When you sleep, your metabolism slows down considerably. That’s why when you wake up, you feel groggy and lazy at times. You need food; you need fuel to kick-start your metabolism and, in turn, get your body mechanism started. So you have breakfast. Your metabolism soars. If your next meal is lunch and thereafter dinner, the gap between each meal is too large. You will see slumps in your metabolism. The body metabolism will not be uniform through the day, which is why some people experience low energy levels and fatigue at certain times in the day. It’s a great habit to start eating every 2.5 to 3 hours. Why this specific time? Because it usually takes your digestive system approximately this time to completely digest your food or snack. So by the time the digestion is done, instead of keeping an empty stomach, you feed more food to your body, which means more energy, higher metabolism and high levels of energy. Plus you actually maintain a healthy weight and lose weight, because calories are burned by your body (metabolism) during the digestion process. When you eat every 2.5 to 3 hours you will find that your portion size at lunch and dinner will cut down considerably. This is because you will not be that hungry. Since you have small snacks during the day, your digestion will be uniform, and remember, the smaller your meals, the more efficient is your digestion, leaving little or no chance for food to get converted to fat and stored in your body.
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Sunday, 1 November 2015
What is intutive eating?
What is intuitive eating? Intuitive eating is listening to your body to choose your foods instead of relying on external regimes and rules. In today's diet obsessed society, most people have moved far from the concept of intuitive eating because they try to intellectualize their diets by attempting to adhere to rigid calorie limits or by deeming particular food groups off-limits. By creating such restraints, the general reaction is to rebel against them and you automatically begin to crave more calories and the very foods which you are ‘not supposed’ to be eating. Intuitive eating with a food journal can counter this unhealthy and derailing behavior because you allow yourself to eat ANYTHING. However, because you are keeping a food journal, you will be a lot more likely to listen to your hunger/energy needs when making your food choices because you will have to reveal everything you consume in the food journal.
For this to happen you will have to listen to your body. Pay attention and focus. When you feel full STOP EATING. Push your plate away. I know you may waste food by doing this, but in a few days you will automatically serve yourself less food and there will be no wastage.
Follow these two golden rules and you will never have to diet again. You can enjoy all of your favorite foods. Pizza and ice cream too. But eat slowly and stop when you’re full, even if you have half a slice of pizza left or half a scoop of ice-cream. Just stop.
Practice these two rules diligently and savor the results you reap.
The ‘food and exercise journal’ is designed to help you track important records as you adopt the EFS model.
Food and exercise journals are a powerful tool if you want to learn the art of intuitive eating.
For this to happen you will have to listen to your body. Pay attention and focus. When you feel full STOP EATING. Push your plate away. I know you may waste food by doing this, but in a few days you will automatically serve yourself less food and there will be no wastage.
Follow these two golden rules and you will never have to diet again. You can enjoy all of your favorite foods. Pizza and ice cream too. But eat slowly and stop when you’re full, even if you have half a slice of pizza left or half a scoop of ice-cream. Just stop.
Practice these two rules diligently and savor the results you reap.
The ‘food and exercise journal’ is designed to help you track important records as you adopt the EFS model.
Food and exercise journals are a powerful tool if you want to learn the art of intuitive eating.
What is the right way to eat?
Take a morsel, put your spoon and fork down, chew the morsel of food slowly, real slow, connect with your food, try and understand the spice in it, the different flavors, chew it well and then swallow.
What happens when you eat slowly?
Digestion starts in your mouth. By the time your well-chewed food reaches your stomach, it’s partly digested, enabling the complete digestion to happen quickly in your stomach and eliminating chances for any food to be stored away as fat. When you eat slowly, you will find that you eat much less than you would usually eat if you ate fast. It is true that the stomach takes about 20 minutes to send a signal to your brain saying that you are full. Try serving yourself with half your usual portion and eat slowly. You will find that you will fill up sooner. All problems of gas, acidity, heartburn, indigestion will disappear for good.
Most of us tend to eat more than our bodies require, because we eat too fast. When you eat slowly, you will consume the right amount of food that your body requires, and this will do away with consuming extra calories that make you fat.
What happens when you eat slowly?
Digestion starts in your mouth. By the time your well-chewed food reaches your stomach, it’s partly digested, enabling the complete digestion to happen quickly in your stomach and eliminating chances for any food to be stored away as fat. When you eat slowly, you will find that you eat much less than you would usually eat if you ate fast. It is true that the stomach takes about 20 minutes to send a signal to your brain saying that you are full. Try serving yourself with half your usual portion and eat slowly. You will find that you will fill up sooner. All problems of gas, acidity, heartburn, indigestion will disappear for good.
Most of us tend to eat more than our bodies require, because we eat too fast. When you eat slowly, you will consume the right amount of food that your body requires, and this will do away with consuming extra calories that make you fat.