So right now it seems that I do not need any solution because I am eating too little, but a few days ago when I was still eating normally, I thought more about it and here are my thoughts.
-- I seriously starved myself when I was young. The endocrinologist said that this history makes it difficult to lose weight because a body that has gone through starvation, be it from a famine or self-inflicted, holds on to every calorie. She said that such people stay at their maximum weight. I do not - I weigh 180 lbs and my maximum weight was 192 pounds, so I am doing not so poorly. I think that I have some issues with food confidence or whatever it is called - my body wants more because it is unsure that it would have another chance. And with seasonal foods, it is right - there won't be another chance for 11 months. I do not think that willpower is healthy or necessary; rather, I should eat as much as my body wants (after all, an extra Finnish cracker is only 20 calories and an apple, some 100 calories) in the hopes that eventually it would become assured of the food supply and stop wanting more.
-- I should substitute sex for food, as a smart solution that does not involve will power. For one, it would simply redirect my focus, as at times I eat because I have nothing better to do, and if I put together a busy social schedule, I would not have those pockets of free time to fill with food. For another, sex is similar to food in that it provides a sensual pleasure and is a bodily experience. So I won't feel sensory deprivation, as opposed to with brute will power application and morality speak. Third, sex burns calories. Fourth, orgasms --> smaller appetite (apparently, during orgasm and sexual stimulation, a substance called phenetylamine is released and it serves to regulate appetite).
So I think it is a win-win solution without losses and side effects.
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