Taking notes on here! 1. Observe your food-EVERY ASPECT OF IT! 2. Note where you’re eating 3. Use the hunger scale!! 4. Describe the meal to someone else after you eat it 5. Note your emotions 6. Does the food taste good? Or did you just romanticize the food? 7. Does the taste change? Is the first bite better than the other bites? Be mindful of the progression of your satisfaction with the food 8. Journal about how the food makes you feel (YAY JOURNAL!!!) 9. What could make this even better? Take note of it! 10. View everything as a learning experience. THANK YOU SO MUCH! Cannot wait to try it out!

@melie3054

3 жыл бұрын

Ty for the summary! Lol my connection was lagging for the video so I’m grateful someone outlined the tips

@Eiaesthetic

3 жыл бұрын

God Bless the people who summarize videos in the comments 💕❗️

whenever i feel my diet restricting thoughts coming back, i always watch your videos. they make me feel at ease with myself and remind me to choose compassion instead. you have really created a no judgement zone and i’m so grateful for it. thank you!!!!

I ate mindfully today for the first time ever... it felt so good. I felt in control, anxiety free... actually enjoyed the cookies I was eating! It's only the first time, but damn it gives me hope like crazy :´)

I came across your channel while searching reviews for NOOM. At 65 years young, I’ve been yo-yo dieting for years. I also suffer from severe anxiety. The life events of this past year really triggered my emotional and stress eating. The loss of a brother, my husband’s heart attack ( luckily he is fine now), this pandemic thing, work-related stress-it’s an equation for my mouth to turn into a vacuum cleaner that sucks up ANY food into my container of a belly! And I’ve gained 16 pounds that I so desperately need to lose! The weird thing is? My comment sounded so pathetic but in reality, I’m a pretty happy woman. I just need assistance in the foodxiety arena! Im finding your videos help and so I thank you!

wow this video is SO mind blowing! i have a difficult relationship to my body and food since like two years (dieting, binging, gaining wait) and i really want to break out of this circle and your video just gave me huge hope that i can seriously do it! i really hope that i can change the way i think about food and eat.

@Mia-hu6ik

3 жыл бұрын

I feel totally same, can i cry? It is so hard to break that circle but journaling really works. I still have some bad days but i know that it is gonna be better.

@whisperinmyearputmeinatran2852

3 жыл бұрын

Mia i feel you🥺. as i wrote this comment 11 months ago i can tell you that my relationship with food changed a lot! to the better! I started trying to eat intuitively in june and i haven’t dieted since then ever again, haven’t really binged (i did eat a lot of sweets and stuff and still do, and i sometimes eat bc of emotional reasons but i don’t get into these binges where i can’t stop anymore bc i don’t feel so guilty about eating sweets or similar things anymore. i used to continue eating bc i knew the minute i would stop i would feel bad about eating this stuff). the journey had and has ups and down but all in all my life has gotten so so much better. i gained like three kilos but i don’t really give a f about my weight anymore. i can eat so much now 😂 it’s so crazy. like i remember when i was dieting and ate 100gramms of chocolate on one day my face would look really puffy the next day and i would gain weight bc of it. now it makes no difference. i usually don’t eat a whole chocolate tho but when i feel like it i do it just doesn’t feel good most of the time haha. i have much more space to think about other stuff now. i also realized that i used dieting as a way of coping too and now that i stopped i can find ways to cope that bringe me forward and not two steps back. i still feel like ℹ have mild trauma bc of dieting and fear of food being cut off, so i’m actually pretty sure that when my eating behaviours have normalised completely and i move more again (which i wouldn’t do bc of weightloss i just mean that i don’t move a lot bc of the pandemic) i’m probably even gonna lose some weight. it’s totally okay for me if i don’t, but considering that my body literally be the same as it was when i dieted but my mind will be so much healthier kind of proves to me how ineffective and wrong dieting is. sorry for making this so long, i really want to encourage you to take this journey too, bc it was so helpful for me. good luck!!

I’m totally into using the hunger Scale! I’m still learning to correctly read my bodies cues, but practice, practice, there’s always tomorrow if today doesn’t go according to plan😄

@ColleenChristensen

4 жыл бұрын

Totally takes practice!!! Every time is a chance to learn!!! Xoxoxo

All great tips. I liked "does the taste change." That's amazing and I've noticed it. I've found myself halfway through eating, thinking, "this isn't that great." It reminded me of what I learned in a drug/alc class. The first time you get high it's the most amazing feeling, but a person who uses chases that feeling his/her whole life and never has that same feeling as the first high.

Using a guide for the next meal! I love that instead of beating myself up for eating too much, I can determine what led me there and make adjustments.

