After reading Learn to Eat 1 When I first started reading this book, I thought it didn't match my original intention, but I still gained a lot after reading it carefully. The word "mindfulness" is enough. Losing weight, overeating and other issues do not seem to be my concern, but after reading this book, I think it should be of great help to people who want to lose weight, and it is worth reading at leisure.
The biggest gain from this book is the word "mindfulness", focusing on the present, listening carefully to the information sent by the body and feeling the real feelings at this moment. I used to think there was nothing to learn about eating, so I picked up the food and ate it. But do we really feel how hungry we are before eating? How hungry are you? Does this hunger come from physiology or from external interference? For example, do you want to eat because you are in a bad mood, or do you just pick it up and eat it because the food is lying in front of you? Or blindly pick it up because others are eating it? When we are eating, can we really feel the taste of food? With the increase of food intake, has the taste of food changed, and what changes have taken place in the feeling of fullness in the abdomen? Wait, have you experienced some of the feelings during the meal in detail?
When we eat, we should pay more attention to the present, ask ourselves how we feel now, ask our tongue, nose, teeth, stomach and brain how we feel ... We can't help but find out how much food we have squandered without knowing its taste, just like that pig and pig ate ginseng fruit. Eating too much and overeating without knowing it is not a waste of food, and it is harmful to your health.
There is something in the book that is also worth sharing. "Mindfulness" means to perceive and observe all this as a third party, without any criticism or evaluation, that is, in the state of "mindfulness", what you feel is no different from what you are doing now, and there is no right or wrong. Just tell the truth. The biggest advantage of doing this is that you can show your true self, understand your true thoughts, speak with facts and generate endogenous motivation to change the status quo.
Finally, this book should be very suitable for overeating and obese people to study hard. With the theory and specific practice methods, I think I can get unexpected gains step by step according to the exercises in the book.
After reading Learn to Eat, I recently read Learn to Eat. First of all, I am a reader attracted by headlines and covers. After reading it carefully, I think this book is worth reading.
This book mainly talks about using mindfulness diet to guide our diet. My understanding of the so-called "mindfulness diet" is that when eating, I feel the signals transmitted by our bodies, eat flexibly and enjoy food.
For example, the first signal, our taste buds, the delicious and joyful feeling when we eat the first bite of our favorite food, and then the second bite and the third bite ... But we should pay attention to the taste of food when eating, and don't be distracted by watching videos and walking. Feel the taste of every bite of food carefully and chew it slowly. In fact, after eating, you will find that the food is getting less and less tasteless, and you may just feel sweet and salty at the back. This is your taste buds telling you to stop eating this food. At first, I said in the book that if you feel it carefully, the food will become more and more tasteless. I am still skeptical. I tried it myself later. I really think it's polite to say that the more you eat, the worse it tastes. It's getting better and better!
The second body signal is the feeling of fullness in the stomach. When eating, you can pay attention to the change of taste and feel that your abdomen is getting fuller and fuller. You can choose your most comfortable satiety.
The third signal is the feeling of the body, that is, after food enters the stomach, it is digested and absorbed, and blood sugar rises, so that the body tells you not to eat any more. However, I think the third signal is not as detailed as the first and second signals, probably because the fact that blood sugar rises is not so easy to feel compared with the feeling of taste buds and abdominal fullness.
Then the book also puts forward some solutions to overeating. First of all, you have to distinguish whether you are really hungry or because of emotional eating. If you are really hungry or hungry+emotional, you still have to eat something. However, from my personal experience, there is no question of being hungry. Sometimes I want to eat something to vent or celebrate because I am unhappy, irritable or too happy. Or want to avoid some problems, don't want to do something, and delay time by eating. Anyway, there are two ways to eat emotionally, one is to eat and the other is to divert attention.
In short, this book is still very good, with a lot of interesting content, small exercises and reflections. You can choose some to practice according to your own situation, and I believe you will get something, especially about diet and weight loss.