by Robyn on March 17, 2010
No I’m not talking about somone stealing your lunch out of the break-room fridge, I’m talking about eating amnesia, which can certainly thwart our weight loss goals. While they do make plastic bags that give the appearance of moldy food to deter someone from snagging your sandwich, I’m unaware of a product that will help us avoid forgetting that we ate something. I should invent it.
In the meantime, if you are constantly asking yourself, “Did I eat lunch yet today?” or “Who ate the other 1/2 of my sandwich?” and so on, then you may suffer from eating amnesia. It may be worth your while to assess whether multi-tasking while eating is distracting you from paying attention to what ,or how much, you are eating.
Some of the most common distractions from paying attention to food are: watching TV, reading, working through a lunch break (especially eating during meetings), driving, feeding kids, cleaning the house, and even talking on the phone.
I know I can’t eat while driving; I pay no attention to the food. Are there any distractions that get in the way of you practicing mindful eating?
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by Cindy on March 16, 2010
They call him Flipper, Flipper, faster than lightning,
No one you see, is smarter than he,
And we know Flipper, lives in a world full of wonder,
Flying there under, under the sea!
I’m not sure when my dolphin love began. But, since I’m a product of the 60’s and 70’s, it could have started with Flipper on Sunday nights, or the first time I swam with dolphins (metaphorically) on The Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau.
I suspect it doesn’t really matter. Like most humans, I possess an unexplainable respect and admiration for dolphins which probably has more to do with our suspicion that they possess human qualities we’re only beginning to understand.
Exciting new research suggests that dolphins (bottlenose dolphins to be exact), have what could be considered a form of type 2 diabetes . The fascinating part, beyond the fact that they would have diabetes at all, is their ability to flip an internal switch and turn it on or off when it doesn’t serve them. It’s believed that this is an evolutionary adaptation in order to protect their big ol’ dolphin brains. Big, as in the second biggest brain next to ours – ratio-wise. [click to continue…]
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