How do you get 100% willpower to commit to diet?
When you walk on a diet and leave it constantly, you begin to blame yourself and blame "your willpower." Have we not always heard that weight loss needs “determination” and personal strength?
Of course, I am not talking about a harsh diet (breakfast: a toast and an egg, lunch: a quarter of a chicken and a green salad, dinner: a piece of Quraish cheese), but a balanced diet that is not harsh and easy to adhere to. No one can abide by this aforementioned tragic diet no matter how strong his will, even Gandhi himself will not.
What is the definition of willpower specifically? Is there really someone with weak willpower and another with strong willpower? To what extent does your willpower affect your success in dieting and weight loss? And what to do if your willpower is weak? Are there ways to strengthen them? This is what we will recognize in this article.
Definition of willpower:
Willpower is defined by the American Mental Health Organization (APA).
Ability to postpone pleasures and resist short-term temptations to reach the long-term goal.
Ability to resist unwanted thoughts, feelings and freaks.
This is clear talk we all know, but there are two things that are not known to many, namely, that the willpower is a tangible thing in the frontal lobe of the brain prefrontal cortex.
This part is located behind the front and the eye. Not only is he responsible for willpower and self-control, but he has a role in concentration, short-term memory and solving computational equations. This information will tell you why it is important later in the article.
Other information that many do not know is that willpower is exhausted! That is, it's not endless energy that you can count on all day. The willpower is tired and strained, like a bisps. You raise the weight of the baseball muscle several repetitions and straining the baseball muscle.
Willpower is the same. The more you use it, the more stressful it will become to control yourself and your abstinence from pleasures the harder.
Remember when I told you that the frontal lobe of the brain is also responsible for calculations and memory? Consequently, doing calculations also weakens your willpower. These things have been thoroughly researched in scientific experiments.
In a research conducted at Stanford University, scientists divided volunteers into two groups: a two-digit reservation group and a seven-digit reservation group. After the volunteers memorized the numbers, they gave them two snacks, a cookie and a fruit salad.
Scientists discovered that volunteers who kept 7 digits ate cookies twice as many as the group that kept two digits. This is due to the strain of the anterior lobe of the brain.
The opposite is also true, in scientific research, compared scientists to two groups of volunteers. A plate of cookies and a dish of horseradish were placed in front of the two groups: the first group was asked to resist cookies and eat radishes, and the second group was allowed to eat cookies.
The two groups were then placed in front of a complex puzzle. The group, which has exhausted the effort to resist cookies, is desperate to solve the puzzle after 8 minutes on average. The group that ate the cookies kept trying for an average of 19 minutes!
There is a lot of research that has proven that the frontal lobe of the brain strains and weakens your willpower due to external influences. Even scientific research has found that walking down a busy road with people significantly weakens your willpower.
For these reasons, Mark Zuckerberg wears the same clothes every day at work and does not change them. He does not want to strain his brain by making unimportant decisions that affect his willpower and work performance.
For this reason, when people set New Year goals in January, such as trying to lose weight, quit smoking, start sports, etc. at the same time, they fail because their willpower is overstretched and loaded with more than one goal.
That's why, after a stressful day at work, the chance of getting out of the diet and ordering fast food increases a lot, or perhaps during exams and straining your brain, your willpower is completely destroyed.
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How to strengthen willpower:
In fact, this is not the purpose of the article. The main objective of the article, from the title (how to get 100% willpower), is not to strengthen it, because it is complicated. No matter how strong your will is, the end of the day will let you down. However, these are scientifically proven methods that strengthen willpower. When I say scientifically proven, I mean that the change in the anterior lobe of the brain was measured by Brain Imaging:
- Meditation
- Sports in the morning.
- Healthy food.
- enough sleep.
- Tension control
- Write a plan.
- Removing distractions (noise, television, mobile games ..).
How do you get 100% willpower?
I have now learned that willpower is limited, straining, exhausting and unreliable for months.
You may fight fast food and desserts for a few days, or even a few weeks, but with diet stress and diet tension, your willpower will let you down, sooner or later.
In fact, as time passes and you lose a lot of weight, your body starts producing more and more hormones of hunger and stress (cortisol) and weakens your will further.
So the solution, my dear brother and my dear sister, is not to rely on your willpower at all.
The solution is to rely on environmental change and control your circumstances. Imagine your wife ordered a pizza hut, parties stuffed with mozzarella cheese, and you schedule your food on chicken breasts and boiled rice. You might resist pizza for lunch, but when you enter the kitchen in the evening and you're hungry, it's over, you'll eat pizza.
So, the most important step is to control the components of your kitchen. It's to be clean of fast food and appetizers.
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