Natural Weight Loss - Shape Up/Get Smarter
By Gary
Scott
There are few things that most of us can do to improve health. In fact recent
studies suggest that overweight people are at higher risk of cancer. Scientific
studies have shown that caloric reduction increases longevity and now studies
also suggest that reduced calories increase intelligence.
Gosh, if we get some weight off we feel better, live longer and are smarter!
What more can we ask for? Yet most of us at the least battle with our weight.
So if those pounds keep creeping up, what can we do?
A message earlier this year at titled
Happy New Year looked
at how we can use a three day discipline program to beat the fat. Here is an
enhancement to this idea, a simple three-day eating plan (you've heard so many
times before) but with a VERY simple twist.
For three days eat only very small amounts of food and I mean small. Day #1
for example have just two boiled eggs and a bit of toast for breakfast. For
lunch, just four ounces of protein and a salad with a little dressing (lemon
and oil) is enough. Dinner can be a fruit lassi (one half yogurt-one half hot
water with a bit of fruit).
This is no big deal. We have all heard of this, but here is a twist to this
plan.
The twist is to make your meals into artistic events. (Merri is an expert
on serving food that is exquisitely beautiful and well as delicious. She counts
this equal to an artist's painting.)
See how small you can make breakfast, lunch and dinner but also see how beautiful
you can make it.
Create a new art form and then eat it. This can be fun and makes more sense
than it would seem because one reason small meals don't work is because we
don't get enough time with our food. Doing the artwork lengthens the meal and
helps you relax so you are in a better position to slowly eat the meal.
Here is one more tip taught to me by a shamana in the Andes. One day we were
on a picnic with loads of beautiful, healthy foods. She sat next to me and
refused all offers of the food and said "I'll just eat this one perfect
apple".
First, she just sat and looked at that apple. "We must use every sense
when we eat, so I am enjoying this beautiful red," she said. Then she
smelled the apple's fragrance and ran her hand over its smooth surface gaining
a tactile sense of her meal. Yet before taking the first bite, she stopped
and sharpened her awareness of the sounds around us, the birds and the fresh
wind singing.
Finally, she took a bite and she chewed and she chewed and she chewed. "Our
throats are designed to accept only liquid", she spoke again. "So
we must chew our food until it is liquid in our mouth before we swallow."
This is a memory I try to recall every meal.
Incredibly simple ideas are often hard to remember, but here are three simple
steps: make your meal smaller, turn your meal into a work of art and engage
all your senses on your food as you slowly and completely chew. This can dramatically
improve your health, longevity, well-being and sense of satisfaction!
Until next message may your good health always be sensed.
Gary
P.S. This plan works! I know because having weighed 220 pounds, I seriously
have to watch my weight. Over the last two years, my weight has crept up. By
focusing on this plan for just seven 3-day sessions, my weight dropped 10 pounds!
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