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Make Eating a Positive Experience

What and how we eat is often swayed by how we are feeling at the time and not always in positive ways.

Here are some suggestions as to how we might change bad habits around eating and making eating a mindful, positive experience.

Eat with others

There are lots of good reasons to eat with others. There is the opportunity to share the pleasure of the cooking for someone, and the special treat of feeding someone a meal you care about and you put your heart into preparing. There is the emotional support and connection of eating with family, with friends. We are more motivated to prepare a meal, when we’re sharing meals with someone else.

Get rid of distractions

It is a good idea to turn your off mobile phone when eating, to avoid the possible distraction of interacting with it. Technology adds another layer between you and mindful eating, and disengaging with your phone, or pc while eating, helps you to focus on your food.

Understand your emotions, but don’t eat because of them

Our emotions influence how we feel, which in turn affects what and how we want to eat. Some people stress eat, while others don’t eat when they’re stressed. The best thing to do is to stand back and acknowledge your emotion, while making conscious choices about what to eat.

Get rid of ‘good’ and ‘bad’ labels

While we hear about foods that are ‘good’ and ‘bad’ for us all the time, there is no reason to feel guilty for not making healthy choices, all the time. If you are taking care of yourself, then you deserve a treat and snack from time to time without worrying about it. Also, once you start eating more mindfully, you will find that your cravings change, and what once was satisfying, may be less satisfying.

Take your time when eating

This seems like a very simple suggestion but is surprisingly difficult. We are used to eating on the go, often without even sitting down. An important element to mindful eating, is giving yourself time to think about your food while you’re eating it, tasting each bite while chewing slowly. Put your fork down in between bites makes as pause as we are eating and will help us to slow down our mealtime.

Stop before you feel full

When we are eating mindlessly and eating without thinking about it, it is easy to keep eating. Part of mindful eating is knowing what it feels like to feel satisfied, which is not the same as being full. Eating slowly helps us to not overeat. Research shows it takes our brain about 20 minutes, before it gets the message that we are full by which time we can easily have over-eaten. also in all probability, what we think is a sensible portion is more than what we really need to eat.

Conclusion

It is important to enjoy your eating experience. Try to figure out what part of mindful eating you really enjoy and do more of it. Is it the cooking you enjoy, or dressing the table, particularly when it comes to dinner parties.

Whatever it is, find ways to incorporate it into your routine, so that it becomes part of your food preparation and dining experiences. If you want mindful eating to work, you need to enjoy it.

Source: https://www.takingcharge.csh.umn.edu

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Expectations

 This may be a blog entry that goes all over the place a bit 😊.  Realized something about expectations yesterday; well, I guess I should say that I had a moment of clarity about expectations yesterday, interestingly watching the Penn State football game against Ohio State.  Also had a moment of clarity on expectations on Friday night at the Penn State vs. Arizona State wrestling match.  Maybe I am learning more about setting, or not setting for that matter, expectations or it could be that my expectations are becoming more realistic.  That said, or I must don’t put sports on such a high pedestal any more 😊.  I do believe there are much to learn from sports in many different areas.  Sports taught me a tone growing up and many of those lessons still hold true for me today.  

 (See, going all over the place.)

On to the point!  Yesterday’s Penn State vs. Ohio State football game matched #2 OSU vs. #8 PSU. OSU has been playing lights out and they haven’t been challenged throughout the year.  PSU, although in my opinion, exceeding expectations this year, hadn’t been playing very well and recently lost to the #10 team in the country, Minnesota two weeks ago.  I know what some might be saying, “is this about college football, who cares?” Well, I do, and it is my blog and I do believe there are messages to share and lessons from everything we experience.  That said, PSU was 19.5-point underdog as the game started (this is for the betting folks out there, 😊) and the pundits, all of them, were picking PSU to get beat, badly.  We were hoping for a competitive game but our expectations (here it comes), were quite low and when OSU was up 21-0 early in the third quarter, those expectations were being met.  Up to this point, we (Robin and I) were laughing, enjoying the game, but more importantly, just grateful to be relaxing on the couch, Saturday morning, watching college football together.  We were calm and at ease throughout the game.  This is unlike me because I am usually screaming at the TV, coaches, refs, etc. especially in this type of game.  Again, I get it, it is college football, what is the big deal? Well, there isn’t a big deal, but I like college football and it is enjoyable to me.  Do I get a little “too passionate” with it? Sure, but that is part of the fun.  Do I cry myself to sleep when PSU loses? No, because, it is just a game. As the 3rd quarter continued, PSU began to climb its way back due to some good playing and capitalizing on some OSU mistakes.  As the 4th quarter came around, it was 21-17 OSU and PSU was driving for what would be the go-ahead score.  We were getting excited a bit then they threw an interception, OSU went down the field on their possession, and scored, and that put the game away.  PSU ended up losing by 11 points.  A loss is a loss but considering the build up and everything that was happening, for those that follow college football, it was a good lesson for PSU’s team leading toward the post season and potentially next year. For me, I noticed something about expectations for this, yes, college football, but also for life.  

