Lose Weight This Weekend - Less Is More When You Eat With All 5 Senses

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If you want to lose weight this weekend, where do you start?

One answer is to eat by using all 5 senses. Mindful eating is eating with all 5 senses-even the one that historically gets us in trouble--sight.

You've heard the expression-your eyes
are bigger than your stomach.

No problem.

When you learn to feel your stomach, get connected to yourself and rely on your own body's feedback, it won't matter.

I often take a big plate of food, especially at a buffet (ugh!) or a social gathering if I am hungry. But because I have taught myself to
eat mindfully and can now feel when I am full, I rarely eat it all. I always feel fully satisfied because I know that I can eat again whenever I want. I don't forbid myself to eat, so there is no power struggle around eating.

This mental shift frees me to say yes or no to food without guilt. It's a shift that may be difficult for you to make because of fear, because you haven't learned to trust yourself yet. It will come.

And it all starts with mindful eating. By eating with all 5 senses-you *see* the colors and textures, *taste* the sweetness, *hear* the crunch, *smell* the coffee. When you enjoy your experience down to your bones, you are nurturing yourself-this is a good thing.

Food is not your enemy.

Don't close off your experience. Be curious and nonjudgmental. Have taste tests. Does it taste as good as it looks? Does it taste the way you expected it to? If not, let it go-
don't eat it. Remember-looks can be
deceiving.

If you shift your focus to deepening the experience of eating, you shift away from worrying about what the food is going to do (it's impact), away from guilt and shame and toward a richer connection to yourself.

After working with these concepts for
awhile, my husband remarked 'You know it IS easier to eat less when you eat
mindfully.' I knew then that he had made a key connection.

And by the way, my husband was *not* a
'mindful eating' kind of guy, so if it can work for him, I know it can work for you.

It's not only easier to eat less, you just naturally *do* eat less. It's automatic-you create a richer, fuller experience and you start becoming satisfied with less without
restricting yourself. And that, my friend, is my definition of heaven on earth.

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Carol Solomon, Ph.D. is a psychologist and personal coach who specializes in helping people who want to lose weight and eliminate food and weight issues.

She is the author of Lose Weight Now Stay Slim Forever, a practical how-to manual for learning to lose weight without dieting.

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