I started a weight loss program about two months ago and my nutritionist just talked about mindful eating I'm so happy that I just found your channel I liked and subscribed I'm looking forward to seeing more of your information I'm sharing this with everyone I know

*When you wanna start mindful eating or eating way healthier than before and the first thing that shows when you click on this video is a pizza add :)* 💔

Being able to describe my meal. I've heard you mention that in a couple of videos now and am realizing that I often eat so distractedly that I barely recall exactly how the food tastes. This is part due to being a toddler-mom and I take bites when I can get them, but will revamp those efforts now and be sure to truly enjoy the food I create in order to feel properly satisfied!

I've been watching so many of your videos today. I am hooked! These make a lot of sense and I am gonna try them.

Hi Colleen! I just found your channel and you just gained a new subscriber :) I used to study nutrition but I changed majors about half way through lol I love what you’re preaching about intuitive eating! I was wondering if you could make a video about your journaling process? Maybe give some examples?

Thank you for this video, the most useful one I’ve watched so far

Love this, thank you so much! "Does it taste as good as I imagined" honestly always hits so hard for me, especially for pre-packaged sweets that I would tell myself were "bad". It's never true for my grandma's cooking 😆 but definitely for many many foods I had labeled as "bad" Thank you so much for sharing this ☺💖

I just wanted to tell u that You are one of the coolest persons i've ever met. Thank u sooo much for everything that u sure, it makes My life way better

I need to work on mindful eating and these tips are so helpful!

Very intelligent advice and I have definitely seen tremendous advances in myself with these type of exercises in terms of enjoying not just the meals, but also not thinking about food all the time, and making choices that nourish my body and not just what my mind craves in the moment

This was great. Your energy and enthusiasm is amazing!

I love the idea of noticing the taste change throughout the meal!! Definitely taking note of that next time.

Awesome video and great exercise gonna go with enjoy the food more and already on with how to make it better might aim for a little journaling on the side 💪

thanks for this list, such a great way to get more present with ourselves while eating.

I like the way you deliver the messages!

I like the hunger scale idea, it seems so easy and reasonable to do!

Awesome ❤️🙏🏼

Thanks for the video! Also- where can I buy your awesome t shirts I see in your videos about no food rules... etc. Love them!

This is a super helpful video! 😊

@ColleenChristensen

4 жыл бұрын

So glad! XOXO

This is reminiscent of an exercise I used to do in therapy of observing thoughts

Lov this concept.. thank you

I'm going to use the hunger scale and observing my food! Thank you! 😄❤️🙌

@ColleenChristensen

4 жыл бұрын

Love it!

I’ll try this for a month and update what changes I could observe!

Super helpful!

This is the only way to eat!! There is no other way Eat when hungry. Stop when comfortably full Plus mindfulness PERFECT

I've already lost 12lbs in under two weeks. great vids

Any advice/resources for when your hunger cues and appetite are suppressed because of medication? I’m on Lexapro and I never get physical hunger cues anymore so I have to basically guess when I’m hungry and it’s a bit distressing for me. I’m recovering from restrictive eating and I’m afraid of relapse. I just want to eat intuitively 😭 thank you in advance, and I love your channel ❤️

Journaling was my favorite And of course observing my meal

I LOVE that t shirt!

These were wonderful !!! I love the idea of mindful eating .. but I also hate my weight it’s so hard !

@ColleenChristensen

4 жыл бұрын

I'm so glad!! It's tough but you're tougher!

@lindalabban7183

4 жыл бұрын

I can relate! it's like giving up on fixing myself

Love this thank u so much for the vid 🤍

A few years ago I had an eating disorder and basically got all my calories from sugary iced tea (it was lower in calories than soda 😂) and drinking iced tea is a habit that's stayed throughout my recovery until I started mindful eating and I realized I actually don't really like iced tea. Why am I drinking this sugar water? It's too sweet for me now

Definitely taking with me the tip about checking if the food was really as good as I thought it would be. I think I romanticize it a lot.

I will start mid meal check in on hunger scale plus journaling

Thanks for the tips! I've decided to get back into focusing on intuitive eating instead of tracking macros and calories because tracking is inconvenient at times and honestly after a while it gets really boring and annoying to have to do. It also makes me see food more as a macronutrient instead of the food itself at times (not that I restrict what I eat, but I find myself trying to eat low calorie high volume foods most the time cause I love to eat and so I would try to eat low calorie foods so I could eat more without going over in calories too much, but this has become problematic because I don't listen to my fullness ques and sometimes I would end up on like an 8 or 9 on the fullness scale even if I was in my calorie range for the day, so I need to relearn how to just focus on what my body tells me. I mean I did this as a kid and I was still healthy and had the perfect amount of energy along with a good relationship with food.) I plan on using these tips and I hope I can relearn how to listen to my body's fullness ques!

