Wednesday, May 26, 201010 Tips to Conscious Eating

Conscious eating is the thought process that goes into your food choices and how you eat.  If you overeat, you should read these tips on how to be consciously eating.

1. Begin by being open, curious and kind with yourself and your food choices.

2. Recognize that breaking free from the pain of overweight is mainly a desire to find a rhythm, an order, and a natural push for light in your life.

3. Why Do You Overeat? Do you eat to fill emotional voids?  Do you eat to ward off pain and anger? Do you feel guilty after eating a meal in which you couldn’t control your appetite?

4. It’s Not About the Food. Obesity is not a disease, but a symptom of one or more underlying emotional issues, and those emotional issues can be resolved.

5. Our thoughts create our reality. See your body as the miracle it is. Love it, and it will nourish your life.

6. Quit Thinking “I Am Fat”. If you are thinking how fat you are with every bite, with every waking moment, you are feeding your subconscious mind the idea, “I’m fat.”

7. Conscious Eating. Pay attention to the foods you buy, prepare, and eat. You’ll free yourself from destructive habits. Rather than leaving the table feeling overstuffed and lethargic, you’ll be energized and full of positive energy.

8. Tune in more closely to your own rhythms, habits, and needs. You’ll slowly but surely transform the way you feel about food, making you less likely to fall into spiraling habits of mindless eating and poor food choices.

9. Use Affirmations to Heal. From Louise Hay: In order to permanently eliminate a condition, we must first work to dissolve the mental cause of it and replace it with a new pattern that is healthier and supportive. This is why affirmation is a good tool to help you overcome certain conditions especially if you are experiencing resistance in your desired area to reach your goal.

10. Four Key Tips. Look forward to your food.  Slow down. Listen to  your environment.  Let go of physical tension.

If you are thinking about your food choices, if you are aware of your thinking and tendency to overeat, then you are working on your conscious eating.