Did anyone happen to catch this on Sunday? I'm trying so hard to make good habits for life-long eating and this was interesting. I know people say, "Well you have had WLS so?" Well putting your knife and fork down, between bites, and actually savoring your food is something I so don't do. I put a certain amount on my plate and then I eat it. What if I were to slow down my eating, savor my food and actually listened to my body's response; like "Hey, I'm full down here!" WHAT!!! You mean I still have to do all of this with WLS!! LOL!! I am getting better, but at this point in my new lifestyle, I think I should be further ahead on the eating plan than I am.
Everything he said made sense too me except maybe eat when you are hungry. I would be eating when I "think" I'm hungry. I'm still scheduling my meals most of the time and the every three hour thing is still something I have to do because of my stupid blood sugars. I've been fighting head hunger really badly the last two week.
So what is the point of all of this: Newbies and Oldies don't listen to your head and all you newbies start really good habits at the beginning. And don't listen to your head!!! Did I mention "Don't listen to your head!" LOL
For me it makes complete sense... I am one of those people that eats way too fast and am a "plate cleaner". I am going to try and stop counting calories/points and make healthy choices but ONLY eat when I am truly hungry and stop when I am full... While slowing down along the way... I feel it will put ME back in control of my weight rather than having 'a diet' control me...
I'm inspired. I found a link on line about the "Golden Rules" and copied the information so I can refer back to it...
First 4 Golden Rules - More to come next week...
1.) When You Are Hungry, Go Eat!
I’ll summarize a few of his statements -
Physical and emotional hunger are different -
Don’t starve yourself -
Stay between 3 and 7 on the ‘Hunger Scale’
1. Physically faint
2. Ravenous
3. Fairly Hungry
4. Slightly Hungry
5. Neutral
6. Satisfied
7. Full
8. Stuffed
9. Bloated
10. Nauseous
Starving does not work - too much guilt - we start ourselves throughout the ‘day’ and then ‘binge at night’
Metabolism is important -
TELL YOUR BODY THAT YOU ARE NOT GOING TO STARVE IT AND THAT YOU ARE GOING TO GIVE IT ENOUGH FOOD
2.) Eat What You Want
OK, I’ll summarize a few things he said about “eat what you want”
Eat what you want, not what you think you ’should’ -
When we eat what we want, we stop depriving ourselves -
3.) Eat Consciously!
Again, I’ll summarize a few of the points he makes -
People who overeat ‘think’ about food all the time, but, when it comes ‘time’ to eat, they ’shovel food’ into their mouths -
Eat slowly, think about each and every food -
Chew the food and think about it -
Like when we ‘drive’ on the freeway, when we get ‘on an on-ramp’, we realize how fast we’ve been driving -
Eating consciously - slowly, no distractions, enjoying the food - allows us to actually feel ‘full’ when we are -
Eat at a quarter of the speed that you normal eat at -
4.) When You’re Full, Stop Eating!
I’ll summarize a few of Paul’s thoughts -
The more you listen to the ‘full’ signal, the better you’ll feel -
We decide how much we want from what we see, not from how we feel -
Our stomach will tell us how much to eat -
Last edited by Marathon Mom; 03-18-2008 at 07:55 AM.
this is ALL so true!!! this is what we mean when we say things like 'you have to re-learn everything you ever THOUGHT you knew about eating.' it's not just WHAT you eat, it's also HOW you eat, when you eat, why you eat.
and so on and so forth.
nobody got to the point where they qualified for WLS by paying attention to their body's rhythms and signals!!!! if there's one universal truth for each and every one of us, WE IGNORED OUR BODIES!!!!
Soooo True Jiffy. I saw the promo's for the show but didn't DVR it...Darn it! I will do that for next week! I was just talking to a friend about Intuitive Eating and Food Meditation...it all sounds good...some of it doesn't apply after WLS...but it could still be adapted.
I caught the rerun of this show late last night. His rules seemed so simple that they couldn't possibly be right. I tried his suggestions today and I'm just shocked at the fact that I didn't need to eat a large quantity of food at my meals. I think I'm going to give this method a few weeks to see what happens. I can't wait until the next show on emotional eating.
His "rules" are nothing new. If you read the book MIndless Eating, you'll see that all that information is based on years of studies about why we eat what we do.
The problem is that as a society we aren't eating mindfully. That's the whole point - that we don't eat just to fill hunger these days. It's a social event. We get huge portions, we eat because we are bored....etc.
Just jumping in here because I did see the show and found it intriguing. It actually made some sense to me. The one thing I didn't like, though, is that he seemed completely unaware of the fact that not all of us have time to spend thirty or forty minutes on a meal while doing nothing else. (One of his instructions under the "eat consciously" rule was that you shouldn't be watching TV or reading or working or driving while you eat.) Sometimes I do have the time, but so often I don't. I have five kids, a job that's either really crazy (which is why I'm working at 2:15 a.m. on Easter!) or almost non-existent, and other obligations. So - can I really take time out every time I want to eat to just sit there and savor my food? I don't think so. I try to take a bite, savor it while I get back to work, then take another bite a few minutes later, etc.
The other minor issue I have is with the "eat what you want," and then he showed some woman eating macaroni and cheese. Okay. I understand the reasoning - we don't ever want to feel deprived - but I think this should have had a few caveats. I have learned to enjoy many healthy foods because I wanted something lower calorie and nutrient-dense, and I enjoy many of these way more than some items I used to binge on. M&C is fairly nutritionally void and calorie-dense. There are studies that talk about how many people are thin and unhealthy. Might this be a recipe for that (assuming it will make people thin, of course)? (And isn't this one of the reasons surgeons are reluctant to perform WLS on teenagers - that they will restrict their intake because of the surgeon, but will not have the discipline to make their calories count?)
Other than that, I agree with Stefani that it's not ground-breaking information, but I also agree with other posters that there is much wisdom in what he says.
"I Can Make You Thin"
