Mindful Eating

Here's a sampling of quotes on mindful eating from many of our health-conscious readers.

Becoming Conscious

"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."

"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!"

"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...."

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