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A First Simple Secret

This discussion will clearly instruct you as to how to learn thedifference between mind hunger and stomach hunger.

It will give you the simple secret to keep slender and to never gainextra stomach, hip, buttocks and thigh fat again. Never.

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Ever see a fat aborigine? The reason why, is thatthey spend a substantial amount of their time looking for food andthey know the difference between mind hunger and stomach hunger.

Mind Hunger

Stomach Hunger

Hint: When your stomach is making noises, thats true hunger.

Hint: If you Think that youre hungry, you aint.

Take a look at any of the still wild tribes in the Amazon or NewGuinea and you will not find one obese or even fat person. Not one.


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You want a guarantee? Take any obese person like this guy

and place him into a 90 day hunter-gatherer environment where thenearest refrigerator is far and away.

It is a 100% certainty that you will not find this guy fat 90 days laterbut rather he will be a slimmed down and lean muscled man who isnow most definitely aware of stomach hunger as opposed tomind/brain hunger.

How I Know This.

True Story: Back in the late 60s, I had the occasion to spend July in

a 28 day survival course called Hurricane Island Outward BoundSchool. It was the first years opening of the Hurricane Island Schoolwhereby you learned to control panic and to overcome artificiallyinduced stress situations.


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On Hurricane Island, which was located in Penobscot Bay Maine, oneof our courses was how to solo survive on an island for 72 hours.

I well remember the famous author Euell Gibbons who wrote Stalkingthe Wild Asparagus, leading us about the main island and pointing tohere and there as to what was okay to eat and what we should leavealone.

At one point he stopped and picked up a purple sea urchin

Does this look tasty to you?

from a tidal pool, cracked it open and popped that poor morsel intohis mouth raw. Smacking his lips he then moved on to picking upsome seaweed and extolled the virtues of boiled seaweed.

After two days of training on the main island, we were then droppedoff at our respective tiny little islands with a canteen of water, fishingline, a plastic tarp and a sleeping bag along with a large empty canfor boiling water and six matches.

I placed my life jacket in a tree near the beach every morning andtook it down in the evening. Somewhere out of my sight, a boatwould be gliding by to check that I was still alive but they neverdirectly contacted me.

I have to digress here and tell you an interesting story.

One night on the main island, we were awakened about 2AM andhustled down to jump into assembled whale boats. We were thentaken to an island and the whole school, about 8 Watches, (mine was

the Grenfell Watch, named after a famous sea captain, andcomposed of 12 guys from different walks of life, several from theinner cities of Boston and NYC), strung ourselves out across thissmall island searching for the solo guy who did not put up hislifejacket as he was supposed to.


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Imagine 84 of us,(one Watch was out on the 72 hour solo), plus thestaff, some of whom had SEAL backgrounds, slowly moving acrossthe island in a long line with our flashlights bobbing up and down aswe moved down a brushy decline and stumbling back up the next hill,stepping over deadfalls and hoping like hell that we would not comeupon a corpse staring up at us in the starless night.

Every five minutes we had to call out our Watch and our names sowe wouldnt be lost. Grenfell Watch, call out!

After two hours of this, the staff gave up and we all piled back into thewhalers for a long wet ride home in the 3 foot swells and a cool stiffMaine wind blowing the sea spray into our faces.

It turned out that the solo guy had hailed a passing lobster boat,which took him to the mainland, and of course he never came back.

What a night!

Back to my little solo.

I had no food other than what I could find such as the ever so tastysea urchins or beach peas or boiled seaweed. I thought to myself,forget this stuff, Ill just drink water Instead of eating this stuff.

The fishing was a bust, as my Maine island get away, slowly slopedinto deeper water, and standing in 57 degree bone chilling waters tomy hips as I tried to cast my 12 feet of line with hooked sea urchin tocatch a fish, quickly became intolerable.

(I would have loved being left on this island)


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(This is the kind of island they stranded me on and the nearest island wasabout 10 miles away.)

I found a wild patch of raspberries on my little island and spent breakfast, lunchand dinner shooing away the local birds.

(Dinner is served sir)

I quickly discovered that it is one thing to be hungry and have therefrigerator nearby to assuage your hunger and it is quite another tobe hungry and have to expend energy finding food to eat such asharvesting my raspberries on the side of a steep rocky incline.


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Interestingly, there was a rock squirrel, which I was friendly with during my first24 hours solo. At the end of the second 24 hours, I was in a nasty poor mood

and was out to kill and eat the little guy. I never got close to him.

