Mindful Eating
Discover how mindfulness can help with weight loss and produce spiritual benefits beyond physical well-being.
Here's a sampling of quotes on mindful eating.
"Solving the problem of obesity is about becoming conscious of your eating and activity patterns, of what healthy eating is, human relationships, and most importantly--about God being present and available always."
"While practicing a little mindful eating today I discovered a glorious source of gratitude--colors! While I was concentrating on a potato mindfully, the thought suddenly arose--how would you describe the taste of a potato...and from there my monkey mind jumped to...how would one describe a color, like blue. ('Monkey mind' is a mindfulness term which describes how the mind jumps from thought to thought the way a money jumps wildly from branch to branch in a tree.)
Suddenly I became--for the first time--really aware of all the colors in the food court of the mall where I was eating and realized for the very first time in my life I was actually AWARE of and grateful for all the colors in our life...."
"How can I ask God to bless food that is so obviously unhealthy?! 'Lord, bless these deep fried potato chips that are saturated with partially hydrogenated vegetable oil and layered with salt!' Boy, doesn't sound too good does it?!"
SO that's another thing I'm allowing God to help me work on. Fully experiencing each bite. Not thinking of who or what is bothering me, but rather how at that particular moment in time that one bite tastes, feels, and what it can do to help me become healthier physically."
"Solving the problem of obesity is about becoming conscious of your eating and activity patterns, of what healthy eating is, human relationships, and most importantly--about God being present and available always."
--NorrisChumley
"I think overall you have to be ready in your heart and in your mind or it will never work. You can't diet forever!!! so it has to be a eating habit you can live with. You start eating good things consciously and eventually it becomes unconscious!"
--free2bme
Discovering Color"While practicing a little mindful eating today I discovered a glorious source of gratitude--colors! While I was concentrating on a potato mindfully, the thought suddenly arose--how would you describe the taste of a potato...and from there my monkey mind jumped to...how would one describe a color, like blue. ('Monkey mind' is a mindfulness term which describes how the mind jumps from thought to thought the way a money jumps wildly from branch to branch in a tree.)
Suddenly I became--for the first time--really aware of all the colors in the food court of the mall where I was eating and realized for the very first time in my life I was actually AWARE of and grateful for all the colors in our life...."
--digital843
Talking With God"How can I ask God to bless food that is so obviously unhealthy?! 'Lord, bless these deep fried potato chips that are saturated with partially hydrogenated vegetable oil and layered with salt!' Boy, doesn't sound too good does it?!"
--foursweetbabes
"What works for me some of the time is offering the feeling to God, telling God I want to binge, writing down both the feeling and the physical sensation in my body, and telling myself I will find something else to do, just for a few minutes."
--lgreen515
"I've been asking God to help me for years to lose this unhealthy fat, but I've never let Him take the fork from my hand and feed me. It's time for that now. To say Lord, Feed Me. Spiritually... SO that's another thing I'm allowing God to help me work on. Fully experiencing each bite. Not thinking of who or what is bothering me, but rather how at that particular moment in time that one bite tastes, feels, and what it can do to help me become healthier physically."
--foursweetbabes
