• Develop greater inhibitions to trigger foods, such as chocolate, French fries, bread, candy, and many others.
• Break the connection between eating and emotional triggers such as boredom, conflict, comfort, depression, being alone, stress, and fatigue.
• Break the connection between eating and external triggers – such as coffee, alcohol, parties, sports events, Disneyland, Dodger Stadium, Staples Center, and much more.
• Changes the emotional reaction to being hungry, instead of fear or anxiety, it is now experienced with greater safety.
• Satiation and Fullness are experienced sooner.
A significant obstacle facing overeaters is their tendency to overlook physical cues of fullness or satiation. Levin (2007) at New Jersey Medical School has found that overeaters become insensitive to rising Leptin levels in the body which signal satiation. Overeaters tend to ignore the cues that healthy eaters pay attention to that indicates satiation. The result is that the Mind Body’s feedback system designed to stop overeating stops working. Once this feedback system stops, individuals become accustomed to eating much larger quantities of food.
Since traditional weight loss plans emphasize eating smaller portions, most dieters experience substantial feelings of deprivation since they had become accustomed to eating larger quantities. Yet dieters are encouraged to not only avoid problematic foods, but are expected to be satisfied with eating less. Dieters are typically instructed to ignore these hunger pangs, but from the research on inhibitions, it is evident that the brain and body continue to feel hungry and deprived. Deprivation and the desire to avoid it, often sabotage the best of intentions to maintain reasonable food portions.
By rewiring and conditioning the Limbic Brain it becomes possible to alter the experience of deprivation. By restoring internal feedback systems that register fullness, satiation is experienced sooner, and the likelihood of deprivation is greatly reduced.