ConsciouS Eating

If you make weight loss your only focus and goal, Conscious Eating™ will feel like another diet and you will become stuck in the binge/deprivation cycle making permanent weight loss impossible.

At Conscious Eating™ the focus is on how you feel and how your body feels which ironically, results in lasting weight loss.

Weight loss is not the only measure of success in this program. As you get more in touch with your body and more accurate about responding to its needs you will find that food is not so important and you will slowly return to your natural size when you are ready. It is important to start measuring your success based on how you feel about yourself and your life.

We believe that Unconscious Eating (eating for every other reason besides physical hunger) leads to weight gain.

Conscious Eating™ (eating for physical hunger only) leads to weight loss and weight loss maintenance.

4 parts to Conscious Eating™:

Intention to eat consciously, Choosing to eat when physically hungry
Being present with the food - taste the food, enjoy the experience
Stop eating when body feels satisfied
Check in with your body after eating - how does it feel now, in 20 minutes, after a couple of hours?

The amount of time it will take to fully eat consciously will depend on

How long you have been dieting
How strongly entrenched your diet thinking and beliefs are
How long you have been using food to cope with feelings and stress
How willing you are to trust yourself and your body
How much you follow through with your intentions.

Conscious Eating™ is a process not a goal. A process has no end, it is made up of many little steps and many little changes.

Conscious Eating™ requires that you be in the present. The focus is not on the past or the future, only what is happening right now, in this moment. Being in the present is the key to help you notice when you are feeling hungry and feeling satisfied.

As you go through this process your weight may fluctuate especially as you are normalizing food and learning to eat consciously.

As you learn to differentiate between physical hungers and other hungers and learn how to respond accurately to all your hungers, the weight loss will follow.

Conscious Eating™ supports slow weight loss with the knowledge that the slower you take it off the more likely it will be that your weight loss is permanent. The quick weight loss that results from dieting is really water loss. It represents your body's natural response to starvation or not having enough energy. When glucose (energy) is not available, your body will begin converting the protein in muscles into valuable energy for your body. This is called "muscle wasting". Muscle is made up mostly of water (70%). When muscle cells are destroyed, water is released and eventually excreted - there is the quick weight loss.

Conscious Eating™ means letting go of all diet behaviors, thoughts, and beliefs which are deeply ingrained in your own beliefs and attitudes about food and weight loss. Letting go will happen over time as you uncover more and more diet thoughts and beliefs. Many of them will be released in the first workshop and in Phase I of the long term program. But this awareness will always be a part of your Conscious Eating™ process.

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