Mindful Eating

Mindful eating helps people make better food choices and lose weight.Like almost all strategies it encourages weight loss.Here you can learn the Pros and the Cons of the Mindful eating.

What is mindful Eating?

The Mindfulness is about the present moment.It is about changing the bad habits of eating.The Mindfulness helps us control our emotions and make smart decisions about the way we eat.Mindful eating helps us avoid environments where we might overeat.

When is mindful eating important?

Due to stress people make bad choices about their eating habits.Many environments predispose people to forget their diet.For example:

Going to the Cinema and taking Popcorn without feeling any Hunger.

Eating while watching TV and being unaware of the amount Food.

After a stressful day buying “junk” food,so that you feel better in a short term.

We should be aware of the food we eat and make a flexible diet:calorie and macro counting.Food choices are important to keep ourselves full and healthy.

How do we mindfully eat?

Our habits are formed in over many many years and are pre-programmed in any given situation.We must be aware of the triggers and then make our food choices.

At home,we should not eat in front of the TV,because we do not make the best food choices while watching it.We should also avoid thinking in short term.

Anything else we need to consider?

Mindful eating alone is not recommended,if we are still unaware of what food choices we should be making.

For Example,nuts are described as healthy but actually they are highly calorific.We should be aware of the amount of food we have,because no matter how mindful you are or healthy it’s perceived to be, is still going to impact negatively on your efforts.

Long term, the ultimate goal of nutrition education, which food logging/tracking can be great for, combined with mindful eating leads to a condition of intuitive healthy eating where we have educated ourselves on food values and have created better lifestyle habits and reprogrammed our food response to specific ‘high-risk’ environments and emotional states. This gives us the capacity to maintain a healthy weight whilst not having to track or miss out on foods we enjoy because we have the capacity to know our individual limits and regulate foods accordingly.