How To Mindfully Enjoy Sweets
| Part of a balanced relationship with food is to be able to enjoy the foods that you would like to, without feeling out of control or guilty when you do. |
- Start with eating balanced foundational five meals – When you’re nourished, your blood sugar levels are managed so you won’t experience extreme spikes or drops that may make you feel compelled to eat more of those sugary sweets, than you truly want.
- Ask yourself which sweets you really enjoy – When eating mindfully, you’re able to choose the sweets that truly sound delicious to you and say no to the others, not because you “should” but because they aren’t really enjoyable to you.
- Try plating the sweets you eat – Plating your food can help you better pause and reflect on what sweet you’d truly like to enjoy, rather than mindlessly grabbing a chocolate from the stash as you walk by.
- Be present so you can fully enjoy the sweets you eat – Try to minimise distractions – like the TV, phone, work – by sitting at the table so you can focus on tasting each bite and appreciating the flavours, textures, and smells of the food.
- Remove the mentality that sweets are “bad” – If you label sweets as “bad” or “off limits”, you’ll have a stronger desire to eat more sweets than simply honouring that sometimes you’ll eat sweets because they’re enjoyable.
Do you want to learn how to be more balanced and mindfully eat sweets?
Inside the RTH programs, we teach our members how to build their own, unique, positive relationships with food.
