Wednesday, February 8, 2012

Mindful Eating Is Key

While I haven't been practicing it, the premise comes back - again and again.  Being mindful when you eat helps you have a healthy relationship with food.

Here are the general ideas:

• Allowing yourself to become aware of the positive and nurturing opportunities that are available through food preparation and consumption by respecting your own inner wisdom.
• Choosing to eat food that is both pleasing to you and nourishing to your body by using all your senses to explore, savor and taste.
• Acknowledging responses to food (likes, neutral or dislikes) without judgment.
• Learning to be aware of physical hunger and satiety cues to guide your decision to begin eating and to stop eating.

Just eat.  Don't talk, read, watch TV, surf the web.  Focus on your food.

Sometimes, I feel like if I had to stop what I'm doing to eat something, I wouldn't eat it!!  Eureka!  Maybe this is the key.  Solely eat.  There are kitchen tables everyplace I hang my hat.  It's time to start putting them to use.

p.s. Did the 30 minute workout today - alternating cardio and weights.  I'm starving!  Water and fruit!!! 

This IS going to happen. 

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