Cut Your Hunger In Half Without Drugs, Meds or Supplements

Neuroscientists conceive of hunger as "organic" or “manipulated.” In the manipulated state, it doesn’t matter whether your belly is empty or full, or whether you have a biological need for fuel. You experience hunger because somebody or something brings it out in you. Spoiler alert: Our hunger is constantly being manipulated.

LESSON TAKEAWAYS

AIM: Understand how your hunger can be trained up or down as a "conditioned response" to certain stimuli.

SKILLS YOU'LL LEARN: How to avoid situations and behaviors that lead to artificially raising your hunger.

See the resources section for links to research studies informing this lesson.

Food doesn't just satisfy hunger; it can CREATE it. This is one of the more eye-opening discoveries in neuroscience and it's instrumental in guiding hunger-reducing behavior. Here you'll see stunning examples of how, if you're not careful, you can use food to create hunger that wasn't there originally.

LESSON TAKEAWAYS

AIM: Understand how we inadvertently use food to stoke unnecessary hunger. Example: eating breakfast when you're not hungry. You take a nibble of toast, it sparks hunger, and next thing you know you have a full breakfast. But you started off with no appetite! Food created the hunger.

SKILLS YOU'LL LEARN: Tactics and strategies that avoid conscious or unconscious manipulation of your hunger.

Hunger is often a conditioned response to stimuli (example: you're not hungry, you see an ad for pizza and suddenly you're hungry). Fortunately, you can use classical conditioning to break those associations. In this lesson, you'll see plenty of examples on how to do that.

LESSON TAKEAWAYS

AIM: Understand what it takes to break conscious and unconscious hunger associations.

GOAL: Create new eating behaviors that break weight-gaining hunger associations.

See the resources section for links to research studies informing this lesson.

WHAT IS THE DELBOEUF ILLUSION & HOW DOES IT APPLY TO HUNGER?

You'll see dramatic, visual examples of the Delboeuf Illusion--how easily your brain is fooled into thinking it's seeing something that's not there. You'll also find out how the brain perceives size has a direct impact on how you experience hunger.

LESSON TAKEAWAYS

AIM: Understand the principles of The Delboeuf Illusion and how it applies to food, hunger and satiation.

Goal: A greater awareness of the brain's blind spots that can be exploited to reduce hunger.

See the resources section for links to research studies informing this lesson.

This step-by-step plan, recommended by neuroscientists, will activate the Delboeuf Illusion and maximize the potential to reduce hunger..

LESSON TAKEAWAYS

AIM: Understand how The Delboeuf Illusion works under different circumstances.

Skills You'll Learn: How to activate The Delboeuf Illusion and eat significantly less while feeling completely satiated.

A step-by-step guide to maximizing the hunger-reducing properties of the Delboeuf Illusion.

See the resources section for links to research studies informing this lesson.

WHAT IS THE "PORTION SIZE EFFECT?"

Succinct explanations and loads of examples you'll be able to relate to. Some of the counter-intuitive conclusions scientists have made about the steady increases in portion sizes will no doubt surprise you.

AIM: Understand how The Portion Size Effect works so you can neutralize it in the service of reducing hunger.

Skills You'll Learn: How to activate "The Bite Size Mechanism" produced by The Portion Size Effect, which is proven to reduce the amount of food you eat without feeling cheated or deprived.

See the resources section for links to research studies informing this lesson.

Memory has a huge influence on hunger and satiety. Known as "The Meal-Recall Effect," this is one of the most important discoveries ever made in our understanding of hunger. Here you'll understand how it came to be and what impact it has on your every day hunger levels.

LESSON TAKEAWAYS

AIM: Understand how the brain uses memory to construct hunger and satiety.

GOAL: Awareness of how important it is to pay attention to what you're eating so your brain can recall it when it formulates hunger levels for the next eating opportunity.

See the resources section for links to research studies informing this lesson.

A step-by-step guide to applying this proven hunger-reducing technique. Taken directly from the methodology used in the peer-reviewed experiments, the steps are simple to understand and easy to implement.

LESSON TAKEAWAYS

AIM: Create strong memories of what you're eating so your brain can access those memories and influence how it perceives hunger for the next meal.

GOAL: Create new ways of approaching your meals, enjoying them and "storing the data" your brain will use to perceive less hunger.

SKILLS YOU'LL LEARN: How to activate "The Meal-Recall Effect" to produce the same results achieved in laboratory settings (a 14% to 50% reduction in hunger).

Building new habits require you to pause and pay attention to what you’re thinking and doing. They require in-the-moment “sensors” that go off when you’re in the middle of a habit you’re trying to break, or a habit you’re trying to establish.

In this lesson, you'll learn the art of "cultivating a witness state" so you can be more aware of what you're doing.

See the resources section for links to research studies informing this lesson.

The latest studies in resilience show that a strategy called "Planning For Setbacks" dramatically increase accomplishment of goals. In this lesson, we'll show you how to apply this brilliant approach.