 My expectation going into the game was that PSU was going to lose.  Sorry to be a downer but that was, in my opinion a reality and one that yes, isn’t the end of the world. 😊  However, that enabled me to not have stress, anxiety, and I think most importantly, let something that wasn’t a huge deal cause me stress.  Here comes the “big deal” part of it.  How often to we let unrealistic expectations about many things, build up in our mind?  When the events and circumstances around those unrealistic expectations aren’t lining up together, how often do we have stress, anxiety, maybe even fear and uncertainty? How do those moments feel? Then, when those unrealistic expectations aren’t meant, how do we feel after? Sad, unfulfilled, not happy, maybe even mad, angry, or depressed????  It could be football, a job, a relationship, a conversation with your child.  When we expect things to go a certain way and they don’t, we tend to be let down.  Is that the best way for us to navigate an already complicated and challenging journey?

 I’ve quoted this and put this out there a lot over the years, “trade expectations for appreciation.”  I do believe the first time I heard it was by Tony Robbins so credit to him.  😊  You can describe it as appreciate or gratitude; I believe both have a place here.  I mentioned how Robin and I were enjoying the game yesterday, just hanging on the couch on a Saturday morning watched football.  Good way to start a Saturday right vs. running around like we typically do during the week.  We were appreciating that time.  It was a similar experience I had with Alaina, our youngest on Friday.  Friday night, #1 Penn State & #5 Arizona State were wrestling here in AZ down in Tempe, about 30 minutes from where we live. As discussed before, wrestling is THE sport that played the biggest role in my life and having the opportunity to watch PSU come to AZ was certainly a treat. Being able to take Alaina was awesome too.  She is involved in sports and likes it and sharing the sport that I love with her and exposing her to the best in the country, talk about appreciation.  That match was terrific and the time with Alaina was so much fun.  She was asking questions about who will win, how good are the wrestlers, where are they ranked, and about the rules.  It was very cute, and I felt incredible joy to be able to share in this moment.  As expected, (see that word there) the wrestling was top notch and the matches, and over all competition was exciting as all hell.  ASU ended up upsetting the #1 team in the country and halted PSU’s 60 match unbeaten streak.  It was great to witness.  Don’t get me wrong, I love PSU wrestling and it has been awesome to see their journey over the last decade.  However, ASU wrestling has a warm spot in my heart too.  When we last lived in AZ I used to head down to matches.  This is back in 2003-2007 timeframe when they would get a few hundred folks out for a match.  I do remember, when the girls were just born, Alaina may have been 6 months old, Iowa came to town and they were #1 and they may have had 1,000 people there.  Friday night, they broke an attendance record with over 8,500 fans in attendance and they were electric.  I was disappointed a bit that PSU lost but was so happy for the ASU program and for the sport of wrestling, I believe it was a great thing.  As for expectations, yes, I did EXPECT to see great wrestling, which I did.  I did THINK, PSU would win but again, my expectation was realistic; to see great wrestling, enjoy my date night with my daughter, and enjoy an awesome match up. Those realistic expectations were met and exceed because of what transpired and, the crowd was awesome. It had been a while since I was at a college wrestling match, and, much longer since I wrestled in one 😊.  Things have certainly changed in the last 25 years but being able to experience that moment, with my daughter, not having unrealistic expectations, provided an enjoyable night.  

 So yes, this entry had a lot to do with sports and maybe that is most relatable to the audience here.  However, the lessons are transferable over to everything we do. Let go of expectations.  It is great to have desires, dreams, and “hope your team wins,” (that is a metaphor 😊) but let go of those unrealistic expectations and enjoy the experience as it unfolds.  Something I need to practice and get much, much better at 😊!!

 “Are you holding yourself ransom to your own future expectations?” - Lucas Jadin

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