Signs You Failed Mindful Eating And How To Get Back on Track

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Mindful eating is a great life choice that you can make and it’s incredibly easy to just pick up and get into without any preparation. Eating mindfully is as simple as, well, eating while savoring and putting thought into your food choices. The downside is that mindful eating is just as easy to drop or slip up with as it is to pick up. Because it’s not a diet there’s no clear or strict lines to cross, making it difficult to tell when you’ve lost track of your mindful eating. Don’t worry though, let’s go over some signs that you’ve stopped eating mindfully.

At this point we know that there’s no wrong or right choices when eating mindfully, one of the biggest sticking points of a mindful lifestyle. The key is actively choosing to consume healthy, nourishing foods rather than the ones you’re eating just to snack on. If you’re worried you’ve stopped eating mindfully then take a look at what you’ve eaten lately. Look at the last week, the last day, even the last few hours and see what you’ve eaten. If you can file more than half of those foods under “junk food” then you may want to re-examine your mindful eating choices.

Another important part of mindful eating is observing and following your hunger cues. What this comes down to is eating when you’re naturally hungry and stopping when you’re satisfied. You should never worry about making sure there’s no food left on your plate or taking seconds or extra helpings just to be nice. You should also work to avoid stress or “emotional” eating in response to something you’re feeling besides natural hunger. If you’re reaching for something to eat, assess at that very moment if you’re grabbing it because you’re hungry and you want to have something to sate that hunger or if you’re just doing it because you feel like you need to.

Last but not least you need to examine how you’re eating your food. With how busy it can be to get all the work you need done and still make time for a good meal between work, personal obligations, and anything else that might come your way it can be difficult to always eat mindfully. However, whenever you have time available you should work to slowly eat and savor the food you’re eating. Food isn’t just about putting something in your body and getting on with your day, it’s nourishing your health and enjoying the flavors of your food. Mindful eating helps you to appreciate your food, enjoy its flavors, and gives you time to observe what, how often, and how much you eat. Downing your entire lunch or some fast food burgers without a second thought should be a little red flag you may have stopped eating mindfully.

Mindful eating is an active life choice that you have to work at, it doesn’t just come to you because you want it to. Without clear guidelines it can be easy to lose your way, especially with how busy today’s world is and how many quick and easy food options there are out there. If you’re thinking about your food and how you eat it, then you’re eating mindfully and you’ve got nothing to worry about.

Losing weight is difficult, there’s no getting around that. It’s easy to gain weight and even easier to keep it, the hard part is breaking those bad habits and reversing all of the work your body has put into gathering all of its fat. Losing weight in fact sends signals to your body that something is wrong which can cause undue stress and, often, food cravings which can be difficult to ignore in favor of healthier choices. Mindful eating is a strong way to consider your body’s needs and help to repair a damaged relationship with food, but the lack of strict guidelines can make it easy to lose track of the line between eating mindfully and binge eating.

The first thing that you need to do is determine whether you’ve stopped eating mindfully or you’re just indulging a little, which is fine. Key signs that you’ve stopped eating mindfully is identifying whether or not you’re making g active choices to eat healthy foods over “mindless” snacks, how well you’re following your hunger cues, finally and your eating habits in regards to how much and how often you eat. Identifying you’ve fallen off track is the first step towards recovering your mindful eating mindset.

The best part of mindful eating is that it isn’t difficult to pick back if you feel like you’ve lost your way. Mindful eating at its core is making the active choice to pursue healthy eating habits and eat nutritious and delicious foods. You don’t have any special restrictions or activities you need to do for it and there’s no “starting over” if you slip up a little bit along the way. Mindful eating is great because it’s so simple to make a part of your life along with any other weight loss plans you make or even on its own.

If you want to go back to mindful eating then it’s simple, start by looking at the reason that you may have stopped eating mindfully to begin with and do what you can to correct that. Next you’ll need to evaluate your food choices and decide whether it’s going to nourish your body and make you feel good about eating it. After that you should work to pay close attention to your hunger cues and only eat until your satisfied, avoiding the pitfalls of emotional and thirst hunger or eating just to be eating. Finally you just have to make the active and consistent choice to go for healthy, delicious foods you can enjoy over snacking habits that hurt your body and leave you unsatisfied. When you’ve done all these things you can successfully say you’ve returned to eating mindfully and you know what to do if it happens again!