How to use mindfulness to stop overeating
One of the most important things you can do in order to stop overeating, lose weight, and get healthy is to cultivate a mindful awareness of your body during mealtimes. This way you will get to know how your body reacts to different types of food, and also start to identify true physical hunger, as opposed to cravings or emotional hunger. How many times do you really feel hungry when you eat? How many times do you stop eating as soon as you feel satiated? If you go out to a restaurant, are you really still hungry for desert afterContinue Reading
Healthy eating vs diet
There was a time when I thought I wanted to be a dietician. I started a long and arduous process to go back to college and get myself the necessary education; learning about chemistry and biology – which was quite a task, from someone who’d always considered herself a total dunce when it came to Science. Healthy eating – or calorie control? During this process I spent some time shadowing a dietician in a hospital setting. I became quite baffled by the advice she was giving her patients about weight loss. It was all about calorific value; choosing diet drinks,Continue Reading
New Year’s Resolutions
As today is January 1st, I thought it would be the ideal date to write my first blog for this site. And what better subject than ‘New Year’s Resolutions’ – those grand promises we make to ourselves at the start of every year, only to break them within a few days (or sometimes hours). Time to make a new start? Reinvent a brand new you It’s easy to understand how important it is for us to make New Year’s Resolutions – the old year is done and dusted, and the time feels perfect to re-invent a brand new you andContinue Reading