“I want to lose weight, but I have a problem: I can’t control myself with food and I end up eating too much. How can I do?”.

Well, if I had to summarize in two sentences what my readers often ask me, the first sentence would be this, the second probably would be: “Why don’t I lose weight while eating little / dieting / training?”. These are two situations that only apparently seem to oppose.

On the one hand it seems that the first problem is overeating, but we need to see what that means.
Nervous hunger? Tendency to let go?
A gluttony that does not allow us to follow a healthier diet?

In the second case, we are obviously making some mistakes.
I dedicated a series of 3 articles plus a video to the problem of “why I don’t lose weight despite my diet”.
You can find them here: article 1 , article 2 , article 3 .

We come therefore to the first case.
I want to lose weight but end up eating too much.

We will tackle this first case with the help of nutritionist Ilana Muhlstein , who lost 50 kilos by defeating all those habits that led her to overeat, through a method called 2B Mindset .

Muhlstein takes care of the “environmental factor” to make its customers lose weight.

That is all those conditions that lead you to overeat but which are not strictly related to nutrition.

The environmental factor, even if you may not know it, is very important, I would say it is essential to successfully lose weight, that is, without gaining more weight.
Instead of going on a diet, taking action on this factor is the first step in losing weight.

If you don’t, your diet will fail nine times out of ten.

I WANT TO LOSE WEIGHT: LET’S START WITH THE ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR

There are situations that naturally lead us to overeat. Let’s see the main ones.

1) The social environment: that is friends, partner, relatives.

Very often the people we hang out with have a revealing weight on our desire to lose weight. Let’s say that I am very overweight and that I live in a family that instead taught me that “fat is beautiful”. My mother cooks heavy dishes, if I talk at home about wanting to lose weight they tell me I’m fine. Or my friends tell me, with phrases like: “But stop, you look great!”. Or: “If you want to lose weight, what should I do, what weight more than you?”. Or it is our boyfriend or girlfriend who opposes our intentions. As if putting ourselves on a diet is equivalent to betraying them in some way.

But since losing weight requires commitment, motivation and therefore willpower, if we hang out with people who undermine our beliefs, it will be much more difficult to lose weight.
The only way to do this is to neutralize these rumors.

For example, not having certain friendships or seeing them in situations that do not involve food. For example a cinema, a walk, an after dinner.

Express with partner or relatives your desire to lose weight, clearly, saying that you have made a commitment (with a dietician, with a nutritionist) and you will follow the instructions received to the letter and that’s it. Maybe cooking your own meals.

To ask these people to respect our choices without seeing anything else behind us. Wanting to be comfortable with yourself does not imply wanting to please others.