Inspired by one of my students, Michelle Hovey Swerin, who wrote her master’s project on mindful eating, and my friend Selene Vega, PhD, who has created a beautiful healthy eating food blog, I’ve decided to create a mindful eating blog of my own. My initial intention is to simply notice what I am eating, when I am eating and why I am eating without trying to change my eating habits. My goal is to mindfully create healthy and satisfying eating habits, and to slowly and naturally return to a healthy weight. To accomplish this goal, each day I will photograph my food before eating it. I will slowly and mindfully eat my food, and I will also notice how I feel after I eat and how my mind, body and spirit respond to different foods. Below are the photos from my first day of mindful eating. My primary insight from day one is that the chocolate chip cookie was not very tasty and I felt sick after eating it – a slight head ache and stomach ache. I also felt a bit foggy. It was definitely not a satisfying food. It felt more like a drug. Why would I want that in my body? Interesting question.
Lisa’s Mindful Eating Blog
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