However, if you genuinely and honestly follow the rules set out in the previous blog entry (eat with awareness, for genuine pleasure and without a shadow of guilt) you will discover 2 interesting things either immediately or over time with more repetitions of the experiment:
The first is that you reach a stage in your eating of the delights when you are no longer genuinely hungry and then your enjoyment of what you are eating drops significantly (it is still enjoyable but not divine bliss anymore).
The second interesting pattern you will notice is that there is always a junk food hangover. It might be a headache, bad digestion, trouble sleeping, mood swings or bad skin, but I 100% guarantee that as you start developing awareness you will find this to be true.
Just like booze, getting a junk food hangover doesn't mean you should stop eating junk food. It is simply a factor to bear in mind when making the decision about what to eat and how much. In the same way that I bear a hangover in mind when deciding both what to drink at a given event and how much of a particular alcohol to drink. It means that most of the time I might have 1 or 2 glasses of wine. I still relish the occasional special event when I drink with reckless abandon and have a wonderful drunken time. The next day of course I pay for it and the pain of then hangover is usually enough to put me off a drinking splurge for another month or two!
The above 2 principles can and will become your most important weapons in finding your perfect weight for life. They are also completely different guiding principles to anything you ever tried before in your weight loss efforts which all centred around guilt, restriction and ridicuolous fads.
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