I had crossed the line between being simply snack brain hungrycivilized to being out and out truly stomach cutting hungry. Eventhough I knew I was going to be picked up early on the fourth day andtaken back to Hurricane Island, my stomach did not give a damnabout all my rationalizing and made me continually aware of its

demands.

Somewhere in the early hours of the third day, it happened.

My brain sent a direct order to my taste buds to shut off along withthe command imperative to find food. At that point, I realized thatcooked Brussels sprouts would have been greeted with joy. That bitof brain news was amazing to me, as I cannot stand cooked Brussels

sprouts. Yuck!

I soon found myself munching on beach peas and even boiled seaweed

andcould not taste a thing. Beach Peas. Great when you are stomach hungry.

I could not even taste the raspberries anymore. My pleasant andlighthearted self had disappeared, and in its place was a snarling andangry 19 year old wondering what the hell I was doing on a spec of aMaine Island in the middle of July.


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Actually I was picked up in a 20 foot motorized whaleboat but you get the picture

Early the next morning I was picked up and a chocolate bar wasshoved into my hands along with a big roll. No one tried to speak tome, as they knew from experience to let the savage eat first beforetrying a chat.

I did not recover my taste buds until later that evening when my brainsent the all clear to my stomach and to my mouth. What anexperience!

The point of this rambling is that my 72 hours stay on my little rocktaught me the difference between brain hunger and stomach hunger.

Once you know and understand this simple difference, you will onlyeat when you are stomach hungry and not brain hungry.

A Brief Discussion About Your Brain

As I said, your brain has to be reset in order for you to learn thedifference between stomach hunger and brain hunger.


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Your hypothalamus is the controller and thats where the action is.

(This is a photograph of the hypothalamus. Can you see anything? )

Of course, your 50 trillion cells of your body are all interconnectedand chatting with one another constantly, so your stomach lets yourbrain know that food is needed by sending a ghrelin hormone signalout to your hypothalamus.


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Its known by medical science that the hypothalamus is the overallmaster controller of body weight and appetite but no one knowsexactly how it works.

The hypothalamus manages sensory processing and it most certainlymanaged to cut off my taste bud processing.

On my little island, my stomach was very busy sending non stopsignals, courtesy of my ghrelin hormone to my hypothalamus that Iwas in need of food and which my brain then intellectualized into thewords, damn, but I am hungry!

Somewhere during my third day of my adventurous stay on my tinyisland, the non stop signals between my stomach and hypothalamusreset my brain beginning with the signal from my hypothalamus to mymouth taste buds that cut off all taste sensations.

That was then followed with the order: eat cooked Brussels sprouts,and anything else you can find.

That is the moment I learned the cutting difference between realhunger and simple brain hunger. To this day, I only eat when I knowthat I am hungry and I pay attention to my stomach signaling myhypothalamus no more food is needed at the present.


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Learn the difference between brain hungerand stomach hunger. Once you havelearned the difference, you will only eatwhen you are truly hungry.

How do you do this? Just find a small island and set up with waterand shelter but no food except what you can forage. Arrange to bepicked up early on the fourth day and that should do it.

Cant find an island nearby? Then try for a Friday through Sundaynight with only water and a handful of dried fruit and only a handful.

Like this.

Keep going until you know that you can easily eat the meal that youdislike the most.

Once you can eat that specific food without any hesitation then you

know that your hypothalamus has been reset and now you are awareof the visceral difference between stomach hunger versus brainhunger.

A Follow Up Corollary

Stop eating before you are stuffed. Is this ever you?

This is a simple rule and accomplishes two goals. The first is that youdo not get the stuffed to the gills feeling by over eating and thesecond goal you accomplish is to keep your weight balanced.


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A Third Follow Up CorollaryJust moderate exercise sir and madam. Keep moving, whether itswalking a mile a day or moving up every stairs that you can find to thesecond floor instead of taking the elevator, although sometimesfinding the stairs is next to impossible and in that case, take theelevator so you dont end up lost in the back end of the building.

So, stay slender and fit by simplystopping eating before you are full andonly eating when you are stomach andnot brain hungry.

Stay active on a daily basis and take thestairs whenever they are reasonable toclimb.

And Oh yes, if youre not sure if you aretruly stomach and not brain hungry, thenwait until you hear a few gurgleannouncements from your stomach that

its all clear to eat and to not gain weight.


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Follow these simple guides and yourbrain and stomach and body will thankyou.

Copyright August 2007: Hughes Creations Enterprises

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