PURPOSEFUL EATING

Purposeful Eating /Thoughtful Eating

Getting distracted while eating is common. However, it can affect your relationship with food, making weight loss a daunting task. At The EnLyv Me Medical Weight loss Clinics ur team of experts highly recommends purposeful eating as part of your personalized weight loss program. With Purposeful eating, you can develop a healthy relationship with food, enabling you to lose weight and keep it off long after reaching your goals. For more information about purposeful eating. Schedule an appointment by phone or online today.

Purposeful Eating Q&A
What Is purposefulEating?

Purposeful eating is a technique that addresses the psychological and social aspects of your eating habits. It is about using Thoughtfulness to reach a state of awareness or full attention to your cravings, experiences, and cues when eating and forming a relationship with food and your body. It’s also a vital component of any individualized weight-loss plan at EnLyv Me Medical Weight Loss.
Purposeful Eating is a concept originating from Jainism that tunes you in to your thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. It’s also a common practice in psychology that treats mental health conditions like depression and anxiety. By becoming more conscious of your internal thoughts and external environment while eating, you can reduce harmful behaviors like binge eating, eating as an emotional coping mechanism, and intuitive eating because of cues like sights and smells. It is the practice of slowing down and eating with intention.
At EnLyv Me Medical Weight Loss, we integrate Purposeful Eating into your individualized weight-loss plan. Alongside nutritional management, weight loss, medications, regular health monitoring, and other services, purposeful eating can lead to substantial positive changes for your overall health and well-being.

Purposeful Eating may help you:

• Build and maintain better healthy habits
• Make better food decisions
• Feel less stressed about your diet
• Promote a more positive outlook
• Increase self-awareness

How Can I Learn About Purposeful Eating?

We make purposeful eating easy for you to learn and integrate into your daily life. We help you deconstruct and reassess your eating habits so you can rebuild them in a healthier way using approaches such as:

• Avoiding distractions during meals, like your phone, reading, or the television
• Chewing and eating more slowly
• Distinguishing between true hunger and non-hunger triggers for eating
• Focusing on your feelings throughout a meal
• Listening to physical hunger and noticing when you start to feel full
• Focusing on sensations like the taste, color, sounds and smells texture, and smell during a meal
• Being aware of the effects that food has on your figure and feelings
• Asking yourself if you’re starving before you eat
• Use smaller serving utensils to avoid overeating
• Learning to cope with guilt and anxiety about food
• Eating to maintain your overall health and well-being
• Distinguishing between true hunger and non-hunger triggers for eating
• Eliminate distractions by turning off the TV and putting down your phone

What Are the Benefits of Purposeful Eating?

Purposeful eating is often overlooked as an essential strategy for long-term weight loss. Without examining your relationship with food and taking the time to address and alter behaviors around eating, you might eventually gain the weight back after you lose it.
At EnLyv Me Medical Weight Loss, we can help you explore the benefits of purposeful eating concerning your own life.
These benefits might include the following:

• Less binge eating and overeating
• Healthier food choices
• Fewer cravings
• Improved digestion and less bloating and gas
• Weight loss management and maintenance
• Recognizing when you feel full
• Reducing distractions while eating
• Better nutrient absorption
• Stress reduction
• Recognizing triggers that drive you to eat when you’re not hungry

In a fast-paced culture, eating often becomes an automatic process. This leads to unhealthy eating behaviors that can promote weight gain or inhibit weight loss. Purposeful eating helps you focus more on the foods and know when to stop eating to consume fewer calories.
Purposeful eating can help reduce the consumption of unhealthy food choices and make you more self-aware of your body’s hunger cues. For more information on how we can help you lose weight through purposeful eating, contact EnLyv Me Medical Weight Loss or schedule an appointment online today.