Eating Zen. So you lose weight without a diet

Losing weight without a diet, and even without worries, perhaps embracing a lifestyle that is less breathless and more on a human scale? According to Thich Nhat Hanh , a Buddhist monk, Zen master and pacifist, famous for being the author of many books on Zen and awareness, it is possible to eat, and not just live, in a more conscious way, to have a body in harmony. and in perfect shape. In short, losing weight without a diet, little by little and without worries would be possible. The monk returns to the bookstore with Eating Zen (Mondadori)where it deals with the issue of a conscious diet, without however imposing a real diet: for this reason, many people think of conscious nutrition as a joke, when instead listening to our body can really be the key to improving our relationship with food, often anxious and emotional.

Here are some tips taken from the book, so we will find out if it is a suitable reading for us and if above all it can be useful in case we are looking for a definitive solution to fluctuating weight, mood hunger and extra pounds.

EATING ZEN TO LOSE WEIGHT WITHOUT DIET
1) According to Thich Nhat Hanh, we can begin to improve our eating habits one step at a time, accompanying this path to better physical activity that is daily. So let’s imagine having to give ourselves two / three months to see real results and to take these habits little by little, for example one a week.
2) We start walking to stay active: thanks to a pedometer, we start from a minimum of half an hour a day of walking (2500 steps) to reach 75 minutes within a couple of months (or 9000 steps). We can choose any other daily activity that takes us from half an hour to an hour / an hour and a half of daily movement. 3) We learn to make three nutritious meals a day at fixed times

4) We limit the consumption of sweet and sparkling drinks to twice a week, replacing them with natural alternatives.
5) Let’s move from consuming refined carbohydrates to their whole-grain alternatives.
6) Three to four times a week we make meals based on legumes or other vegetable proteins instead of animal ones to balance our diet.
7) We chew food very slowly, making sure to make each bite liquid before swallowing it.
8) Let’s start with vegetables: a vegetable dish for lunch and dinner before the main course.

And I close this article with a beautiful phrase from Thich Nhat Hanh on self-acceptance (my translation):
“To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don’t need to be accepted by others, you need to accept yourself “.