Tag: Mindful eating
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Screen-free eating, step by step
Screens have become a frequent meal-time companion. But how we break the habit of eating with our phones and move toward mindful eating? Meals as a family are a treasure-trove of health benefits and building connections – a ritual I adore. But there’s one thing that can ruin it for me, and that’s my phone.…
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Mealtimes made mindful
Dietitian Lucy Carey gives 5 simple mealtime habits to turn any meal or snack into a mindful eating experience. You have a fork in one hand and a phone in the other. Your mind is reading emails and scrolling socials while your body is eating lunch. In a few moments time, you will glance down…
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You don’t need more willpower to lose weight
Dietitian Lucy Carey explains how healing your relationship with food may be the ultimate weight loss hack. Imagine a time when food was simply a part of life. What you ate said nothing about you as a person. It was not a moral choice. Eating was simply guided by hunger and availability. Guilt wasn’t an…
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Mindful eating this festive season
Mindfulness has huge benefits to health and has exploded in popularity. So how can we transfer mindfulness to how we eat? He was giving me the side-eye. My six-year-old was unimpressed that I was reading emails off my phone at the breakfast table. He was perhaps too polite to point it out verbally, but he…
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Mindful eating and hypocrisy
I dipped my spoon into my soup and slurped the creamy goodness noisily. I crunched my piece of toast, delighting at the way it broke into chunks in my mouth… And then crumbs spilled all over my keyboard and I very nearly knocked the bowl of soup over trying to clean it up. I eat…
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Of course I eat cake
Your food choices will be judged no matter what you do. Dietitian Lucy Carey recalls one particular time a piece of chocolate cake caused a fuss… I was at an office morning tea last week and, being quite hungry, I chowed down on a piece of chocolate cake. Later on, a woman I didn’t know…