What is Conscious Eating?

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Many people find it difficult to eat without distractions. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Despite proclaiming that they love food so much that they can't stop eating before they're stuffed, they don’t want to waste their time actually paying attention to what they’re eating.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">It’s interesting to think about. If you love the taste of something, why don’t you actually want to taste it? Why do you purposely distract yourself from it? </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Learning how to eat consciously is an important skill if you want to enjoy your food and lose weight without dieting. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Mindful eating is ideal and wonderful, but it’s hard to do when you have 15 minutes to eat lunch, or are trying to feed 2 preschoolers while eating your own breakfast. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Because learning to eat without distractions may be the thing my clients struggle with the most, I thought it would be easier to teach people to simply be there with their food and enjoy it, rather than taste every mouthful in a meditative way. Hence, conscious eating was born! </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">I chose to use the term “conscious eating” for what I think of as being one step removed from mindful eating. Not quite mindful eating, but quite a lot better than fog eating, which is eating with distractions. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Listen to learn about the benefits of conscious eating and how to eat consciously.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Grab a copy of my free 30 Days of Conscious Eating Calendar available under Free Resources on my website. I created it to help you ease into conscious eating. There’s a link in the show notes.</span></p>