Self Control and Weight Loss

People usually presume that self-control is the ultimate way to lose weight. Well, its not!

How does self control play a role in your weight loss regime? You will exercise and not bite your favorite chocolate mousse? Even if you succeed in doing this once or twice, you will eventually fail because our system has not been designed in a manner to prevent this.

A journal published in the year 2000 named Psychological Bulletin by Roy Baumeister and Mark Muraven showed that our self control and willpower is very much like a muscle, the more we use it, the weaker it gets. If you can force yourself to exercise for an hour, you should know that you are actually testing your self-regulating capacity, which will eventually answer back.

Whilst there are some people who can overcome this, as they say exceptions do exist, but majority of us cannot. And if you are concentrating on exercise alone for weight loss, your body is likely to ask for more food, because the more you are physically active, the more you feel hungry.

Human evolution fails to adapt to these psychological terms like self control when their food habits are concerned. As exercise is not enough to make us lose eight, it is about being able to accept and adapt new diet programs, which is seldom possible for us.