Is Eating Self-Control a Myth?

Your body controls itself and has complete control over how fast it burns fat.

If you want to trim some pounds or take control of eating, tune-in to your body.

If you force yourself to lose weight, you are violating natural physical laws. Your body will rebel by holding on to fat. The path for physical self-control is to connect with your needs by being patient with yourself. Use dignity and your 5 senses to be clear about what feels right. 

Using a book or diet method to force yourself into 'healthy' eating misses the point of noticing what your body needs. There is no such thing as 'one size fits all' eating. Everyone's body is unique.

'Self-control' imposed by ideas or rules feels like a threat to your body. That kind of self-control is a myth. Feeling threatened puts your body in the survival mode where there is no self-control.

• Everyone is physically programmed for survival. That's why your body can force you to eat, breathe or sleep. 
• Your body is designed hold on to fat any time it decides that being fat is the best way to keep you safe. That's what ultimately decides how much you weigh - not your conscience, a diet program or a book. 
  

For genuine eating self-control, get to know your body. Tune in with your senses and notice what you notice. You will discover you abuse your body. That is something you can control. Use intuitive eating to enhance your observations. The better you know yourself, the more automatic it becomes to eat in sync with the body you want.

Take a deep breath today and realize that your body is talking to you.

Begin this way:

• Be picky. Nourish your body every day by only eating what you really want. 
• Be personal. Listen with your senses to your heart and body. Respond to your needs.
• Take charge. Visualize and imagine your healthy fit body, exactly the way you want to look and feel before you get out of bed in the morning and before every meal. 
• Feed that body.

Learn how to tune-in to your body by using your senses. Learn to understand your eating needs. Download: Am I Really Hungry? 6th sense diet : intuitive eating. You'll be happy you did!

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Speed and Eating

Speed makes us lose our edge. Eating fast ignores your body's natural timing by bypassing enzymes in the mouth. Speed eating is what animals do who fear for their lives. Do you eat fast because you are afraid? Slow down and breathe more. You are stronger than fear.

Speed kills the pleasure of eating. Let's be honest here. Do you really get enough pleasure in your life? If not, then eat slower by chewing more and learn to savor the pleasure of flavor with your tongue. Chewing more has its benefits. When you really taste your food, you eat less! Nice.

There was a diet fad in the late 19th century that promoted chewing more to lose weight. Chewing more slows down how fast we eat, which in our busy lives means we eat less. Studies show "those who chew more consume 12% less food". Research shows that cutting 12% calorie consumption can lead to losing 25 pounds in a year. Not bad.  

Use curiosity and self-respect to protect yourself from speed eating.

Talking more at mealtime is another way to slow down how fast you eat. Be social! We're entering a season of parties where eating slowly and enjoying the experience of tastes is an easy way to protect you from putting on pounds.

Everyone is concerned about maintaining health and weight during the party season. Pause between bites and talk more to others to feed emotional and social hunger. Here are some food facts about healthy eating to start conversations. 

Did you know?

Chocolate: dark (at least 60%) is best for health; enjoy a few bites.

Nuts: just a small handful, well chewed, gives us long-term energy.

Pumpkin & Sweet Potatoes:  are mega vitamins for our immune system.

Pomegranate:  is an anti-inflammatory that benefits the nervous system & inhibits tumor cell growth.

Cinnamon: helps maintain healthy blood sugar levels and is also anti-bacterial

Cranberries: are high in vitamin C; eat in moderation.

Nutmeg:  in small amounts can enhance sleep and regulate anxiety.

Brussels Sprouts: protect against cancer.

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Plan for Eating Self-Control

The holiday season is in front of us. There will be parties, stress and eating temptation.
Let this plan become your habit and enjoy the season. 

• Be curious with your heart and your head.
• Ignore the ‘inner baby’ who just wants to eat. That inner baby is unhappy and a bully.
• Take control of holiday eating by being loyal to your heart.
• When an eating choice doesn’t feel good, it’s bad. 
• Trust your gut.

The holiday season is coming. Use intuition to take control of eating choices.

