What is Social Dieting?
I coined this phrase in 2019. I was, at the time, eating clean food at home – no junk, chocolate, takeaways etc. If I went out with friends, I could cheat on the diet with desserts and alcohol and suchlike. The hard work was done in the supermarket. Avoiding the junk. Buying in the raw meat and veg. Making the right decisions there, then progress followed that. Following recipes, spending time in the gym mixing classes with sessions, and home workouts allowed for better fitness.
That’s what I’ll do from today onwards. So how does this tie to psychology?
We all like food. When we eat, we get dopamine. Dopamine, along with serotonin, is a neurotransmitter. These are the only two things we will ever like, fundamentally behind everything we eat and divulge in. Dopamine is addictive, serotonin is not. In the case of food, it’s the sugar and salt in food that we can become addicted to, which is why so many of my clothes – particularly trousers – don’t fit any more.
I’m around 87-88kg at the moment. Would be great to be under 80. This starts today.
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