The Meditation Diet: How I Lost 60+ lbs. by Savoring

‘When walking, walk. When eating, eat.’ ~Zen proverb By Leo Babauta Picture me 7 years ago, about 60 lbs. heavier than I am now, with a chubbier face, a growing gut, and an addiction to junk food. I ate pizza, chips, cookies, fried meats and cheeses, French fries, and drank beer and sweet & fatty lattes. I was 32 and headed for diabetes and heart disease, and couldn’t figure out how to change. And yet, a year later I had lost about 20-30 lbs. and ran a marathon. The pounds kept dropping away, year after year, and more importantly, I was eating healthier foods. I now love fresh fruits and veggies, raw nuts and seeds, beans and whole grains that haven’t been ground up, real unprocessed food. How did I do it? I used a really simple method that is not hard to do … and yet most people will be unwilling to do it, even after I explain how simple it is. Here’s the secret: I used eating as a form of meditation. It’s a method that’s thousands of years old (Buddha did it, among others), and yet it is so at odds with our current society that most people won’t even consider it. Slowing down, pausing, really paying attention to the food instead of a screen … it’s a radical thing to do. It works. It’s not even hard. Let’s take a look, first, at what most people do (including the 2005 Leo), and why it adds up to bad health and being overweight. The Standard American Diet Not everyone in the Western ...
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