. That's more recent: dopamine is not serotonin, it is not pleasure
but is the habit- forming neurotransmitter. That milkshake tasted good and solved the
immediate hunger problem. The person will be attracted to milkshake images, will see
places that sell them the next time she feels desperately hungry because that is what
handled it the last time. So the coach cries that was not the right reaction. Good work!
Let me share something about my own life. I am a Senior now, but well remember my
childhood breakfasts. Sweet cereal was never the healthy breakfast; it was what will get
the kid's milk down on a bad day now that the War is over. Supermarkets were a new
thing and a variety of cereals on the shelf was one of the first things to offer choice and
colour in those evolving places...
Just saying...
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