I know many of you might be planning your strategy of how to maintain and yet enjoy the holiday goodies. We agonize about gaining weight, watching what we eat, weighing our food, counting calories, denying ourselves the foods we like and eat what we may not like and wonder why we still keep putting on the weight.
I would like to encourage you this holiday season to eat the foods you really enjoy and what you do not enjoy do not eat. Let your body do the selecting for you and watch what happens. There is a school of thought which says that your body absorbs less of the nutrients of the foods that you do not like and what you like it absorbs a much higher percentage. I think we do not give our bodies the respect it deserves. We have mistrusted it for so long that we do not know how to begin to trust our instinct about what the body needs. There is an intelligence there that leads us to the foods that we need to eat, if we but only trust its wisdom. We run around in circles, going crazy with a new diet each week only to be disappointed. Don't do that anymore.
According to information gleaned for Wikipedia, Intuitive eating is anutrition philosophy based on the premise that becoming more attuned to the body's natural hunger signals is a more effective way to attain a healthy weight, rather than keeping track of the amounts of energy and fats in foods. It's a process that is intended to create a healthy relationship with food, mind, and body. Intuitive Eating, just like many other dieting philosophies, goes by many names, including non-dieting or the non-diet approach, normal eating, wisdom eating, conscious eating and more.
Doesn't this sound more practical, something you can adhere to for a long time? Who can count calories and weigh everything you put into your mouth. Gosh, that takes all the fun out of eating.
Here's a tip, according to Baha'u'allah who said he is the Messenger sent by God to guide man in this modern day, eventually, mankind will become vegetarians. It is our natural dietary culture.
As humanity progresses, meat will be used less and less, for the teeth of man are not carnivorous. For example, the lion is endowed with carnivorous teeth, which are intended for meat, and if meat be not found, the lion starves. The lion cannot graze; its teeth are of different shape. The digestive system of the lion is such that it cannot receive nourishment save through meat. The eagle has a crooked beak, the lower part shorter than the upper. It cannot pick up grain; it cannot graze; therefore, it is compelled to partake of meat. The domestic animals have herbivorous teeth formed to cut grass, which is their fodder. The human teeth, the molars, are formed to grind grain. The front teeth, the incisors, are for fruits, etc. It is, therefore, quite apparent according to the implements for eating that man's food is intended to be grain and not meat. When mankind is more fully developed, the eating of meat will gradually cease.
If you eat in moderation, all will be fine. If you overdo anything it will be bad for you so , enjoy yourself, eat consciously, know what you are eating and don't rush, the food will not run away from you, simply sit back enjoy the company of family and friends and watch your weight slide off you like water on a duck's back.
Have a happy, festive season.
