Everyday we are tempted to take a chance to take a short cut to accomplish tasks because we condition ourselves to do so. We want the easy life. We want to get something or achieve something effortlessly. For example: most of us are careless about our eating habits. This leads us to big trouble personally and to others as well. In the case of eating, we overeat and we get overweight. As for affecting others, our bodies become lethargic and our brain functions lose its sharpness. We get obnoxious and treat others harshly, curtly, bully, or just aggravate them. Our physical body is not in tune and starts to act abnormally.

As humans, we have that temptation to take short cuts. It is almost as if it was built inside us. Unless of course, we have disciplined ourselves to the point where we are conscious about almost everything we do, in which case we stay on target and in control and everything turns out satisfactorily. Many of us do not have this control. Why? Because we are lazy.

Unless you are poor, and food is scare, and you must eat like a glut out of necessity to stay alive then, there is no real need to gorge yourself with unnecessary amounts of food, periodically, from morning till night. Many of us do, because we created a bad habit to eat without thinking and not realize the impact and drawback it would have with our bodies.

As images of food surrounds us during or daily activities like when we drive, watch television, listen to radio broadcasts etc., our eyes, ears and brain pick up pictures of food that tempts us to satisfy this imaginary need for food. It is no surprise then that we have the urge to eat very often. Not that we are hungry, but because we succumb to temptation and we oblige our stomachs by filling it with food we really do not need. These food images tempt us and we cannot resist, having no conscious control, so we eat ourselves into a huge weight problem over a long period of time then we complain and spend unnecessary money to join a gym and start an exercise program.

This exercise program would fail because we continue to eat like we did before. And, since exercising takes some effort, it becomes a daunting task to take off the added pounds and our interest to lose weight gradually wanes and we give up. Again, we take the short cut and put the blame on the exercise program or something else for not accomplishing our intended purpose.

So, now that you know the culprits that create the imaginary hunger are temptation, lack of self discipline and control, and recognizing that we must be conscious about all of this, you can guard against it and stay slim and trim throughout the yearand onwards. The answer lies within you.

First, you must identify with the temptation and how it manifests itself in your being and work from there. We just covered this. Once you get to know this you would consciously move away from succumbing to the temptation. You already would have won the over eating battle half way, when you do this.

Again, here are the mechanics of how it happens:

At the sight of food images your eyes sends messages to your brain which activates the stomach lining and secrets gastric juices invoking the need for food. Your brain also sends a signal to your arm to put the food in your mouth. This is done automatically. And, you repeat it day after day.

Over a period of weeks or months your clothes get tighter, you behave sluggishly and get in a crabby mood. The weight begins to build gradually. The bad thing is that your body adjusts for the changes more and more everyday and you can handle the changes that would eventually take its toll on your body over a longer period of time.

Your stomach and buttocks and many other parts of your body start bulging and you now have a weight problem. And, then you notice it and decide to take action.

So, here is your starting plan to curb this bad habit:

1. Write out on a piece of paper your mission to remove the obsession to eat unnecessarily. Two lines for the most. Become conscious of the food images and messages you get from the media and resist the urges and temptation to eat unduly.

2. Write down a script of about two paragraphs telling yourself that you would heighten your awareness of subliminal food messages, eat healthy nutritional meals and the approved amount, and be disciplined about this nutritional plan. Exercise daily to burn excess fat and to stay trim and fit. Indicate also that if you fail youll punish yourself and indicate what that would be. Of course, be true to your self in this venture.

When you follow this path you should see dramatic results within a few weeks.

If you have difficulty or are less inclined to setting up a diet plan like this for yourself to manage your weight problem then I suggest that you let the professionals help you with your nutritional plan. It would be worth every penny.