The reason understands, will it really not be possible? Philosophical thinking from the perspective of weight loss

Always using other people's examples is not sincere enough. Today, I will personally go down and talk about how my weight loss process has unfolded with philosophical thinking.

Socrates has a saying called "the unity of knowledge and virtue", saying that if you know something that should be done and do not do it, it means that you do not really know it.

Wang Yangming said "the unity of knowledge and action", which means a little closer.

What we prefer to say is, "I understand the truth, but I can't do it," or "I still can't live this life after seeing so many truths."

So is the question cognitive, or is it in ability (willpower)?

This is related to the direction of our practice, and it is a big problem.

I think I've had the answer lately.

Over the past three years, my weight has been rising slightly but firmly.

The small concept is that it has increased by about 3 kilograms in three years. Friends who have seen me know that I don't look fat, at least not at first glance, and I look worried about weight.

So I've always remembered and hung on to the weight loss.

Think of it in stages, such as after a meal.

Three months ago, my weight had climbed to an all-time high, and that point was beyond my acceptable control—about the need for control, back to the beginning—and I really started to control my diet and run hard.

How to control diet? I have heard less carbs, can not touch sugar, occasionally can be light fasting, etc. I have heard, really my previous weight loss efforts are reflected in increasing cognition.

I (feel like) did as principled, like eating less rice, but eating two baked sweet potatoes after the meal to make up for it.

As a result, it is completely ineffective.

The scales still taunt me every morning.

At this step, it seems that Socrates is wrong, cognition is not enough to support virtue, and I have to cultivate self-control.

But the turning point happened when I accidentally opened a dietary diary in Huawei Health, which said that according to my goal, my daily calorie quota was 900 kcal, and also helped me calculate my daily calorie intake. So I began to sweep the calories of various foods.

Little did I know at the time that this discovery was the starting point of my miserable life.

Let's put it this way, I think the lowest card of vegetables, eggs, chicken breasts, every 100g has about 150 kcal, I only eat vegetables and chicken every day, I can only eat 600g, three meals a day! Snacks are not to mention, any one to look, the calories are not lower than 2000 kJ (500 kcal), that is, if you dare to eat snacks, a bag of puffed food can spend my food quota throughout the day.

At this point, I really won't eat baked sweet potatoes and snacks anymore, I really can't help but want to eat, and I can only allow myself to take a small evil step, find some low-calorie eating two bites and stop, and then have to consume more than 100 kcal to masturbate. No matter how much you make me eat more, I won't.

Because I know.

Some friends say I can't do it, I don't have enough self-control. But you don't really need self-control, you just need to know.

What I used to think of as "knowing" was only in direction and principle, not granular enough, and false knowing.

And the "knowing" that can really change behavior is less granular, clearer and clearer, and inescapable knowing.

You can examine yourself, those who know but can't do things, do they really know enough granularity?

For example, I know that drinking and smoking are not good, but have you ever felt bad?

A gentleman I know, who has smoked for decades and refuses to quit anyway, says that life is the greatest pleasure. Later, a lung nodule was found, and he quit smoking at the speed of light without repeating.

There was also a friend who was addicted to alcohol, and later wore a sports bracelet to find out that the resting heart rate increased by at least 10 the next day after drinking. Drinking was a matter of withdrawing from his life.

So, Socrates said, ignorance is the greatest evil.

This "knowing granularity", which I understand, can be disassembled into three layers:

The link established between behavior and consequence is clear enough, which may be aided by precise measurements

The foresight of consequences is clear enough

Construct a three-dimensional system from cognition, experience and feeling

This is also more consistent with how I feel in my user research work.

The top management of the enterprise knows that the user is the center, and the user value is the most important, but this kind of political correctness is similar to the knowledge I knew in the previous paragraph of weight reduction. And when this floating "knowledge" really touches the real world, it can almost be called the moment of awakening.

They will say from the bottom of their hearts the words they once knew.

For example, "Our work really brings value/trouble to the user, we need to do better".

Ignorance is the greatest sin, and even more terrible than ignorance is knowing the contours but not touching the true texture.

Well, finally, to review, taking my weight loss process as an example, from knowing to virtue, or from knowing to doing, can be roughly divided into three stages:

The first stage is to have ideas but no real drive (weight is not at a critical value), so there is no action;

The second stage is driven, and there is also action, but the action is not successful because the "granularity of knowing" is not enough;

The third stage knows that the granularity is enough, the action will be refreshed, and it is probably not far from being completed.

Friends who care about the results, report that this month the weight has dropped by 2 kg.