Visualization for Weight Loss -The Gabriel Method

Creating Your New Body

train your body to be hungrier during the day and less so at night. Eventually, your body will be in the habit of eating and being hungry when you actually need the food, instead of storing it all night (chapter 15). • Remember to drink lots of water at night, as drinking will kill nighttime hunger pangs. Eat When You Are Hungry, Not When You Are Programmed to Eat While it’s important to eat a large breakfast and, in the begin- ning, “real” snacks in the afternoon, if you find you’re not hun- gry at dinner, don’t eat just because it’s dinner. There is no rule that says we absolutely have to eat at mealtimes. Now that you are adding more food and healthier food earlier in the day, if you’re not hungry at night, that is the greatest thing possible. The absence of hunger at night is your body’s way of telling you that it wants to lose weight. Let it happen. Of course, if you’re going out with family and friends, eat and enjoy yourself. But on those occasions when you’re not going out, or there is nothing special planned and you’re not hungry, allow yourself to lose weight. Go with what your body wants; you can eat whenever and you whatever you want. Don’t eat just because you are conditioned to do so. This is something that “naturally thin” people do; they skip a lot of meals. We always focus on all the food naturally thin people eat, but we never pay attention to all the times they don’t eat. They are not eating simply because their bodies are not hungry. So if you’re going to eat like a naturally thin person, then don’t eat like one as well.

Month Four Activate the “Get Thin or Get Eaten” Adaptation

• By now, your body has been changing for several months. It no longer wants to be fat. You’ll have much more energy and may have had it for some time. You may want to start to experiment with living a more outdoorsy, active, sporty

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