And I understand why it might seem that way.

For example, if you love sweets, then one candy with tea is torture. But if you have more, losing weight is almost impossible.

Without sweets, you turn into a bitch, and by the third day you're ready to attack people.
Isn't that torment?

In that context, "comfort" sounds like complete bullshit.

But what's the real hang-up here?

Often a person sees only two paths.

Path A: Eat whatever you want, in any quantity = comfortable, pleasant, no stress, but weight increases.

Path B: Take yourself in hand, cut out all tasty things, and heroically suffer = weight goes away, but life is pain.

And when we talk about comfort, they hear "Path A." And they get rightfully angry: "How can I lose weight if I eat my pastries for breakfast, lunch, and dinner?"

But comfort does not equal permissiveness and endless pleasures.

Comfort is about something else entirely.

1. Predictability.
When you understand what you will do if X happens.

X is any non-standard situation.

For example, if you have a gathering at a bar, you follow a pre-planned scenario: have a glass of wine and some cheese. Not heroically sit with a glass of water and a sour face.

Or when you come home after a hard day and don't zone out in front of the fridge wondering "what should I eat to lose weight." Instead, you have pre-prepared food or a plan for what to order for delivery.

2. Controllability
This is understanding what is happening to you right now, the ability to pause between stimulus and response.

For example, you're overwhelmed by the desire to eat a chocolate bar. Instead of running to the store or holding on with all your might, you have the skill to pause:

"Okay, stop. What's happening? Ah, I read the parent chat and I need to calm down with chocolate.

Okay. First, I'll pause, breathe, drink a glass of water, and if it doesn't go away, I'll eat the chocolate."

The pause reduces the impulse and allows the rational part to kick in.
This creates a choice, not an automatic reaction.


3. Manageable load.

This is giving up the role of a health-nut Stakhanovite and trying to do a five-year plan in three days.

When you don't try to squeeze 20K steps a day out of yourself, but do a manageable 5-6K, but consistently.
Or when you don't throw all the sugar in the trash on Monday, but make a manageable agreement with yourself.

Behavioral consistency is more important than perfection.

And one more important detail.

Comfort in weight loss is often confused with pleasure. But these are different things.

You don't expect an orgasm from brushing your teeth or washing dishes, do you? You just do it.

Same with weight loss. You just do it: you restructure your routine.

Yes, at first it will be unusual. But unusual doesn't mean painful and agonizing.

It's a process of adaptation that is worth going through.

This is where most people get stuck. Because it's hard to build a system alone.

It's easy to fall back into familiar extremes: either "relaxed" or "tightened the screws."

As a result, you go around in circles, making one futile attempt after another.

In the club "It Worked Out by Itself," we focus on reassembling the routine and building a new system.

We provide predictability, controllability, and manageable load.

So that weight loss stops being a swing of "now I try, now I relapse" and becomes a clear process with stable results.

Details on how we do this can be found here.

If you want to lose weight comfortably, join the club.

Often, shifts appear in the first month that weren't there before.

You can join for 1, 3, or 6 months.

To choose a plan and pay, follow the link:

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