AYURVEDA PERSPECTIVE ON EATING WITHOUT REALIZING IT

Eating happens. Food calms you down when you feel overwhelmed, stressed, or hazed, which can create an almost instinctive impulse to reach for a snack, even when you're calm, when life and your diet are going swimmingly well for you.

Two elements, when combined, lead to the perfect storm of unconscious eating. One, food must be within reach or easy to get. Two, you must be distracted, pre-occupied, or half-awake. Watching TV, your hand invisibly dips into the popcorn bowl. The sandwich you don't remember eating at the stoplight on the way to a meeting: what did it taste like? The piece of cake you ate, semi-slumbering, in the middle of night.

Whenever food is within easy reach, as soon as you're distracted or not paying attention, you'll find your hand snatching a few bites. Food is too tempting, especially if it is sweet or delicious. Exhaustion, emotions, eating while half asleep in the middle of the night, and many other factors also lower your resistance to eating, to the point where you eat only semi-conscious of what you are doing.

Yet, eating without realizing it can make you suffer from eating foods you don't really want, or larger portions. Ayurveda suggests that removing distractions and paying full attention while eating is the best weight loss program.

If you struggle with unconscious, mindless eating, keep snack food in hard to get places, such as a place in the cupboard that requires a stool to reach. If you find yourself standing around the kitchen or in front of the fridge, just sitting down somewhere away from food can draw you out of the moment and brings awareness to the unconscious impulse.

Establish eating habits before they get out of control. A good technique might be to make yourself sit down whenever you start to eat something. You might also try taking a few deep breaths, drinking a glass of water, making a cup of tea, going for a walk, or calling a friend. Experiment and find a method of reawakening awareness that works well for you.

It is important to recognize that eating without realizing it is a form of emotional eating , although it may not be immediately apparent. Any maladaptive relationship with food that seems emotionally or unconsciously motivated is worth your attention and exploration. Discovering why you tend to eat without realizing it can lead to profound personal insights and increased self knowledge of your emotions and general well-being.

Augment your diet with these specially chosen ingredients below which may be useful for 'Eating without realizing it'. Individual results vary depending the cause of your imbalance and by constitution. Please research the ingredients below to find which are most helpful for you, and check with your doctor before making any changes to your health and wellness routine. Please check with your medical doctor before making any changes to your health & wellness routine, and for the proper use of these products.

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DISCLAIMER: The pathogenesis of each person's condition is unique, and so the diet must be fit to the individual and the unique root causes of the condition in your body. The information on this page is for educational purposes only and should not be used to treat a medical condition. It is not a substitute for medical care. Please check with your doctor before making any changes to your health and wellness routine.

Everything you eat has an effect on your body, which Ayurveda categorizes in a simple and easy way, using biocharacteristics (gunas). Biocharacteristics are qualities (like cold and hot) that describe the effect a food or herb has on your body. Cooling foods like cucumber, decrease metabolism. Heating foods like chili pepper, stimulate your body and increase metabolism. For 'Eating without realizing it', you should select foods with the following biocharacteristics. Individual results will vary, based on your body type and the root cause of your imbalance.

Digestion:

Appetite Suppressant

APPETITE-SUPPRESSANT

Suppresses hunger without causing weight gain.

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Mind, Stress & Sleep:

Nervine

NERVINE

Balances the nervous system. They can help with stress, memory, early alzheimer's, and even chronic pain. Often they are aromatic in nature.

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Sedative

SEDATIVE

Sedative herbs create a sense of calm in the mind and body by specifically calming or quieting the nervous system. Excellent for anxiety, stress and chronic pain.

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EATING WITHOUT REALIZING IT IS IN STAGE OF DISEASE 0 - POTENTIAL CAUSE

Potential causes increase and disturb your imbalanced doshas and biocharacteristics, causing them to accumulate and spiral out of control. For example, if you're overheated and eat a chili pepper, heat may become excessive and cause disease. As a dosha or biocharacteristic accumulates in your body according to your dietary and lifestyle habits, it is more and more likely to cause disease. You can reduce an imbalanced dosha or biocharacteristic in two ways, by removing, or lessening the frequency of aggravating causes from your diet and lifestyle, as well as by favoring balancing diet and lifestyle practices. For example, try eating something as cool as a cucumber when you're overheated, instead of a chili pepper. (See all disease stages on JB)

GET MY FREE AYURVEDA BODY MAP 'Eating without realizing it' is likely to aggravate the following doshas and biocharacteristics. If you have a systemic imbalance of one of these doshas or biocharacteristics, Ayurveda would generally recommend removing, substitute or lessen the frequency of 'Eating without realizing it'.

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The following symptoms & habits may be related to 'Eating without realizing it'. See your quiz results for a computerized assessment of your body type. Please click on the symptoms below to learn more about them. On average the biocharacteristics of people reporting Eating without realizing it were more aggravated than 58% of other symptoms. From the 4,049 people who reported Eating without realizing it average deviation in biocharacteristic levels were the following:

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