Mindful Eating and how it can help you Helpto stop eating with anxiety.

Due to our fast-paced lifestyles, we often overeat quickly, as if it were a mere formality, without even realizing what we're doing. This is mainly due to stress. In fact, it often happens that We eat in front of electronic devices (television, mobile phone, tablets, etc.), and/or we use food as an escape route to calmnegative emotions and thoughts that lead us to generate even more craving instead of calmarnos.

All of this makes us overeat, feel full later, and cause indigestion. This is why the concept of Mindful Eating.

He "Mindful Eating" or "Mindful Eating" is a practice that is increasingly present in our current society, and which consists of focusing all our attention on the act of eating in order to reduce "emotional eating," that is, hunger that is generated not so much by a physiological need, but by pure craving.

It is a process that involves "raising our awareness by observing our eating patterns with curiosity and acceptance, being aware of how we make decisions about what foods to eat, how and when to do so." says Javier García Campayo, coordinator of the Mindfulness Master's at the University of Zaragoza and member of the Psychiatry Service at the Miguel Servet Hospital in Zaragoza.

It is very important to know how to distinguish when eating with physiological hunger or when it is done with hunger emotional. Differentiating between these two concepts is essential to changing the way we relate to food.

The first is when you feel in the stomach a physical necessity and you stop eating when you are full compared to the second one that you continue eating even when you are already full, sometimes even feeling guilty and ashamed of what you have eaten.

This feeling of blame It makes us enter a negative loop, leading us to slimming or restrictive diets to compensate for the binge we have had, leading us to an unhealthy relationship with food.

Normally, when this happens to us, we choose foods rich in carbohydrates or processed products with high levels of sugar It has been proven that eating sugar reduces the stress hormone cortisol, and this gives us pleasure to mitigate that stress for a few seconds, but unfortunately it doesn't disappear, quite the opposite, as it comes back again and again.

In short, We often use food as a drug to escape from problems, cover up emotions or reward ourselves. and all of this comes down to satisfying that inner emptiness we have.

All of this is normal and happens to us all. Throughout our lives, we experience moments of loneliness, grief, separation, work stress, feelings of inner emptiness, and many other causes. But when this stress or anxiety about eating occurs from time to time and has a justified cause, there's no need to worry. The problem comes when we eat compulsively and unconsciously on a continuous basis, as we begin to a chronic condition that can lead to eating disorders that require professional attention.

This concept goes further, meaning it not only involves being aware of what we eat and how we eat it, but also encompasses the entire process before and after eating.

That's why I want to share with you 10 guidelines that you are going Helpto follow a healthy and conscious eating:

1. When you make the purchase, read the labels carefully to avoid consuming ingredients that do not nourish.
2. Prioritize the purchase of fresh and seasonal products, reducing packaged and processed products.
3. Kitchen enjoying and paying full attention to the process and being aware of the ingredients to use.
4. Eat in a pleasant atmosphere, avoiding all types of electronic devices.
5. Make a deep breathing before starting to eat.
6. Give thanks for the luck you have to be able to eat and above all,Nourish yourself with all the nutrients on your plate to give your body the best.
7. Chew good food.
8. Pay attention to the flavors, smells and texture and how foods combine with each other.
9. Stop eating when you are full so as not to reach a state of heaviness and bloating abdominal.
10. Don't judge yourself on how you ate. We must change the feeling of guiltby observing and asking yourself why you have eaten without being aware and naming the emotions-feelings that have led you to eat without being aware.
    

Apply the mindfulness to your lifestyle is a meditation technique that will help you Helpto live in the present and fight cravings.