The final stage of the record-keeping weight loss method: getting on track and achieving weight control.

Step Six: Entering Orbit – Weight Loss Ends

The so-called "record-based weight loss" method involves recording essential data related to your body to achieve greater control over it. Consistently keeping a record will gradually help you understand your own body.

Simply pay attention to what you eat: stop as soon as your body no longer wants it. By only eating what you crave, you can maintain your original body shape. This is the final stage of the record-based weight loss method – reaching orbit.

The weight loss ends here. It's not stopping, but rather graduating.

Even without rockets or engines, artificial satellites don't fall back to Earth. They can travel through the vast universe without any force. This is because once in orbit, gravity and centrifugal force are balanced.

Similarly, you can maintain a slim figure without any weight loss effort. This is the final stage of the record-based weight loss method – entering orbit.

Now, even I'm surprised at how little I'm eating.

Thinking about it, it makes sense. I'm not very tall, and my bones below the shoulders are more slender than average. I don't like exercising much, and I'm almost 50, so eating less is to be expected.

The obese person I used to be didn't have the sensors to detect my body's desires. No, it wasn't that I was born without these sensors; I simply forgot to be aware of my body's needs, completely forgetting their existence.

In aviation, there's a concept called instrument flight. In the dark, relying solely on maps, radio, compasses, and speedometers to calculate the aircraft's current position and control it.

Compared to visual flight, which involves recognizing terrain and target buildings, instrument flight demands higher skill and precision. However, this skill can be mastered with training.

For people like us, driven by desire, training ourselves to sense our body's needs also requires the meticulousness and precision of instrument flight.

We are completely unaware of what's happening inside our bodies.

How our food is digested, how much of it is stored in our bodies, and in what form—these are all things we cannot see. What we know is simply data measured externally, such as what we ate at what time, how many kilojoules, our weight in kilograms, our body fat percentage, and our waist circumference in centimeters.

In other words, this isn't visual flight, but rather instrumental flight relying on data.

Instrumental flight relies on important maps, radios, compasses, speedometers, etc. Similarly, record-based weight loss relies on recording.

Where you are currently flying, which direction you are flying in, and what your speed is.

This is equivalent to recording what you ate today, how much your weight has changed, and your current weight.

So-called record-based weight loss is essentially about achieving greater control over your body by recording essential data related to your health.

So, how long should we continue this instrument flight? At what point can we declare the weight loss over?

Even after the weight loss is over, should we continue to work on it to prevent weight rebound?

In the orbital phase, we will eventually transition from instrument flight to visual flight. This means that recording stops, and calorie restriction is no longer necessary.

Therefore, let's further reinforce the feelings of hunger and fullness that we are aware of during the re-acceleration phase.

First, let's represent hunger and fullness on a scale of 1 to 10.

(The stomach is about the size of a person's clenched fist. When you're full, your stomach should be bulging.)

Eating more than a level 10 will cause your stomach to rupture. In a competitive eating contest, reaching the point where you can't eat anymore is equivalent to a level 10.

Conversely, feeling dizzy and nauseous from hunger is level 1.

In daily life, we generally don't experience either of these extreme situations; usually, we live between levels 2 and 9.