Episode 10: Mindful Eating & Mindless Eating for Weight Loss
Cut The Fat Weight Loss Podcast
Ray Hinish And Blythe Wagner
4.7 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 22 January 2010
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
Most of the weight loss literature discusses how to consciously take control of your eating by counting calories, keeping a food diary or weighing out your food. These methods, although effective for a time, are difficult to maintain for a lifetime.
What if there were a better way, a way that uses the power of your strong subconscious mind rather than your weak conscious mind.
On our weight loss podcast and blog, we have discussed many of the principles around consciously changing your diet and lifestyle for weight loss purposes. In today’s article and podcast, we will discuss methods of using your subconscious mind to achieve your weight loss goals.
Mindful eating involves being present when you eat; paying attention to the taste, texture and flavors within the food. By using the principle of mindful eating, you allow your brain time to register the food.
Mindless eating is a scientific approach to tricking your brain into eating less. Mindless eating principles are based on the scientific fact that your satiety is determined more by your environment than your hunger signals. By using a number of scientifically validated techniques, you can literally trick the brain into decreasing calories without feeling deprived. Some of these principles include:
1. Using plates that are 10-20% smaller than your usual plates. The brain feels obligated to eat everything that is on your plate. By decreasing the size of the plate, you can trick the brain into feeling satisfied with less food. 2. Start the meal by throwing out 15-25% of the meal. This works on the same principle as described above. If you throw it out, you no longer have to consciously ask yourself if you have had enough. 3. Leave the uneaten food on the table. When your brain is able to see the remains of your eating, it is able to gauge the quantity that you have already eating.
Although mindful eating and mindless eating are both very powerful; by putting these two principles together you can dramat
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, my name is Blythalberg and I would like to welcome you to the Cut The Fat Podcast. |
| 0:06.5 | Visit us at www.cutthefatpodcast.com. |
| 0:11.0 | If you're new to us, we suggest that you listen to the first 3-5 podcasts for the basic |
| 0:16.0 | toolbox on Fatbox. |
| 0:19.0 | Alright everybody, welcome back to Cut The Fat Podcast. |
| 0:28.2 | I'm joined here in the studio of course with my co-host, Blythalberg Good, evening Blyth. |
| 0:33.9 | How are you doing? |
| 0:34.9 | Good evening. |
| 0:35.9 | I am fantastic. |
| 0:36.9 | How are you doing today? |
| 0:37.9 | Awesome. |
| 0:38.9 | I'm awesome, man. |
| 0:39.9 | It's a whole new year and we are just pushing forward. |
| 0:41.9 | We are pumped up guys. |
| 0:43.9 | Yes and we hope that you are as well. |
| 0:46.5 | Today's topic, well we're going to start by basically talking about, you know what? |
| 0:51.5 | It's a whole new fresh year. |
| 0:53.2 | So what can we do to kind of push forward and take our efforts to a whole new level? |
| 0:59.4 | I think taking it to a whole new level is a key phrase here. |
| 1:04.8 | You can be a healthy eater but there's always a new level to take it to. |
| 1:08.6 | So wherever you're at, try just taking another baby step up and increasing your awareness |
| 1:15.6 | about weight loss. |
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