{"id":122,"date":"2019-10-06T12:17:58","date_gmt":"2019-10-06T16:17:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/capablecoach.com\/articles\/?p=122"},"modified":"2024-05-25T14:02:16","modified_gmt":"2024-05-25T18:02:16","slug":"two-guidelines-for-attaining-a-healthy-body-weight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lindabolle.com\/articles\/2019\/10\/06\/two-guidelines-for-attaining-a-healthy-body-weight\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Guidelines for Attaining a Healthy Body Weight"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

In his book Meditating to Attain a Healthy Body Weight<\/em>,\nauthor Lawrence Leshan offers up two guidelines for attaining\u2014and, I would add,\nmaintaining\u2014a healthy body weight. While the first of these two guidelines\nfocuses on what<\/em>\u2014or, more precisely, what not<\/strong><\/em>\u2014to\neat, the second of these guidelines focuses on how<\/em> to eat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While opinions vary on that\nwhich constitutes a healthy diet, most of us can agree on the types of \u201cfoods\u201d\nthat are unhealthy, i.e., those with no nutritive value (they don\u2019t call it \u201cjunk\nfood\u201d for nothing); as such, the first of Leshan\u2019s guidelines is: \u201calways,\nalways, eat with respect, with respect for your body. Because if you respect\nyour body, you are never likely to regard it as a garbage can.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Leshan goes on to assert that\n\u201cthe more important part of that perspective is that you avoid the biggest trap\nof all, which is to tell yourself, \u2018don’t eat that.\u2019 Once you get caught in\nthat trap, you are losing. It is like telling yourself, \u2018don’t have an itch on\nyour nose.\u2019 Do you feel it? Or, \u2018try to think about not swallowing.\u2019 Free\npeople don’t like to be told \u2018don’t.\u2019 When God said to Adam and Eve, \u2018don’t eat\nthe apple,\u2019 that was the end of Paradise. This is a basic observation about the\nhuman condition. Why not use this knowledge if you want to devise a strategy\nthat can work? You can use it this way: turn it around and you have a\ncorollary, which is that a far more effective way to change behavior is to do\nit on the basis of something you are for. So if you approach it this way, you\nwill respect and protect your body. In the course of protecting your body from\novereating, you can radically change your behavior, but you feel it as \u2018yes, I\nrespect my body,\u2019 instead of \u2018don’t eat that.\u2019\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Per Leshan, the second\nguideline, which focuses on how<\/em> to\neat, \u201cis going to surprise you. Learn to eat like a gourmet. Why a gourmet?\nBecause a gourmet pays full attention to every swallow. Every swallow is a\ntotal encounter with food. He is aware of the touch, the taste, the smell, the\ntemperature, the texture of the food, and with such total involvement that it\nis incredible how much fulfillment and enjoyment he gets out of each swallow.\nIn fact, this whole process not only helps you to radically change your eating\nbehavior, but it brings joy back to eating again. The gourmet does not make the\nmistake of saying, \u2018oh I swallowed that food, but I don’t remember what it\ntastes like; I had better take another bite.\u2019 The reason a gourmet does not\nmake that mistake is because each swallow is such a total involvement that the\nmemory of it stays with him. He doesn’t have to keep getting reinforcements of\nnew food because he knows fully what the experience was. The stereotype that\ngourmets are overweight is just not true. Most of the great gourmets of the\nworld are either of normal weight or are underweight.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, as you go about your day, think about that marvelous piece of machinery you\u2019re inhabiting, and all that it has allowed, and continues to allow, you to do. Aside from attaining and maintaining a healthy body weight, following Leshan\u2019s two guidelines will improve your health and sense of well-being, increase your vitality, and enhance your productivity. Moreover, by consuming a healthy diet in a healthy manner, you\u2019ll be letting yourself know that you\u2019re someone who\u2019s worth taking care of. And if you\u2019re someone who\u2019s worth taking care of, doesn\u2019t eating a healthy diet in a healthy manner just make sense?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In his book Meditating to Attain a Healthy Body Weight, author Lawrence Leshan offers up two guidelines for attaining\u2014and, I would add, maintaining\u2014a healthy body weight. While the first of these two guidelines focuses on what\u2014or, more precisely, what not\u2014to eat, the second of these guidelines focuses on how to eat. While opinions vary on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-attending-to-our-bodies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lindabolle.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lindabolle.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lindabolle.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lindabolle.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lindabolle.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lindabolle.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":528,"href":"https:\/\/lindabolle.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122\/revisions\/528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lindabolle.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lindabolle.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lindabolle.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}