Did you eat a lot during the Holiday season? Maybe you even gained weight you did not get rid of yet.
On average, people’s weight increased about 1.3 pounds during the Christmas-New Year’s season. And this is normal. People tend to move less when it is cold outside and eat more. And even if the numbers may vary, the fact that people gain weight during the holiday season is just the same all around the globe. About half of that weight comes off quickly after the holiday season ended, but the other half is not lost until about five months later, after Easter.
One way to get rid of the gained weight is to move more. Losing weight is pretty easy in principle. You just have to burn more calories than you eat and your body lives on its reserves, which makes you lose the weight. So basically there are two sides of the calorie that we have to look at when it comes to losing weight: Intake and burning. While there are a lot of diets that can help you lose weight over time, we believe paying attention to what and—above all—how much you eat in general can help you achieve a better and healthier lifestyle. You can accomplish this just by paying attention to your eating behavior and thereby changing your general eating habits.
Most of the time—if not always—we distract ourselves from the act of eating. We eat while watching TV, at our desks, or on the go. It is incredibly easy for us to eat without paying much attention to the portion we eat, the feeling of fullness or even flavor after the first bites. Distractions cause us to lose track of how much we are eating, causing us to overeat.
Mindful eating can help us counteract this “snacking-without-thinking” habit. We pay more attention to what we eat and how much. Thing of it as using all of your senses to eat. You begin with looking at your food, the color, the texture and shape. Take a moment to smell your food before you open your mouth and when you bite, listen to the sound it makes. Little kids take almost everything into their mouths because the tongue is an extremely sensitive sensory organ that enables them to explore almost anything on a level that is unreachable with the fingertips. So when you have something in your mouth, try to discover the texture and surface, whether it is a forkful of filet or salad. And when you have done that, really focus on the taste of what you are eating.
Nutritionists tell us all the time to chew every bite at least twenty times. Like that, we release a lot of saliva, which contains digestive enzymes that help us to digest better. The longer you chew on something, the more the taste changes. Pay attention to that, rather than watching TV or browsing the web.
We are not telling you to go through that procedure with every single bite. But what you could do is to start with the first bite. Or try to experience the first bite of everything, like the side dish or single ingredients. Eating is a sensational process. With all the information we are flooded with, we tend to forget that.
And when you feel sated, stop eating. Give your body the chance to tell you something and listen to it.
As a first exercise start with a Kyäni Sunrise. Taste the ingredients and try to see which one of the 12 powerful fruits and vegetables you can taste. Do the same with Kyäni Nitro and Kyäni Sunset. You can get the whole Kyäni Triangle of Wellness at shop.kyani.net.