Curiosity is the natural intuitive search for comfort, understanding and stimulation.  Loyalty is the guideline for intuitive self-respect. Together, they are your plan for eating self-control.

Be curious. Demand, expect and create the quality of life you want by sensing what will work for you. Don’t deny your pleasures. Instead, take control by eating in moderation. This holiday season:

• Check in with your heart and curiosity to stay in control of smart choices.
• Spend time satisfying social hunger by talking, dancing and catching up with old friends.

Streamline your life by knowing that when you are at parties, you can use curiosity to:

• Eat less, but eat variety.
• Take 'tastes' and savor them.
• Pause to notice what you eat.

Use loyalty to

• Notice your body and heart. Trust your intuition.   
• Ignore your ‘inner baby’ emotions.
• Stay in tune with your gut. 

Keep intuitive tips, tricks and techniques on your phone 24/7 for support.   

Use curiosity and self-respect to get rid of guilt and end binging.

Notice what you notice with your senses.

Be loyal to you to avoid emotional eating

Be curious. Be loyal to you. Have fun!

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Sensual Fuel

Sensual Eating Fuels Good Health

Use every meal to maintain quality of life. Intuitive eating is a lifestyle of finding pleasure in eating without the stress of dieting. 

Attitudes towards food and eating are mirrored in every relationship you have. When you are tense with the intimate act of eating, you're tense with other intimate acts. Instead of pleasure and sharing together at mealtime, personal resentment and self doubt build. It's the opposite of using food as sensual fuel.

Intuitive values are attitudes that work like tools for losing weight. Make life easier. Be an intuitive eater. Your life will change in more ways than losing weight. The best  is, by using sensual thinking guidelines to eat smarter, good decisions spill over, enhancing every relationship - personal and business. Life gets easier.

It's important to  stay in sync with your body's needs. Your senses are natural guides towards healthy priorities and personal satisfaction. Intuitive eating is an easy balance of taste, scent, personal and physical satisfaction.

Eating updates your energy. Honor yourself by tuning into how your body feels when you eat. Staying open and curious about your options is smart, uplifting, empowering and fun. 

We already use our senses to focus as we text, write and speak, which tunes us in to what we feel with our minds. As a result, we relate to our bodies differently. We have become obsessed with our bodies, fitness, and image, because we are making this sensory connection. We feel with our mind, and connect with what we sense in a whole different way. The sensual connection is relaxing because by feeling with our minds, we have good timing.

Be curious. Notice your health and tune-in to how you feel when you eat. Be dignified. Respect and allow what you physically experience by acknowledging it. Let your next meal be sensual fuel. 

Tuning into you body is natural. Sensual thinking makes life easier.

Stay in sync with your body.  Talk less, sense more. Like the way you look.

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Smart Carbs

It has been found that people who stay slim eat the most carbs.

If you're wondering how can this be, read on. There are certain carbs called, "Resistant Starches" (list below).  Hundreds of studies show that when we have these as part of one meal a day, we eat less and burn more calories. 

• The special thing about these carbs is, they fill us up. We don't need a lot to be satisfied. Many inhibit our appetite. This means they are more filling than protein or fat.
• The reason why is: we digest them more slowly than other types of foods. This triggers the comforting sensation of fullness.
• When including carbs as part of a meal, it is important to reduce portions of protein and vegetable so that the plate is balanced. Moderation always works best.

• Balanced eating -- without cutting out an entire food group -- provides more long-term energy. Additionally, cravings are less, which keeps us upbeat.
• Starch resistant carbs flip on all of our fullness triggers. This releases hormones in our body that increase eating satisfaction. 
• Balance is natural momentum that feels like inner stability. Momentum is energy and inner stability is a stress buster. It makes sense to eat balanced.

Best of all, eating balanced meals and gently losing weight is inspiring. The result is you may discover other easy forms of keeping weight off more attractive -- like taking a walk after dinner or eating smaller portions. Balance is natures way of doing magic. It's intuitive.

