Weight loss-Ideas and Tips from a Fresh Approach
By Raquel Reyna from Divine Nutrition
The psychology of eating and weight loss ideas by Divine Nutrition is designed for anyone who eats.
We all have a relationship with food. This relationship changes overtime but is with us throughout our lives. Culturally it is time for us to re-evaluate this relationship. With things like diabetes, obesity, heart disease, binge eating, fast food, and over eating increasing in epidemic proportion asking the question…do we as Americans have a healthy relationship with food…is a valid and transformational investigation.
There is not one program in this country that deals with the psychology of eating unless you are anorexic or bulimic or suffer from severe eating disorders. But the real truth is that we all eat, and most of us think that we would rather be thinner, healthier, or in better shape to some degree. And 150 million people a day across America go on a diet. Only 3% will keep the weight off and this has not changed in 20 years! So we all can grow from becoming sane around our relationship with food!
The study of the average American and their psyche around food…is an enlightening one. So let’s begin with a fresh approach to weight loss.
My focus at Divine Nutrition is developing a healthy psyche around our diet, our self-image, and our relationship with our body.
To begin this investigation we must ask ourselves questions like: do I feel good after I eat, am I happy with my body, do I have cravings that control my day, do I binge at night, do I have indigestion?
These are just a few of the inner investigations needed to discover if we are in a healthy rapport with our bellies.
Feeling bloated after a meal, or constantly wanting to lose that extra 15lbs, or yo yo dieting are not necessarily issues with food or diet or nutrition at all. I am suggesting that all of these symptoms are a calling out from your body to inform you that a deeper relationship with self is needed: that some type of transformation about how you are ingesting life needs to be evaluated.
How to transform your relationship with food, lose weight, and create healthy habits with food begins by stepping out onto the journey of life.
There is not simple answer and as much as I would like to sell one…there is no magic pill or ten step cure. There is a lot of pain and suffering in this relationship with nourishing ourselves and healing our bodies for lasting change is the only answer. There is no need to get rid of or cut off or starve yourself as you go through this process. Perhaps your body is suggesting you move into deeper relationship with it, dive into a process of transformation, and become the vehicle of vital health that is your natural state. So let’s begin with 6 simple steps to Real Weight loss:
1. Learn to love your body. No matter what. If you eat something that made you feel bloated or sick do not go into self-sabotage…forgive yourself right away. We are all human and there is no need to attack or wrong yourself for what you enjoyed or what you ate too much of.
2. Ask yourself deeper questions about what else in your life feels stuck? Are you unhappy at work, in a relationship, with a friend, where do you feel transformation is needed?
3. Are you depriving yourself of basic nourishment due to false ideas about food? Such as to loose weight I must eat close to nothing-Or to loose fat I must eliminate fat in my diet? Both of these things are completely false. Filling yourself up with high dense nutrient rich foods is important to decrease cravings and binging behavior. Fat free foods are false advertising and toxic rich processed foods. Feel free to eat healthy fats like coconut oil, avocados, nuts, omega 3’s.
4. Slow down. Are you eating on the run, stressed out or not carving out time to eat? Your body can not properly digest a meal if you are eating under duress.
5. Listen to your body. Everyday stop do nothing and listen. Is your body telling you information about what it really wants can you nourish it in other ways like a bath, a walk, a meditation before food? Take 10 minutes a day to listen to the needs of your body. Perhaps you need more exercise, less exercise, nature, organic foods, deep stretches, less sugar, more mineralization. Listen to your body everyday.
6. Buy high quality foods. This is the greatest insurance investment there is. Spend the extra money on high-vibe nutrient dense foods. Research the highest quality in food, supplementation, superfoods, and mineral dense ways to eat. Don’t skimp on quality. You will pay triple at the doctor for poor health, medications, mood-assistant drugs, or health bills. Invest in the highest quality food first and save later.
Sometimes our life’s and our bodies need deeper nourishment and food is not doing its job because we are not doing our jobs-in other words we are not taking the time to deepen, change, or transform areas in our life that need attention.
I am saying that most people’s issues around food are issues around life. How you eat is symbolic to how you are nourishing yourself or not nourishing yourself.
Take the time today to give yourself permission to be healthy!
Weight loss from a fresh approach would mean to begin to evaluate from a more genuine prospective your relationship with yourself, your life, your nourishment, your self-care, your attention to the moment.
Reach for your divine health. Your most delicious, healthy, vital, and wondrous bodacious bod awaits you as your realize NOW that divine health is your natural state.
