If you want to lose weight, the environment you eat in is super important.
Imagine a woman called Angela. Angela gets up in the morning and before she even has breakfast she starts thinking about what she would have for dinner. She has a shower and she’s thinking about what she will have for dinner. She travels to work and on the way she’s thinking about what she would have for dinner. She gets to work and sits at her desk. She’s focused on her work, of course, but she is also thinking about what she can have for dinner.
Time passes and it is lunchtime. She thinks about her lunch, of course, but all the time she’s even thinking about what she will have for dinner. Then it is the afternoon. She does some more work, but she is also thinking about what she would have for dinner. Then she travels home. On the way home she is thinking about what she will have for dinner. She starts to get excited as she ponders the numerous delectable alternatives that she has. Perhaps she stops at the shop on the way to buy all or part of what she is going to eat. Perhaps she has everything she already needs. Then she prepares her dinner. While she is cooking, she smells the food – it smells delicious. Then, at long last, after a long day of waiting, the food is ready.
So Angela takes her food, puts in on her plate and sits down to eat. She switches the TV on, has a magazine open in front of her, and half-watching, half-reading, shovels the food into her mouth. What’s wrong with this picture? It is true that food is our fuel, but it is more than that. Every few years all of the cells in our body regenerate themselves. In fact, this happens so quickly that in six months time 98% of the cells that make up your body would be new cells which are not part of your body now.
Think about what that means.
That means that the food and drink you put in to your body in just the next 6 months would form 98% of your body! After all, we truly are what we eat. The food we eat is not just the fuel for our bodies, it offers the building blocks for our body as well.
Don’t you think that’s an important enough process to deserve your undivided attention?
What you put in to your body matters. What food you eat and what drinks you drink – these things are extremely important, they deserve your attention. By eating in an environment filled with distractions it’s impossible to give them that attention. So while you are eating, EAT IN AN ENVIRONMENT WITHOUT DISTRACTIONS.
Do I mean that you shouldn’t eat in front of the TV? YES
Do I mean that you should not eat while reading (either on-screen, or a newspaper, magazine or a book)? YES Do I mean that you shouldn’t eat in company? No, but you need to make sure your company knows you can be paying attention to your food. If they do not let you do that, then you need to commence seriously considering serving notice on them as dining companions.
Does it mean that you shouldn’t listen to music? No, but it does mean that you don’t want to be head-banging to the latest Iron Maiden album while you are eating your dinner.
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