Tip # 7 | Eating with Intention

Did you know that eating with mindfulness and intention is THE best way to drop the pounds and keep them off for good?

Your body is your temple, your church, your mosque, your synagogue. In honor of Passover and Seder, where each food item symbolizes history, sacrifice, struggle, and resilience, so we should plan for and honor the food we eat every day as well.

Plan each meal. Take great pride in what you prepare and put on your plate. Make it colorful and bright, in both color and flavor. Enrich it with a drizzle of wonderful extra virgin olive oil or a squeeze of lemon juice or lime zest.

Buy and prep what’s in season and thank the farmers and harvesters for making it all possible.

Chew, chew, and chew some more! Put your fork or spoon down between each bite…then keep on chewing!

The longer your meal takes and the more intentional you are about how and what you are eating, the more your body will thank you in return. Slow, conscious eating is a sure fire way to let your hunger gremlin (ghrelin) get satisfied so leptin (your I’m-full-thanks hormone) shows up and tells you to stop.

No clean plate clubs necessary here. Stop when you are satisfied. Got leftovers? Cool! Pack’em up for lunch tomorrow or turn them into a sheet pan frittata or egg scramble for breaking fast.

I’m more guilt than most of eating dinner while binge watching worthless crap on TV. But, the best way to lose weight is to do all of the above while sitting at a proper dining table NOT watching Arya Stark on GoT kick some major ass.

The more special you make every meal and every morsel you put in your holy temple, the more your body will thank you with weight loss. This too will be my own personal challenge. Let’s keep each other motivated and accountable.