Your body knows what it needs to function well and keep you active and happy. People do not need to "control" their eating. When you learn to trust the wisdom of your body, eating becomes a function as naturally regulated as breathing or sleeping.
Your body has its own unique wisdom and can be relied upon to function in a well-regulated manner if you take good and proper care of it.
Here are some examples of how clever your body is:
If you try not to eat what the body needs, it will only get hungrier and will stimulate you to want to eat more and more. This kind of eating is called gorging.
If a person stops eating or misses meals regularly, her body goes into a kind of hibernation which is similar to what happens to the bear who sleeps all winter long, eating nothing. The body's "metabolism" is a function that burns up the food you put into it, transforming it into fuel and energy. If you do not eat enough or stop eating altogether, your metabolism will slow down markedly; when that happens, a person can retain or gain weight eating little or no food at all.
People who diet and restrict food intake when they are young generally have the tendency to become fatter adults. This is because they damage their metabolic function through restricting food and dieting during childhood years.
Fat-free eating is not healthy eating. The body needs fat to develop the nervous system, absorb vitamins, and allow young girls to become mothers one day. Fat performs important functions for us throughout our lives. When you eat healthfully, three meals a day of a variety of nutritious foods in the right amounts, you can count on your body to regulate itself so that you will not have to worry about becoming fat. As you grow, your body will find and maintain the right weight. Once you have stopped growing, eating healthfully and exercising regularly will allow you to reach and maintain a "set point" weight, a more or less constant weight which may fluctuate slightly over time. Our bodies are houses for our souls. We are only given one body in our entire lifetime. It is important to care for it well.
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