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Eating is an experience to be thoroughly enjoyed! Below are a couple tips to help you start to adapt a sustainable healthy diet & eat without feelings of guilt.
Mindful Eating Tip 1|Use Your 5 Senses Before & While Eating
Using your 5 senses (sight, smell, taste, touch, hear/listen) is a mindful eating skill that will take your food enjoyment & appreciation to the next level. If you really take the time, this can also help you to understand a thing or two about your relationship with food.
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Unfortunately, we are often times overly hungry so we skip right over our 5 senses and just chow down. What can we do?
Mindful Eating Tip 2|Assess Your Phyical Hunger Level Before You Eat
If you can relate, I invite you to take a moment before you eat to tune into your body first to assess your physical hunger level.
- If you are not physically hungry, see if you’re responding to an emotional want.
- If so, this would be a great opportunity to instead journal & explore what you’re feeling and allow yourself to feel it. Going for a walk may also be helpful or talking with a friend. If you’re working with me 1-on-1, explore your thoughts in your food journal so together we can explore & understand how your emotions influence your eating behaviors to help you develop a healthier relationship with food. Let’s make peace with food so you can eat without any feelings of guilt!
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- If you are responding to your body’s physical hunger cues, what’s your level of hunger? If you’re on the overly hungry side, you may find that you scarf down your food, plate larger servings, or make less nutritious selections than if you were at a moderate level of hunger. If you’re overly hungry then using your senses can help. For example, take in the aroma of your food & visually observe what’s right in front of you as this can help draw you into the present moment, slow down your pace, and help you appreciate the food and all its enjoyment.
There is a sweet spot with hunger!
I encourage you to always be mindful & in tune with your body’s cues. When you start to feel hungry that’s your body’s sign that it needs fuel, so fuel it! Postponing eating may only lead to unhealthy eating habits.
If you’re working with me 1-on-1, you’re snapping a picture of your plate of food before you eat, which is a subtle way to help you use your sense of sight to visually process & take in the food your about to eat. When we do this, we not only visually process our food, but it also provides an opportunity to assess our portion sizes and look at the balance or lack of balance on your plate which allows us to make any beneficial modifications that support a healthy, balanced meal! And then we set the phone off to the side : )
Stay mindful of your hunger level before you eat as that does influence your ability to eat mindfully.
Take the time to savor & enjoy!
Wishing you a bright, beautiful week!
One way to increase your mindful eating skills is to simply begin your day with a dose of mindfulness setting the tone for the day ahead. That is exactly why I created a 30-Day Mindful Minute Morning Series. Click Here to come hang out and let’s take a moment to connect!
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