Hello colleen, unfortunately the link I received in my email for the ultimate guide doesn't work 🙄 could you please help me? Thanks💖

@ColleenChristensen

4 жыл бұрын

Hi! Please send an email and we'll get it to you!

Eating while really paying attention to taste and texture helped me enjoy the experience more

@ColleenChristensen

6 ай бұрын

Absolutely! So happy to hear this was your experience!🙌

when you were starting out your mindful eating journey, did you find it was easier to eat by yourself? I live with my parents and we eat at least one meal together/day. however they like to have the TV on and this distracts me a lot...

Hello Colleen!! Please explain, I’ve heard that if you eat till you start to get a little full it’s then too late because you become too full. Thank you.

@ColleenChristensen

4 жыл бұрын

I haven’t heard this before, but I want to say, if I’m understanding correctly, that I disagree. Is question “too late” for what? Also if we are eating very quickly it’s easy to get to that fullness point very fast and eat last it without realizing. These tips can help!

@stepsfan87

4 жыл бұрын

I think this might be to do with the whole idea that your brain takes longer to recognise when you're full (20 minutes?) And so if you are seeking that feeling whilst eating, you will likely overeat

@sherriemcwaters3195

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you Jennifer. I think that was what I was trying to explain. However I’m not good of doing just that. Thank you again for your in put. ☺️

I need a link for that shirt!

So would you say mindful eating and intuitive eating are the same?

The one that sounded great was the #8-Use your journal. Could you make a video about this specifically? Do you have a specific layout?

@ColleenChristensen

4 жыл бұрын

Really great idea! I'll add it to my list!

Please tell me where I can get that shirt

I wanna cry when she said "eat the cupcake" 🤣

Three years ago my son had a nearly fatal seizure episode at the hospital so he had to be ventilated. Anytime it was night time i would have these delicious oreo pudding parfeit. I think it was 400 calories. I had one each night while we were there. I remember sometime after the hospital i gained about 5 lbs.i truly believed i used that dessert as a way of comfort eating which had led to a bad result.

I always eat mindful in the beginning but after not even half Fall back into not eating mindful. I need some Tips on how to not go off track with it

I want your t-shirt!! So cute...where did you get it? If you don’t mind 😃

@ColleenChristensen

4 жыл бұрын

I think it’s called mind over body apparel!!

How do I trust my body to pick what I actually need? I used to binge 5-6 chocolate bars a day.

i learn about what's i'm feeling when i take my fist bite on my foods and i will "taste it or tryna to desribe how's that's taste, sweet, savory, bitter, or salty and i will enjoy my foods"

@ColleenChristensen

4 жыл бұрын

Love!

How can u help not thinking about food all the time??

Mid-Meal Check In!

@ColleenChristensen

4 жыл бұрын

Love it!

Something that diet culture always made me feel like was that I should be enjoying "healthy" smoothies. On paper it sounds great: nutrients in an easily consumable form, all my fave fruits and veggies and flavours. But what I realised through mindful eating was that... I HATE smoothies. Or at least traditional smoothies. They always leave me feeling bloated, the texture is unpleasant, and after the first sip, I don't really want anymore. So no wonder I could never stick to the smoothie morning routine: I didn't like it! To me, I enjoy sweeter, more milkshake like smoothies. It was something we always used to do with bananas when I was a kid. So now I enjoy them as a sweet, nostalgic taste instead of trying to cram my breakfast into liquid form.

How does one stop bloating from happening?

@ColleenChristensen

4 жыл бұрын

Depends why the bloat is happening! But our bodies bloat normally and it's not always a bad thing, it's a natural response!

After being on a diet, I experienced that I fantasised sweets so much that when I had the real thing, it wasn't as good as I thought and was too sweet. But then, I get used to the taste after a while. After I had appendectomy, I could not eat and found food so good when the first food came. Taste changes with the situation, body condition, climate, and when you are hungry. I wish chocolate didn't taste so good so that I won't get addicted. Or should it stay so good so that I can enjoy it? I don't know. I must be confused after giving too much energy to food.

Where can I find the watermelon version of the hunger scale?

@ColleenChristensen

4 жыл бұрын

I'll put it in the SociEATy!

I don’t think I explained very well. Actually I think if I would have followed you to the end I would have gotten my answer. These are things I should start doing. 😊

@ColleenChristensen

4 жыл бұрын

So glad you got your answer!

When I'm in public I'd rather go to the bathroom so I can really enjoy my snack without distraction 😂 please don't judge me

Hunger scale

I’m going to eat my food with no judgement and stop it with the diet rules that have ruled 47 of my 62 years on this earth.

I feel guilty when I eat period