A Slice of Heaven & The Sweet Smell of Success

Stephen Morrison

12 years ago

I’m not new to dieting. This wasn’t the first time I had declared that I was going to get fit and it wasn’t the first time I had vowed to succeed. But deep down, I knew something was different. This time I wouldn’t launch myself into a restrictive starvation mode eating pattern. This time I would do it right. This time I would use my failures to fuel my success

And I did this EVERY Friday for 10 months. Often accompanying it with a bag of sports gums. For Friday was my cheat day. Now, I am not here to say that my method of weight loss is better than anyone else’s but I can only testify to what worked for me. And I tried a fair few things to varying degrees of success.

And Pizza Friday worked…for me. All week I enjoyed a diet of chicken, fish, pork and beef with complex carbohydrates. But on Fridays I loaded myself with starch and sugar. And it was heaven. Pizza had never tasted so fine and any time I felt like wavering, I just thought of the coming Friday. And if that wasn’t enough, I’d go and stand outside the nearest takeaway.

Remember, I did say that I tried a fair few things.

One of these was Specific Olfactory Stimulation (an SOS to the brain). According to people a lot smarter than me: ” inhaling the scents of food, in the absence of food, causes early satiety, squelches food cravings and decreases appetite by “fooling” the brain into thinking that one has eaten a proportional amount of food. In the end, this process turns off hunger, helps the user to stop eating sooner and thus controls the amount of food consumed ‐ a direct link to caloric consumption”…It also makes you look a bit weird as you hold your head up high and sniff the air. But hey, as you’ll learn, I am a try anything kind of guy and surprisingly, it worked….for me.

Reference:

http://www.slimscents.com/pdf/olfactorystimulation.pdf

A Slice of Heaven & The Sweet Smell of Success was last modified: October 26th, 2017 by Stephen Morrison