are you suffering from diet trauma?

If you've been trying to lose weight for a long time, there's a good chance that you're suffering from diet trauma. This is the lasting emotional impact of all the failed attempts at losing weight. So that every time you're thinking about losing weight now, you're activating your sympathetic fight, flight or freeze nervous system. And this causes two big problems. First of all, physically, it affects you biochemically in a way that makes it very difficult to lose weight. But more importantly, it affects you mentally in a way that makes it almost impossible to lose weight. Every time you activate your fight, flight or freeze response, the blood goes from your brain out to your muscles. It's not a state where you're thinking clearly. You're very emotional, so that every time you're thinking, thinking about weight now, you're in this very emotional state where you're not accessing your higher brain functions, your executive functionings, to be creative, to think clearly, and to come up with solutions. So the first thing you want to do if you want to change your weight for good, is to start relaxing your body and then think about the solutions you want to achieve from that state.