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Happiness and emotional well-being are overlooked in many diets, but they have so much to do with curbing your appetite, inspiring you to choose healthier foods, and long-term change. Without happiness or satisfaction, weight loss is a daunting, laborious, often impossible endeavor. To find out how to infuse a diet with the H-factor of happpiness, I got in touch with renowned macrobiotic counselor, author, and speaker, Denny Waxman for tricks to change your body and your life.
DENNY WAXMAN'S STEPS FOR A HAPPY DIET...
Play
more, workout less.
Children do not want to eat when they are playing. They want to eat when they
are bored or forced to do things they do not want to do. The principles are the
same for adults. Satisfying activities enhance your appetite for healthy foods
and help you feel satisfied with less. The wrong activities make you want to
reward yourself with rich foods and unhealthy sweets.
Have
a serving of vegetable soup everyday.
Soup helps condition your digestive system and gets it ready for the meal. Soup
also makes you feel more satisfied and naturally helps you eat less.
Plan your meals around grains, vegetables, and other high fiber foods.
Make your metabolism active to maintain your proper weight without effort.
Metabolism is your ability to digest and absorb the nutrition from your food and then eliminate the excess efficiently. There are two ways to activate your metabolism. The first is to plan
your meals around grains, vegetables, and other high fiber foods. This
combination makes you feel the most satisfied without feeling that you
need to restrict the amount of food you eat. The second way to activate your metabolism is to...
Eat
at regular times without skipping meals.
Eating between meals has a stagnating effect. The ideal starting
times for stimulating your metabolism are between 5:00 & 8:30 am for breakfast, 11:00 am & 1:00 pm for
lunch, and 5:00 & 7:00 pm for dinner.
Sit
down to eat without reading, watching TV, or working.
Develop a relationship with your food,
and you will feel more satisfied, have better digestion, and eat less. Eating
with family and friends strengthens communication and creates a strong feeling
of connectedness that can also leave you feeling less hungry.
Try
to make your daily foods both satisfying and nourishing.
Try to find healthy foods that satisfy your basic needs,
instead of eliminating the foods you think are causing your problems. Feeling deprived does not lead to
happiness. Restriction in your diet inevitably leads to excess. This is the
reason most diets fail.
Eat
more high-fiber foods.
Grains, vegetables, fruits, soups and other plant-based foods make your
digestive system happy. They pass through your digestive system more easily
than animal and dairy foods, and help keep it clean and healthy.
Walk
outside for at least a half hour daily.
Walking is not exercise, it is a natural activity that
makes your body and mind work better and returns you to a state of harmony and
balance. Life-related activities including cleaning, gardening, and dancing are
the most satisfying and beneficial to your health and weight.
Give
yourself a daily massage.
A daily body rub cleans and renews your skin, making it look
and feel younger in just days or weeks. It also activates your blood,
lymph, and energy circulation to help keep your metabolism active. Fill your sink with just hot water. Dip in a cotton face cloth, wring it out, and rub your skin lightly. Gentle pressure is more effective than a vigorous scrub. Frequently re-dip the cloth and try to get all your body with a back and forth motion.
Stop
eating 3 hours before getting into bed.
Your body wants to clean and repair at night while you are
sleeping. When your stomach is empty, you are much more efficient at this
process because your liver will not be bogged down storing unused
nutrition. This allows it to more easily neutralize
acidity and detoxify your body. You will sleep more deeply and wake feeling more refreshed and happy.
Check out these tips for slimming high-energy eats.
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