Mindful Eating and Hypnotherapy week 3

Week 3

After being on the ‘F’ it plan for so many years, I will let you into a little secret. There has been a breakthrough, not an Earth shattering movement, but for the first time in many years (while not being on a diet) I have genuinely refused pudding. I didn’t do this to be ‘good’, reward myself, guilt or for punishment, it was because I had recognised ‘full’. What a lot of old rubbish I hear you splutter about now. What I really meant to say was I did not eat my way past full and into uncomfortable, I just…stopped and it felt kind of nice.

I was really excited to tell the group and was even more excited with this week’s topic, the power of the pause. How many of us really stop to think about what we are eating? Many people now are eating on the go, let alone allowing time in between forkfuls. So we pause. I am going to listen to those pauses from now on in the hope they have a little code waiting for me to crack.

Favourite foods were up next and why we love them so much. On some mindful eating courses they encourage people to eat as much of this food as possible to try to ascertain why we continue to over eat. I’m not sure they have enough crisps in East Devon for this challenge but it’s a challenge my husband thought would be fun. If I am brave enough, and I usually am, I will let you in on what a marathon crisp binge feels like. I will point out this was not part of this course and I have realised I didn’t buy any crisps on this week’s shop! So something is definitely working.

This week’s homework was to pause wherever possible and practice the art of enjoying our food. It was no longer a vessel fed by our hunger but something we just did and took pleasure in. This was most important because I see food as one of my best friends, sad I know, but I get so much pleasure from it that I realise now why diets can’t work for me. So like any invested relationship I am going to help ‘my friend’ be the best they can be and that means looking at all my food choices.

If you would like to know more I will be posting this blog for the next six weeks. Please like and share. For interest in doing a course please phone Katherine Locke on 07791182023 or email katherine@followyourfreedom.co.uk and for similar courses please phone the Axminster Health & Wellbeing Centre on 01297 32331