I MAY BE SLOW AT MANY THINGS, but eating isn't one of them. Seems to be a super power of mine that I shouldn't use every meal. It's very easy for me to gobble up my food as I shovel it quickly into my mouth as if in a race. Easy peasy. This shouldn't be what is easy to do and think it's healthy. It isn't.
I have intentionally sat a phone that displays digital time beside me as I eat a meal. I am retraining myself to sloth along while eating. I'm not in a race with anyone to see who finishes the meal the first. This weight loss sport isn't a sprint...it's a marathon. Go the distance.
The winning will be in losing weight in a healthy way. The winning will be that I have deliberately slowed down while eating and now taste the flavors more fully. The taste buds are in the mouth, not in the stomach.
I started doing this when eating organic soup as the only item on the meal ticket. Timing myself, I allowed a spoonful of organic soup every minute. I didn't allow myself to take another slurp until the phone's digital clock had changed to the next minute. I figured if I take a full 20 minutes to eat 2 cups of soup, then I should get about 20 spoonfuls. When it's been 20 minutes and there's still soup in the bowl, I WIN. I eat the rest being a WINNER in this 20 minute challenge.
Today as I ate cooked Rainbow Carrots and sliced cucumbers, I sat the phone beside me and began to eat. In between the minutes, I sliced the carrots into thinner slices and nibbled on the cucumbers. Then sipped some Hot Matcha GREEN Tea.
This deliberate discipline in eating slower by taking smaller bites is working. I can be proud that I won this challenge I gave myself to eat slower and deliberately taste each bite all around in my mouth. Wowzer...it can be done.
I was suppose to have three boiled eggs and an apple for Lunch, but after struggling the last two days of not getting the cucumbers and carrots eaten for the day, I switched the menu up some. No eggs for Lunch. Instead it's cooked carrots and cucumbers where an apple will follow for a snack in the afternoon. Supper will once again be a bowl of oatmeal sprinkled with Ceylon Cinnamon, walnuts and fruit. With the cold weather, the hot oatmeal not only satisfies my hunger, but it also becomes comfort food warming my stomach on a cold day.
Learning this last year that changes can take place with the results being better, I forge ahead. I stepped on the scales and to my amazement 5 more pounds have come off of my fluffy body. Praise the LORD and congrats to the 'ole woman in the dark blue housecoat.
Here's to change and learning more about living a healthier LIFE.
~d
Jeremiah 29:11 KJV
For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the Lord, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.
1 Corinthians 10:31 - Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God.
Genesis 1:29 - And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat.
John 6:35 - And Jesus said unto them, I am the bread of life: he that cometh to me shall never hunger; and he that believeth on me shall never thirst.
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