Food & Health
We all have relationships: with our parents, children, partners, and co-workers. We have
also seen that, for better or worse, we have a relationship with our food. To have a
healthy relationship with food means that one is able to eat for the reasons of
physiological rather than emotional hunger and to stop eating at a point when the body
and mind are truly satisfied. In order to have a healthy relationship with food, one must
first have permission to eat. Our diet mentality has robbed us of even having permission
to eat. http://www.yemade.com
Many of us don’t even know when we’re hungry or comfortably satisfied. If our urge to eat
is triggered by external situations such as the time of day or the availability of food,
we may lose the awareness of our body’s messages of hunger. If eating is our primary
coping mechanism for dealing with uncomfortable feelings, we may never experience
physical hunger since we are medicating ourselves with food before we even experience the
sensations of hunger.
When you watch inner signals of hunger you tend to make food choices without feeling
guilt; honor hunger, respect the fullness and enjoy the pleasures of eating.
The basics of eating involves the taste buds present on your tongue. If you take
gargantuan bites that your mouth brims with food and your cheek is packed solid. In that
case you can’t even taste 90 percent of the food you are swallowing. You are doing
something, but, not tasting the food. http://www.slimmeizitang.com
A healthy relationship with your food allows you to appreciate eating at a relaxed pace
that benefits you. Fortunately, you are more in control of this kind of relationship than
most others. Unlike your partner, you can determine exactly what all the facets of this
significant other-your food-are like. As opposed to personal relationships, where each of
you can have competing agendas, foibles and weaknesses to work through, developing a
relationship with your food is completely under YOUR control. Also, there’s no problem
leaving one set of foods for another.
From a dietary standpoint, majority of us go for the quickie, and the point of eating is
to finish. Finish and then do something else. Thus, the process of eating becomes nothing
more than the interval before we’ve satisfied our urge so we can go back to “important”
things. Enjoying your food doesn’t mean getting to the end as fast as you can. It means
spending as little time eating as possible! http://www.ondietday.com
We need to think differently and approach diet and health from a mature point of view.
This implies, of course, that our old immature points of view can be “upgraded” very
easily if we want them to be.
Learning to differentiate between physical or emotional hungry. If you’re not sure, drink
some water, as you may be dehydrated. Take a few slow deep breaths, as fatigue and stress
often masquerade as hunger. If you realize you’re not physically hungry, ask yourself
what triggered your desire for food. Look for alternate options to fight stress like
exercise, meditation, calling a friend, being in nature, taking a relaxing bath.
Eating is a joy, not something to treat like a nuisance. You have to be there when you
eat. Food is a pleasure, not something to be inhaled so quickly you can’t even taste it.
Retraining what and how we eat ultimately builds this new relationship. Some will
undoubtedly see it as ironic that, in the end, simply interacting in a healthy way with
your food is all that’s needed to take the weight off. http://www.ouick.com
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