One of the most popular reasons to lose weight is to meet a prospective mate. And one of the most popular reasons for gaining weight is by losing one.

Anyone who has been in love can attest to the weight loss power of the feeling. Love seems to fill a person up to a degree where they lose their appetite.

The problem, however, is that most people cannot stay in love forever and people who lose weight to get married often gain it back later.

Doctors say that love causing weight loss is most likely a result of the chemicals released in the brain when we fall in love. When a person falls in love, his/her brain releases chemicals called dopamines and monoamines, the same chemicals that give us a feeling of satiation when we eat.

Modern Dieticians are reigning in this discovery and applying it to a new method of weight loss called spiritual weight loss. The concept of spiritual weight loss relies on the concept that ?No matter how you perceive it, love can revolutionize your relationship with food. This is because the love inside of you is not only strengthening and healing, it is fulfilling,? (Moran).

Other Advocates of this spiritual diet say that the diet works by using two practices. The first is mindful eating and the second is eating for love.