In this blog I have often talked to you about intuitive eating , but are you familiar with mindful eating?

This is a similar but unregulated approach. That is to say that while in intuitive eating there are rules, at least in the classic approach of Dr. Tribole, in mindful eating the rules are other, in a certain sense simpler.

You can eat what you want, when you want, BUT … You have to pay attention to food.
In the sense of: paying attention to the moment we eat, obviously trying to prefer a healthy diet, but managing to indulge in everything, albeit in small quantities.

To do this, you need to:

1. focus on preparing and tasting food, avoiding distractions while eating, trying to savor bite by bite, paying attention to the quality of the food we bring to the table and striving to have a healthy and balanced diet.
2. eat the things we love the most but are high in calories by giving ourselves two or three bites, but savoring them slowly.

Do you find it difficult?
Not only is it not, even if paying attention to the food we have on your plate, chewing it slowly, savoring it and not being distracted by anything (at least conversing) is not something you learn immediately.

It takes a moment to get used to it: but above all, according to a recent study, mindful eating would lead to weight loss .

Dr Dunn , head of the Mindful Eating study, explained that the 38 obese patients enrolled in the  Eat Smart, Move More, Weigh Less program would lose 2 pounds in 3.5 months without diets.
They just followed these instructions to eat better, with the prescription to move more.

If you consider that patients have lost 2 kilos without going on a weight loss diet and without depriving themselves of anything, this is a great result, which is equivalent to losing almost 8 kilos a year by eating with greater awareness.