By Michael Alvear
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September 1, 2022
Is Weight Loss Without Dieting Possible? As a weight loss researcher I can tell you that science is unequivocal about dieting: It doesn’t work. Systematic reviews of its long-term effectiveness consistently show abysmal failure rates--up to 95% in some cases. These studies prove that dieting should be the main exhibit at The Museum of Failure. Not only does it not work for the vast majority of people, it leaves enormous harm in its wake. From the physical pain caused by deprivation to the emotional toll that can leave you depressed, anxious, and obsessive about food, dieting is toxic to body and soul. Worst of all, there is a growing body of evidence indicating a positive association between dieting and weight gain. So why do we jump at the opportunity to try the next diet that comes down the pike? Because we think we have no choice. We think dieting is the only way to lose weight. We think the problem is that we just haven’t found the right diet. We believe this despite the scientific literature telling us otherwise. Most people are shocked to find out just how much peer-reviewed evidence there is for what I call “No-Diet Weight Loss.” How To Lose Weight Without Dieting No branch of study has contributed more to “No-Diet Weight Loss” than neuroscience. The problem is that the scientists in this field don’t know that’s what they’ve done. For example, when neuroscientists discovered The Meal-Recall Effect they didn’t realize they developed a technique that cuts hunger by up to 50%. How is that possible? How could they not know they invented something that practically guarantees weight loss? Because they didn’t think it was important. The technique wasn’t developed to help people lose weight; it was used to understand memory’s effect on hunger. That it just so happened to be a powerful instrument for weight loss was incidental to their goal. Irrelevant, really. As you’ll see in a later blog post, neuroscientists were far more interested in finding out why amnesiacs never felt full despite eating multiple meals. The Meal-Recall Effect is a perfect example of how powerful weight loss strategies get shoved into the neuroscience vaults and sit forgotten, gathering dust, unrecognized and unused. It was just this kind of published but unpublicized weight-reducing discovery my team of weight loss researchers spent years looking for. We analyzed thousands of peer-reviewed studies, identified the most important discoveries and turned them into a logical, comprehensive, easy-to-implement, no-diet weight loss program we call NeuroSlim®. How To Lose Weight Without Counting Calories “No-Diet Weight Loss” sounds like an oxymoron so let me explain. What if, instead of dieting, you learned a neuroscience technique that weakens your cravings for fattening food? What if, instead of dieting, you used breakthroughs in neuroscience to reduce your hunger by 20% or more? And what if, instead of dieting, you used neuroscience to develop intense cravings for fruits and vegetables? Every tool, technique and insight in our NeuroSlim® weight loss class (and blog) is ripped right out of the most respected studies in the scientific literature. Click here to see hundreds of citations, including links, so you can see which scientists developed each chapter’s insights, tools and techniques, how these scientists came to their conclusions and which academic journals published their works. I did this to show you how rooted the book is in science, to help you verify the information, and find out more about the subject if you want to research it further. NeuroSlim® is not a diet. It does not traffic in recipes, meal plans, or nutritional advice. There isn’t a list of foods to eat or avoid. Unless you grew up in a family that considered gravy a beverage I'm going to assume you know what's healthy and what's not. It isn’t therapy or a support group, either. You will not be asked to “process” your feelings about food, revisit formative experiences with family meals or explore your body image issues. Anti Diet Weight Loss NeuroSlim® is an intuitive eating weight loss class --online--that can reshape your eating habits. That means reducing unnecessary hunger, quitting sugar, weakening cravings for fattening food and developing intense cravings for healthy ones. All through evidence-based techniques developed by the finest minds in neuroscience. No more yo-yo dieting, no more endless cravings, no more restrictive eating plans. The concrete, specific, evidence-based strategies in this program ends the toxicity of dieting--the deprivation, the white-knuckle resistance, the guilt, the perpetual failures. While most of NeuroSlim® borrows from neuroscience, you’ll also see many techniques and insights originating from other fields--like physiology, biology, anthropology and Addiction Medicine. It’s time to start listening to scientists outside the diet industry. They’ve figured out how to reshape our eating habits to produce permanent weight loss. All we have to do is follow their evidence-based advice. Welcome to our blog...and a thinner future!