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After a few bites, the delight is overwhelming and the taste needs to be broken with something blander. You feel the velvety soft texture of this paste-like substance, soothing the spices from the fish. What a joyful and satisfying feeling! Then the bite of the bittersweet crunch of velvety dark chocolate, covering the completely ripe, sweet-and-sour tangy strawberry puts you right over!
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You even forget that "hot" guy sitting at the bar. You just want the magic to last forever. You just want to keep chewing to discover more. The only thing you are thinking about is your action of chewing and tasting the food. You totally focus on doing one thing at a time. Chewing brings out the flavor of food. Chewing and holding the food in your mouth longer allows you to experience the magic behind the flavors.
By chewing, you experience all six tastes—bitter, sweet, salty, sour, spicy pungent , and paste, like astringent potato —in your meal in perfect harmony. The tastes balance each other out to leave you not wanting anything else. You feel satisfied with what you have eaten. Balancing the tastes brings satisfaction. These are just a couple of examples of opposing tastes. When we eat too much of one taste, we start craving the opposite taste to restore harmony.
The next time you feel something is missing and you keep looking for something else to eat even though you are full, look at what you ate. See if your meal contained all six tastes or if you indulged in something. A few bites of that missing taste will bring you back to harmony and keep you from eating all night long. We have been discussing eating as part of our lifestyle. Our eating habits affect how well we feel by affecting how well in synchrony our biochemical processes work.
Keeping your body in harmony starts with helping your body help you by aiding digestion. Practicing Intelligent Eating Habits—see first article—can aid our digestion. So far, you have been practicing chewing for better digestion and balancing the six tastes for satiety. Do you notice a difference in how you feel after your meals? The motivation is fading. What do we do from here? Some of you may start to shift back to old habits. This is a normal process when changing a routine. You have been doing great and you did not mess up anything.
The most important thing is that you caught yourself sailing too far from what you should be doing.
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You just took the next step! Let us look at what the next steps are, to avoid repeating this New Year's resolution next year and help you stick with it. The secret lies in the three secret words. The first is Consistency, the second is Consistency, and the third is Consistency! Take your mind off eating by further shifting the "diet" paradigm.
You have a whole list of new Intelligent Eating Habits that you can practice to change your lifestyle. They are a lot more exciting than the old habits that did not seem to work. The little voice in your head may still be there: Remember how the pure thought of that sentence put a knot in your stomach and made you nervous. You just experienced the stress response when your body went into an alarm phase and digestion stopped.
Changing a habit takes time. It takes about nine months of practice to make that changed habit permanent. It takes about two years of practice for that new habit to become automatic. This way, those extra "bad boy" pounds will stay away and you don't have to make the same New Year's resolution next year.
I am sorry to break the bad news to you… The good news is that if you understand the process of changing a habit, you have a higher chance to succeed. You had full control during the first few weeks over doing the whole "diet" right, then life and old habits caught up with you. This is the time that you catch yourself doing other things in your head than eating, and happens about two months down the road from the time you made your New Year's resolution.
Besides chewing, the next step is taking time out from our schedules to sit down for our meals. At least I can catch the news on the TV or read.
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Didn't we just talk about doing one thing at a time? Catching and re-steering yourself into the right direction is the way that theory is transformed into practice. Count the tastes in your next meal. Did you taste all six? If not, how did you feel after the meal? A habit starts with a single thought then it transforms into an action. Repeating that action many times will form a habit. Long term habits become the part of our character and long term effects of our character determine our destiny.
Before we know an abnormal action became our comfort zone. A single thought can determine the destiny of our health. We all catch the little voice in the back of our mind, "let me just do this one thing one more time, just one last time. It will not hurt me! The way we get used to eating our first meal leaves a pattern in us and may become a habit.
If we start out early in life leaving the house without breakfast, eating in the car, skipping meals, and gobbling our food, these actions become automatic and THE way we perform that action. Cutting corners eventually catches up with us and before we know it, our health has been steered into an undesired direction. Concluding the list of Intelligent Eating Habits is: Slow down by having the right thought in your head.