Resistant Starches

Bananas

Oatmeal

White Beans

Lentils

Potatoes

Plantains

Garbanzo Beans

 Pearl Barley

Whole Wheat Pasta

Brown Rice

Being in sync with your body is sexy. Intuitive eating is healthy. Stay sexy. Be healthy. Live fully.

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Take charge by using your sixth sense.

Kick bad habits out of your life by staying on track with intuitive thinking. 

Your sixth sense is never critical or demeaning. Instead, it provides a perspective that comes from the heart. Take charge today by using your sixth sense.

Negative thinking exaggerates options and hurts you. Use your sixth sense to tune-in to what's real. Stay aware of priorities and boundaries for the best quality of life, by tuning-in to self-respect.

Shed bad habits and unwanted weight by connecting with your sixth sense, intuition. This inborn guide brings easy access for staying clear about eating choices. Start trusting yourself by using your senses to stay in touch with what's real. Intuition is there for you 24/7. 

• Respect yourself. 
• Connect needs of your body with what you feel in your heart and what you want in your head, by noticing what you sense.
• Stop fighting with your body. Learn to respond to it. This is tuning-in to your intuition.
• Choose to connect with a feeling of dignity that is in your heart.  
•  Be kind to yourself instead of judging yourself.
• Dieting puts us in the habit of ignoring what we see, hear, taste, touch and smell. 
• This is ignoring messages from our body.
• The first step to connect with your body is to respect it.

• Stop yo-yo dieting. 
• Bouncing back and forth between dieting plans can cause depression -- a hopeless attitude about yourself or feelings of isolation.   
• Dieting creates the bad habit of being tense at mealtime. Relax and enjoy the taste  of your food.

Intuitive thinking is your connection to natural inner strength. Sometimes we call it common sense.
It feels like a calm awareness. 

• Imagine being relaxed when you sit down to eat. That's intuitive eating.

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Get Physical.

Get physical at mealtime. 

Intuitive eating is physical.

Being physical when we eat means connecting with what we sense and what we feel.  

The feeling we all look for is happiness. Happiness isn't complicated. Sharing a smile, a song or eye contact keeps energy of happiness bouncing around us. The intuitive way to feel this is by being grateful. Being grateful is how to feed your heart. Gratitude, importantly, reduces the risk of emotional eating.

• Be grateful before you put any food into your mouth.  Feed your heart first by remembering that you are not homeless, at war, or ill. 
• Feed your heart by being thankful for the chance to be thankful.

Then, turn your brain off.  Eating is not intellectual.

Whenever possible, take pleasure in the food you eat. Intuitive eating is a spontaneous physical response to the moment. How do we trust being spontaneous when so much hinges on our responses? 

• Eat with an attitude of dignity and comfort. Make this attitude your priority at mealtime.

Respond to eating with your 5 physical senses. As a result, you will enhance automatic intuitive nudges.  When food is in front of you, before you eat, be grateful for food on your plate, and then:

• Tune in with your senses. Think with your senses when you eat. Respond to what you notice and how you feel.

• See what you are eating . 
•  Notice portion size. Do not eat any serving bigger than your fist. 

• Connect with your body. 
• When yo enjoy food, digestive enzymes are more efficient and more calories are burned. 
• Eat only up to your physical comfort level. Stop when you feel good, which is before you feel full.

• Listen to your thighs, your gut and your heart and you will eat wisely. Ignore your head. 
• Eating is physical. It's like putting gas in the car. 
• It doesn't matter what's playing on the radio inside the car. The goal is to fill the tank with gas for power.
• Your head does not know what you need to eat; only your body does.
• Don't overload your body or put in the wrong fuel. 

• Chew more, taste more, talk more and you will eat less. 

Being physical by being grateful, using your senses more and connecting with your body, will reveal insights about your heart. Being intuitive connects with feelings of self-respect and pleasure. Give yourself every opportunity to be the best you.

Learn more about how to connect with your intution by reading Fine Tuning, Connect With Your Inner Power. Learn more specifically about using natural intuitive insights to stay in sync with your body by reading, Am I Really Hungry, 6th sense diet:Intuitive eating.

It is only possible to live happily ever after on a day to day basis. – Margaret Bonnan  

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