Mediation Can Help You Eat Smarter
Making the choice to eat smarter, healthier and less to promote weight loss is fantastic. Carrying through on the plan, however, is often easier said than done. If it’s time to lose weight by making better choices at the table, mediation can help more than many people realize.
Meditation doesn’t have to involve long sessions sitting on a floor with palm up to the air. It really is nothing more than focusing the mind on a singular point while enabling other thoughts to fleet away for a time. At the dinner table, mediation techniques can promote smarter eating while enabling some people to eat a great deal less than they normally might.
Here are some tips to get started:
• Be mindful of the foods selected – Before even sitting down and digging a fork in, carefully consider the food options. Select leaner, healthier choices and only put appropriate serving sizes on a plate.
• Concentrate on eating – Once a healthy meal is served, employ mediation techniques to truly enjoy the foods presented. Take a single bite, put the fork down and then chew (and taste) the food as it’s meant to be. This careful, slow and deliberate act of eating helps prevent binging while also helping make certain the sensation of being full strikes earlier in the meal.
• Avoid distractions – Make concentrating on foods and how much has been consumed easier by eliminating or reducing distractions. This means walking away from a smartphone, turning off a television and putting down a book to focus on the meal and what is being consumed rather than something else.
Obesity has reached epic proportions in the United States. While mediation alone won’t help people shed pounds, simple techniques can enable people to better control what they eat while helping them avoid binges and the consequences of emotional eating.
Meditation doesn’t have to involve long sessions sitting on a floor with palm up to the air. It really is nothing more than focusing the mind on a singular point while enabling other thoughts to fleet away for a time. At the dinner table, mediation techniques can promote smarter eating while enabling some people to eat a great deal less than they normally might.
Here are some tips to get started:
• Be mindful of the foods selected – Before even sitting down and digging a fork in, carefully consider the food options. Select leaner, healthier choices and only put appropriate serving sizes on a plate.
• Concentrate on eating – Once a healthy meal is served, employ mediation techniques to truly enjoy the foods presented. Take a single bite, put the fork down and then chew (and taste) the food as it’s meant to be. This careful, slow and deliberate act of eating helps prevent binging while also helping make certain the sensation of being full strikes earlier in the meal.
• Avoid distractions – Make concentrating on foods and how much has been consumed easier by eliminating or reducing distractions. This means walking away from a smartphone, turning off a television and putting down a book to focus on the meal and what is being consumed rather than something else.
Obesity has reached epic proportions in the United States. While mediation alone won’t help people shed pounds, simple techniques can enable people to better control what they eat while helping them avoid binges and the consequences of emotional eating.
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