At one o'clock last night, I woke up-- to my complete surprise-- at the kitchen table. I found an open Reeses wrapper, a humus container, multigrain chips, and chocolate chip cookies sitting there before me... I languidly burped up a disgusting combination of garlic and chocolate preservatives, and realized what had happened: I had gotten up from bed, gone downstairs, completely unconscious, and raided the pantry. I was a machine. So that explains why diets never seem to work for me!
I learned something important from that: It is so important that we are conscious of what we are eating. So often I find myself sleep eating during the day, just mindlessly munching on chocolate or potato chips. The best way to avoid that is to realize when you are actually hungry and when you just want something to do. If you decide you're not actually hungry, then drink some water and find something else to do. This isn't replacing anything with something else, it is simply an alternate way of thinking, a more focus awareness. Being conscious of yourself might be hard at first, but sooner or later determining whether you're actually hungry will become very easy, and you will feel so much better for it.
I learned something important from that: It is so important that we are conscious of what we are eating. So often I find myself sleep eating during the day, just mindlessly munching on chocolate or potato chips. The best way to avoid that is to realize when you are actually hungry and when you just want something to do. If you decide you're not actually hungry, then drink some water and find something else to do. This isn't replacing anything with something else, it is simply an alternate way of thinking, a more focus awareness. Being conscious of yourself might be hard at first, but sooner or later determining whether you're actually hungry will become very easy, and you will feel so much better for it.
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