Neurocoach names 5 unusual ways to trick your brain into eating less chocolate

When the brightness of life and pleasant experiences come to an end, the craving for chocolate begins. The food industry has invented many incredible varieties of the product: with caramel, salt, pepper, mint, orange, nuts and cookies, raisins. As if on purpose to make it hard for us to choose and want more and more.

Greed for new flavors tends to be unsatiable. But there are a few proven ways to trick your brain into eating less sweet confectionery.

Make the process meaningful

No, I’m not encouraging you to sing a hymn to chocolate. But I recommend not eating the product on the go, while watching a movie or scrolling through your social media feed. The brain at such moments does not have time to feel the depth of flavor and track the amount eaten.

If we’re talking about a small bar of chocolate, it’s not so terrible. But in the same way you can swallow a large portion and not notice. Especially if the product is delicious, the movie is interesting, and you’re feeling a little sad and lonely.

Slow food or slow food absorption

Try putting a piece of chocolate on your tongue, feel how it slowly melts in your mouth, how viscous and warm its structure is. The flavor effects will be much more vivid and the absorption process will slow down.

The feeling of fullness will come much faster. And you may well be enough one or two slices instead of a whole bar.

Essential oils

Aromas create additional flavor nuances and enhance their fullness. Think of yourself with a runny nose. It was the lack of flavors that made food seem bland and unpalatable. You could hardly distinguish an apple from a pear or even a potato, which was similar in texture to an apple. And flavorless coffee was just a bitter, invigorating drink.

If you inhale the essential oil before drinking chocolate, the flavor of chocolate will become brighter and acquire additional flavor. The aromatic liquid does not need to be dripped on the chocolate and consumed internally. It is enough just to inhale.

Orange, mint, chocolate, lavender, sandalwood, patchouli – choose to your taste. You can experiment and try several at once.

Affirmations

As a rule, we eat chocolate when we lack love, warmth, security, comfort. It seems to us that we are not good enough, something is wrong with us, someone does not pay attention to us, and we try to fill this void with a sweet, which increases mood by activating the production of endorphins or hormones of happiness.

If while eating chocolate say the affirmation: “I am enough. I am loved,” it will take much less chocolate to feel happy.

Get to the bottom of it

You can become your own coach and psychologist and try to figure out what you want instead of chocolate. And then give it to yourself. This requires maximum honesty with yourself. A pen and paper will make the process even more profound. What is unloaded onto a blank sheet of paper is released from the subconscious mind.

So, put the chocolate in front of you, look at it and ask yourself: what do I really want? I don’t want a sweet, but…. And write out all the things that come to mind: new experiences, warmth, hugs, love, sex, to be in the state of a child, a holiday, etc.

Then ask yourself: how can I give myself that? Perhaps it’s time to meet up with friends, go to a movie, take a short trip, or just go to the spa and get a dose of touch and warmth through a massage.

Of course, just eating chocolate is much easier than getting your true needs met. But if you truly listen to your desires and add to the sweet product what your soul is asking for, it will be a profound therapy for your soul and body.