The Documentation-Based Weight Loss Method: Cruise Phase - Coping with Emotional Lows and Sticking to the Principles

Humans are animals too, and throughout tens of thousands of years of history, we have faced the crisis of starvation, making hunger control a top priority. This is why, even with subcutaneous fat accumulation, the body's mechanisms still prioritize burning fat as a last resort for survival. To maximize fat storage, the body first reduces muscle mass to lower the basal metabolic rate.

Muscle is a type of tissue that is easily lost and easily gained. More muscle means a higher basal metabolic rate, leading to faster hunger. This is a fundamental law of nature.

However, this won't stop your weight loss efforts.

The body eventually has to start burning fat.

However, the opportunity to stop dieting and regain weight still lurks, lurking in the shadows.

The human body tends to maintain a consistent state, a function known as "homeostasis" in high school.

Whether it's hot or cold, the body maintains a consistent body temperature. Whether you drink a lot of water or almost none, the body maintains a consistent water content.

This is homeostasis.

Similarly, regardless of how much you eat, your weight almost stays at a constant level. Without this mechanism, by the time you eat too much rice cake during the Lunar New Year, you'd probably be a completely different person. However, the body doesn't gain weight simply by eating a little more, nor does it lose weight simply by eating a little less.

The reason you're overweight now is because you're eating too much, disrupting your body's balance. In other words, it's this "continuous effort to gain weight" that makes you fat.

However, through a diet tracking approach, consistently eating very little for several weeks, you gradually lose weight. This triggers the body's homeostasis mechanisms, which try to maintain a similar state, resisting this weight loss trend.

By manipulating hormones and glands, and using psychological tactics such as intense hunger, low mood, and feelings of helplessness, it attempts to make you give up on dieting.

At the same time, another term that worries us is "plateau." Because emotions can easily become low, if weight loss isn't achieved in just two or three days, one might waver. If weight gain occurs, one immediately feels "I've failed" or "I've rebounded," easily falling into despair.

Don't give up here! The current low mood and anxiety are precursors to the "changes on day 75." If you can overcome this hurdle, your body will change. Your physical balance will be reset, and you'll no longer feel the strong urge to return to your previous obese state.

During the cruising phase, you need to be mentally prepared to deal with the aforementioned anxieties about "having reached a plateau" and the "precursors to the changes on day 75."

At this point, let's once again realize the true value of the record-keeping weight loss method.

When feeling down or frustrated, you should review your record.