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« The solution to sustainable weight loss begins in the head, not on the plate.” This is the credo that Nathalie Meer seeks to deconstruct surrounding myths regarding overweight, weight gain, and the effectiveness of diets.
As the neuro-behavioral nutrition coach, who holds a diploma in psychology and behavioral nutrition from her book, “Neurosciences, Epigenetics, and Sustainable Weight Loss Without a Diet” (published by Les 3 Chroniques), “95% of ‘dieters’ regain weight within three years,” and “in 80% of cases, following a diet leads to a greater increase in initial weight.”
The authors of the Meer® method, a new approach that uses psychology, physiology, and neuroscience to fight excess weight and lose weight in the long term, stress that “following a diet, restriction or even food substitution is a false friend.” In other words: wanting to lose weight through dieting is futile and counterproductive.
Heredity as a major factor in eating behaviors
If individuals who are overweight or gaining weight tend to blame their lack of willpower, their penchant for foods that are too fatty or too sweet, their excessive gluttony and obsession with food, or even their eating disorders, the cause of the excess weight should be sought primarily outside of the plate.
In reality, these guilty sources of bad habits are only the tip of the iceberg. According to Nathalie Meer, the relationship that we have with food is the expression of a neuro-unconscious intergenerational behavior buried inside oneself.
Rather than rationalizing nutrition or dissecting undesirable foods on the plate, it is necessary to understand the “reason” for overweight or weight gain. It means understanding what drives one to eat as well as the “traumas” anchored in our genes and passed down by previous lineages.
The Meer® method is not interested in what is on the plate but analyzes the behaviors that cause a person to become overweight: what is their internal experience, what behaviors are transmitted by previous generations and reproduced in the present,” explains Nathalie. The uniqueness of the approach lies in a program midway between nutrition and personal development, which is “inviting to reconnect to your deepest self.”
Intuitive nutrition and the adoption of new behaviors
For weight loss, the program proposes an accompaniment by guides in two axes. Firstly, it involves relearning how to eat instinctively by recognizing the signs of “true hunger.”
From this intuitive mode of eating, “we reconnect with our physiological sensations, we learn to eat when we are hungry, stopping when it is full,” explains Nathalie Meer. When we understand how real hunger works, we learn to eat in the space-time where real hunger signals are felt.
The second axis of the Meer method is based on epigenetics. This aims to identify “neuro-unconscious behaviors, the fruit of past generations” (fear of missing out, need for protection, obsession with food).
Nathalie Meer explains: “according to epigeneticists, the stress of past generations is directly encoded in genes (reversibly) and will be transmitted to the next generation, thus modifying innate behaviors.” For example, “ an ancestral lack of food can lead to obsessive behaviors related to food in overweight people.”
“Epigenetics is a protective program,” it is like superimposition that appears in DNA and modifies behaviors. If a dramatic situation occurs in a lineage, modified behavior can be transmitted to the next generation compared to what was innate to protect the next generation.
Nutrition as a regulator of emotions
This stress often leads to isolating and poorly adapted eating behavior, leading to food retention. “The Meer method allows, through dialogue, to understand and act on the protective role of excess weight,” explains Nathalie Meer. And adding: “We work on the reasons that lead the brain to modify the function of food. We work on changing habits, creating new synaptic states to change brain habits, like encouraging people to eat when something is wrong in their life, or eating to protect or calm themselves.”
“Overweight is not a contagious program, but it is a winning solution in times of stress,” the expert continued. “(…) From the perspective of epigenetics, overweight is a shield against difficult life, experienced as a battle.”
During this personalized accompaniment, the person achieves it gradually, through “a proprietary protocol and monitoring, to change the messages sent to the subconscious memory. “As the person no longer needs to carelessly protect themselves by eating, they eventually lose weight by eating what they want without restrictions,” summarizes Nathalie Meer.