What is Mindful Eating?
Mindfulness is about focusing your attention and awareness on the present moment. Being mindful whilst eating can help to disconnect from unsatisfying and harmful habits and behaviours. To put simply, mindful eating is the opposite of mindless eating and involves eating with awareness. It enables you to remove judgement and focus your attention and awareness on not only the food itself, but the way you respond to food, both physically and emotionally.
To be mindful we must first be present. This involves removing distractions, including the television, your phone and computer or tablet so that you can truly be in the moment, and focus on what foods you are consuming.
Too often we eat quickly, barely noticing the food which means we often don’t register that we’ve eaten or how much we’ve eaten! Ideally you should always eat mindfully but it’s likely this isn't possible all of the time. At least try to eat slower and minimise distractions, which means your phone, your computer or the TV. Often people find it useful to try practising a mindful mouthful at least once/day.
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