Homework
Did you do your homework? 🙂
No worries!
If you missed your Commit-To-Awesome weekly update exercise here it is again:
How to Be Present While Eating…
Do you KNOW when you are hungry?
Do you KNOW when you are full?
Many times, we don’t! So how do we know when to eat and how much?
Ever wonder why this happens, and what to do about it?
Being “PRESENT” helps you tune-in, and really LISTEN to your body. It is a way of paying closer attention to what is REALLY going on with you, on the inside
For more reading….
A useful resource
Mindful Eating: A Guide to Rediscovering a Healthy and Joyful Relationship with Food–includes CD
Assess Your Hunger….
One way to raise our awareness, is to pause for a moment, HUNGER CHART
and assign a number to the “level” of our hunger.
Over time, this can be an effective tool to understand our body,
and our patterns of behavior, and increase our ability to
make conscious decisions about our eating choices.
- Create a Hunger Level Food Journal: Your hunger level before eating (on a scale of 1-10), your thoughts, feelings, current actions (what you are doing), food eaten, hunger level after (scale of 1-10)
- Do your best to ——-> SUSPEND JUDGEMENT <——–
- and ——————-> JUST OBSERVE<—————–
- Lt’s say you are at a hunger level of 8 (which means very full)…. and THEN you eat a bunch of pizza…. and now your hunger level is 10+….. that is PERFECTLY OK IN THE JOURNAL WORLD…. WHY? you ask? BECAUSE THE GOAL OF THE FOOD JOURNAL IS NOT TO EAT PERFECTLY, IT IS TO RAISE YOUR LEVEL OF CONSCIOUSNESS about what you’re eating, why and when…. And if you raised your consciousness, then you have succeeded!
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Food journal template: HERE
