If you don’t have faith that you can and will lose weight, then you won’t be able to lose weight. Faith is both a scientific and a spiritual principle. It is spiritual in the sense that it cannot be perceived by the five senses. For example, you can see the effects of the wind, but you cannot see the wind or what causes it. Faith is scientific in the sense that there is a particular method by which faith causes the effects you want based on how the mind is structured or works.

If you know how the mind works, then you can have reality-based faith that it will produce the results you want. — But then it is no longer faith or belief; is now a knowledge. You know it’s going to work just like you know that two plus two equals four. All you have to do is know and apply the method.

So how does the mind work and what is the corresponding method? The first thing to understand is that what we are talking about here is self control. We were not designed with wonderful physical, mental, and emotional faculties without the means or methods to control them. That would make no sense at all. You wouldn’t have arms or legs and you wouldn’t have the control to move them pretty much the way you want to move or use them. Similarly, you would not have thoughts and feelings without also having the means to control those thoughts and feelings. Same with your appetite. You couldn’t have an appetite without also having the means to control it.

The second thing to understand is that overeating is a habit, and all habits, good, bad, or neutral, are located in the subconscious part of your mind. And the only way to deal with something that is subconscious is to separate yourself from what you are used to. Your habit is a mental and/or emotional attachment, in this case to food, and the opposite of attachment is detachment.

So the solution or the method is mentally and emotionally separate of the food you are eating, while you are eating it. You and food are not one thing, but two separate entities. The method is to keep the two separate. Keeping them in their respective positions. One as a sole provider of fuel to live, the other as a sole consumer of fuel to live. Everything else is secondary, like how good it tastes, looks and smells, how nutritious it is, the amount of fat and calories, etc.

Separating from food in this way gives you the clarity to know if you’re eating for the right or wrong reason, knowing when your body is satiated, and the power to effortlessly stop at that exact spot.

This is the Law of Detachment Weight Loss Method