Conscious Eating

My technique to start filtering bad foods

I've been trying to eat consciously without any success.

Yes, I know what foods are bad in general, but since I know how the guts work, it doesn’t mean they are bad for me. Exception: highly processed foods, sweeteners, hydrogenated oils, refined grains, cured meats. Those are bad for any human (apply this technique and you’ll start noticing).

So I eat bad food, but just because I know it’s bad it didn’t stop me from eating it again. So there must be something else.

Now I found it.

I learned this technique from the Wildfit program in Mindvalley.

Now I get the signals not only from bad foods, but also from foods that are good in general, but not so good for me. This technique helped me start listening to my guts.

So, here’s the technique:

1. Decide what you’ll eat consciously. If it’s bad, it’s bad, but you choose to eat it and that’s perfectly ok.

2. Eat the food slowly. Don’t drink water with it.

3. Chew 20 times for each bite.

4. While chewing, feel how the taste is evolving in your mouth. Connect the feeling with the food.

5. When you’re done, observe yourself. Feel what’s happening in your stomach.

6. Observe how you feel. This is the feeling you get from this exact food.

7. Remember that feeling for the next time when you want to eat that food.

8. Eat it with the knowledge of how it will make you feel.

The key: feelings. We remember the way something makes us feel much more than any other knowledge. Focus on them. That’s how you build a conscious eating habit.

My experience: You can literally feel when your sugar spikes to unhealthy levels: the dizziness and the desire to take a nap. With highly processed foods: I feel a film covering my mouth while chewing - it’s the unhealthy fats, it fells like poison.

Good food should make you feel energized after eating.

If you feel sleepy, your guts are sending you a signal.

Listen to it.

And remember to Have a GUT time!