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Did you know that mindful eating is at least half, if not more, of the secret of maintaining optimal weight? in fact, when we include the "mindful" part, our path to achieving this becomes less of a battle, and more of a wonderful journey.
In reality, slowing up revs up your metabolism, as opposed to slowing it down. That's why the term "slowing up" instead of "slowing down" has been used. I first came across this in the book "The Slow Down Diet" by Marc David, published by Healing Arts Press. Some of what the author talks about in the book is summarized below. Because we live such a hectic life, once we slow up, we allow our body to reduce stress, digest our food better, absorb nutrients more efficiently, take in more oxygen to provide us with more energy, and generally increase our metabolic power.
What this basically comes down to is that if our meals are deficient in time, awareness, pleasure, relaxation, rhythm, thought, story, and the sacred, as well as high quality food, we are doing ourselves a great disservice and working at cross purposes with our body.
