Rule 3 - Eat Consciously
Published by Diet Trials January 19th, 2006 in Golden Rules, Week 2It’s now Day 10. Normally on a diet I would have had a hard time getting to this point. Sometimes when I diet I can stay focused for quite a while as long as I’m not having to travel to conferences, whereas other times I can start a diet with all good intentions and loose momentum after a week. The best I have done is when I went on the Atkins diet a few years ago, stayed on it for about 6 months and lost 2 and a half stone. Which may I add has all come back on again plus some more.
Anyway back to the point of this post. I am still getting used to the fact that I do not need to put so much food on my plate as I would normally do as by eating consciously you do get full quite quickly and then you have to stop eating. Last night was a classic example. We had gone to Marks and Spencers and treated ourselves to an easy meal. What we bought we would have normally eaten in one go but we decided to half it and have the rest tonight. Looking at my plate, I was slightly worried that this wouldn’t fill me up let alone even touch the sides as I was quite hungry.
By eating consciously and slowly I still get surprised as to how little my body actually needs to keep me going. Once I had finished my meal I was full… there was not quite enough on my plate to be able to leave some, which you are meant to try and do, but I still think that this is a waste of food. The only problem is which caused quite a bit of amusement while I ate last night was that when you start a meal you struggle to chew your food a lot as it is very hot and it can burn your mouth if you’re not careful…. then towards the end of your meal it has gone cold and is not too appetising.
Perhaps I should stick to having salads or something that is cold from the start. Or perhaps the whole conscious eating rule is only successful since you stop eating thinking you are full, but it is actually because eating food that has gone cold is fairly awful!
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How much have you managed to loose in 10 days then ?
Hi Denise
That’s a tricky question. After a couple of days I had lost 3 pounds… but one of the rules of the diet is that you can’t weigh yourself for 3 or 4 weeks to allow yourself the chance to see a difference. I reckon the 3 pounds would be just water though as whenever I normally go on a diet I have a sudden loss of a few pounds.
Are you yourself on the Paul McKenna diet?
hi denise, i just wanted to say i have broken the not getting weighed rule, and so far i have lost 9lb but i am a big girl and have a lot to loose. My husband has lost 8lb doing the same diet ,jen