Let's look at the benefits to slowing down. Having an upsetting thought and not concentrating on our actions is stressful to our body. Repeating stressful thoughts will interrupt our inside harmony—"we don't feel good"—and alter our vital functions, creating digestive problems and constipation, etc. If we don't cope very well with stress, altered vital functions of a long-term nature may lead to a serious compromise in our health, such as cancer.
Believing how stress destroys our body can be difficult. Our little voice inside may say, "we all have stress in our life. Stress surrounds us all day long. Besides the point of learning to cope with stress, learning NOT to internalize stress is life saving. When faced with a stressful situation, ask yourself the question, "Can I really do something about it? Redirecting our attention to another problem we can do something about is constructive or useful stress—there is always a drawer to clean.
What is going on in the body during stress? The adrenal gland is the organ system that responds to all types of stress. The body reacts exactly the same way regardless of the source of the stimuli—physical, emotional, environmental, or perceived stress. Emotional stress, however, is the number one causing factor in altering biochemical responses that leads to disease.
Stress response also activates the sympathetic nervous system—the "flight and fight" response—by sending signals to the brain that will alarm the hormonal system to provide fuel for the body. Being under stress means that instant energy is needed for survival. This energy is most efficiently and most readily provided by sugar glucose.
During stress, however, the body does not rely on incoming food for energy. Chronic stress is like starvation for the body. After using up the stored carbohydrate sources glycogen , the body first uses stored fat, then proteins from muscle and enzymes for energy. The adrenal glands, in response to signals from the brain, elevate cortisol production to perform catabolic breakdown functions, and to provide energy for vital organs such as the brain and heart.
During stress, the body slows down all non-survival functions, such as reproduction and digestion.
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The first thing you can do to quickly improve your health is to actually pay attention to your eating habits. Lower your stress level while you eat to avoid fatiguing your adrenals. Use mealtimes to give your body a break Have you ever noticed that a pleasant environment during meals helps you slow down? Imagine how you feel sitting at your favorite table at your favorite restaurant and having your favorite meal, as described earlier.
You feel great because of the colors and pictures on the wall, and the perfectly placed plants and flower arrangements surrounding you. Your favorite tune from the piano completely relaxes you—of course, you turned off your cell phone—and you allow yourself to breathe. It feels just right to be there. And, you know what? You just stopped eating—because you felt full! Congratulations, you just experienced natural portion control… You heard your body saying, "stop eating, I am full.
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The stomach was designed to hold about two handfuls of food at a time for efficient digestion and absorption. Now you can sit back and enjoy being full and satisfied. Put it to the test: Anxious about being anxious? Notice the slender young women in bathing suits on the cover of the magazines? They are yet another reminder that keeps me anxious, beyond all other things.
I think about being single and being out there. You probably have been there, torn over letting your "trendy" skeletal body go and exchanging your daily exhausting exercise routine and 1, calorie diet You can't sleep, your period is all messed up, blemishes are blooming on your face, and you don't understand why. The physical stress of exercise, coupled with an energy-restricted diet, then topped with the "emotional uptightness" of "I HAVE to stay skinny because I am not good enough otherwise," results in poor health and unhealthy looking skin.
Your insides seem to be constantly raving, you can't calm down at night, and you can't wait to run five miles at sunrise and squeeze in the 8: The more you do, the more you need to keep doing to feel at ease. You are experiencing the first alert mode of your adrenal gland, which is elevated cortisol production. Elevated cortisol levels result in an imbalance of other vital hormones.
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The imbalance of reproductive hormones in women leads to PMS Premenstrual Syndrome , androgen disorders high testosterone levels causing adult acne, facial hair growth, hair loss, and impossible weight loss—what we are so afraid of , and prostrate problems in men. Increased cortisol at night will interfere with rest and recovery. A high cortisol level at night suppresses melatonin production levels, causing insomnia and interrupted sleep. Low nighttime melatonin levels have been observed in patients with cancer.
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