I’m sure you’ve heard about the NEW diet craze that’s sweeping the nation?
100% Organic, The Hammer Diet is exploding and people are feeling the results in the most dramatic ways.
In this day and age of progress there’s an increasing attraction to the return to the basics, to a day when life was simpler and more pure. You see it in the organic movement, the home garden movement, in the all around move to simplify.
And let’s face it, diets have become increasingly complex in the past decade. Eat this. Don’t eat that. Timing, amounts, calorie counting.
The Hammer Diet isn’t Paleo but it’s got some prehistoric elements in common with it
The Hammer Diet isn’t Paleo but it’s got some prehistoric elements in common with it. It’s not even based on eating special or select foods at all. It works deeper than any other diet–on the more primitive mind that compels us to eat things which are counter to our wellness and existence for that matter.
Programmed Survival is Killing Us
You see, you and I come with a programming for survival. We want to live–both consciously and in a deeply programmed autonomic selves. And part of this living thing has been dependent on food for all long as humans have been on this planet. We don’t eat, we die.
This makes perfect sense. But the programming for survival changed in the last century. Where once not eating meant certain death, now eating is the more common path to death. For we come from scarcity and have been transported through technological advances to an almost infinite abundance.
So our brains know we need to “eat less,” but our autonomic self knows only to eat more. Thus, we go on a diet and the brain–the thinking mind–tries to out wrestle the autonomic survival mechanisms. It can work at moments–enough to provide a false sense of control but ultimately it’s like screaming louder and louder at your computer to stop processing data. It’s doing what it’s supposed to be doing and doesn’t stop when you scream at it.
That’s where the 100% Organic Hammer Diet comes in. Rather than playing mind games, trying to change behavior from outside in, the Hammer Diet works on the primitive level where the wiring itself is. It deals only with pain, pleasure and survival. With The Hammer Diet you are basically resetting your computer–just pushing the reset rather than screaming our hoping that things change.
The trick is in sending a clear, direct and sudden signal beyond the mind, to the deeper programmed self which can interrupt the primitive programming. Rather than “thinking your way out” or through you just “shock” it clear.
The Hammer Diet is producing dramatic results and changes in behavior through a rare integration of both Classical Conditioning and Operant Conditioning.
Classical Conditioning is a form of learning in which one stimulus (the conditioned stimulus or CS) comes to signal the occurrence of a second stimulus, the unconditioned stimulus or US. The US is usually a biologically significant stimulus such as food or pain that elicits a response from the start; this is called the unconditioned response or UR. The CS usually produces no particular response at first, but after conditioning it elicits the conditioned response or CR.
The most well known example of Classical Conditioning is Pavlov’s classic experiments with food, dogs and a ringing bell. After repeated bell-food pairings the bell alone created the conditioned response and caused the dogs to salivate.
Beyond the Classical Conditioning element, The Hammer Diet incorporates Operant Conditioning to add a “layer” of positive behavior reinforcement, and not just eliminate the primitive “reactive” behavior.
Operant conditioning is a form of learning in which an individual’s behavior is modified by its consequences. Operant conditioning is distinguished from classical conditioning in that it deals with the modification of “voluntary behavior.” Operant behavior operates on the environment and is maintained by its consequences, while classical conditioning deals with the conditioning of reflexive (reflex) behaviors.
The Hammer Diet: 3 Simple Steps
I know I mentioned that The Hammer Diet is simple. I mean dirt, stupid simple. It’s the exact opposite of every radical life-changing diet out there, most of which are gloriously failing.
You don’t need any book to get started. There’s nothing you have to read, study, write down. This–what I’m about to share–is all there is. Don’t get fooled by more complex imitations or people who will try to benefit personally or financially by trying to make The Hammer Diet more complex than it really is.
What you do need:
1. A Hammer. Yes, a real, solid, good quality, sturdy hammer. Get a NEW one. Don’t use something you’ve used around the house, the has rust on it or has any other history or association. Get a spanking new, shiny hammer.
2. An ice pack. Preferably a really cold one.
How to Hammer Diet : 1-2-3
1. Remain alert. When you feel the craving, need, desire to eat something that is not healthy, good for you or is going to cause you to gain weight–for example, say you reach for a sugary sweet doughnut first thing in the morning. The moment you sense this desire, before you grab the food, pull out your hammer and smack your thumb good and hard.
This is the Classical Conditioning part. The shock of pain will send a signal into the primitive brain interrupting the message and disrupting the conditioned response and desire for junky food.
2. While your thumb is pounding, the pain at a peak, eat something healthy. Not a lot but as in the case above, have a few bites of apple.
3. While you’re chewing the apple–the healthy choice–wrap your throbbing thumb in the ice pack. As you’re eating something healthy, the relief begins and what you have here is behavior reinforcement or Operant Conditioning.
And that’s all the is to it. As for how long it takes to completely rewire your desires, to replace all poor eating habits and cravings with desires for life affirming foods, we don’t know exactly. The science is not in yet. But as you are, we’re all hoping that it takes before you lose that thumb. Of course, I’m sure you too would rather be thin and healthy than have two thumbs.
Here’s to your body and life taking on the shape you most desire!
Hammer Away…
Shawn
NOTICE: Just in the event you’ve been living on a very sheltered island for a few decades and have lost all sense of humor–or are so desperate for something that works that you want to believe anything, please make note that this is a JOKE!
It’s meant to make an example of the absurdity of much of the weight loss wisdom. Please don’t buy a hammer unless you need one in your job or around the house. And while it worries me to have to say this, don’t go pounding your thumb with anything unless by accident. Thank you!
23. July 2012 at 8:33 pm
I am totally on board – I have a mallet here at the ready!!
7. August 2012 at 12:45 am
Bring it dude.. and drop the pounds freely!!