This week is about simply enjoying our eating experience. It’s that simple. It links to the “make peace with food principle”, as it requires us to eat what we really want. How can you feel satisfied if you eat a rice cracker if what you really wanted is crisps? This is because you will most probably eat much more of the substitute diet foods than the foods you really crave (provided you’ve made peace with them, cause otherwise you may invoke the power of deprivation). In other words, it’s much easier to feel your fullness if you are satisfied with your eating experience. This principle reminds me of what my grand-granddad use to say: “Stani kad ti je najsladje”, a mantra I intend to adopt.

Please note, I swapped weeks 6 and 7, this is not in order of the 10 intuitive eating principles.
 
The focus for this week:
  • I will focus on choosing to eat what I really want by following my intuition – literally my gut feeling. :-) This is all about follow your body’s wisdom. Your body knows what it needs, and it lets you know that by sending you craving signals, and making some foods look, taste and feel more pleasurable. Listen to it, and you will reach the ultimate satisfaction
  • Taking the time to eat and enjoy food. “Make all activities pertaining to food and eating pleasurable ones,” is one of the Japanese dietary guidelines for health promotion. I intend to experiment with it this week