From the great team at Metabolic Jumpstart
Mindful eating for better results in losing weight
Mindful eating is a simple and powerful way to eat, which can help you achieve more than results for your waistline. You’ll also discover a more satisfying and healthy relationship with food.
What is mindful eating?
Mindful eating involves choosing to eat food that both pleases and nourishes your body by using all your senses to explore, savour and taste the food. By also paying close attention to body’s internal hunger-fullness cues and your environment, mindful eating elevates your awareness of eating triggers, so you can break bad habits and feel more in control of your food choices.
Mindless eating
Professor Brian Wansick, author of “Mindless Eating” says most of us eat too much food or the wrong foods, simply because we eat ‘mindlessly’ without thinking enough about what’s going into our mouths. Mindless eating includes:
Eating at certain times rather than when you are genuinely hungry.
Eating because food is there or someone has offered you a snack.
Eating when distracted, most commonly in front of the TV.
Eating too fast without even tasting the food. Eating to finish your plate or get value for money at a restaurant.
Eating in response to emotional triggers including stress, anxiety, boredom, sadness or happiness.
All these negative behaviors are often learnt from a young age and can now be re-programmed with a mindful eating approach.
More next week