#1 Slowing down / a summary

This morning I found out that some girls follow me on Facebook (?!), so I thought that I could describe the rules in a more schematic manner, without digressing on personal thoughts, so that whoever wants to refer to them can do it without needing to take a day off.

I return therefore to the first, and most important: Slowing down.

Notice: this rule, like the others, doesn’t need to be applied to a specific diet or servings, but it could be matched with both if it helps give you confidence.

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How to /

1 • With “slowing down” I mean sitting down calmly to eat thinking only about eating. Distractions like television, books, mobile phones ad such must be avoided, so that you can only concentrate on eating, at least at the beginning.

Slow and steady…

Another Monday is almost upon us, and i hope it won’t bring an upward trend. I have no real reasons to suspect such a catastrophic event, but you never know.

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In the meanwhile, I’ve noticed that slowing down influences everything I do.

In my work, for example, I scan my schedule much better: I don’t end up with more than a hundred overlapping tasks – mails, edits, revisions and double checks – and the funny thing is that this way I’m working faster. I stopped fretting over how to finish lots of things in time, and doing them more calmly I do them better and in less time, with no stress and even finding some time for myself. Epic win!

On the master’s side

Slowing down. This is the first fundamental rule I’m following.

What I’ve never had for many years is control over food. I could control myself, decide to open the fridge or not, but it was still just tackling the me that was running towards the fridge, attracted like a moth to the light. What I’m doing is grabbing the reins of the relationship with food.
I don’t want to be the needy doormat that walks the Hunger’s chihuahua, holds her bags while she’s out shopping and chauffeurs her around at a snap of her fingers. Slowing down managed this: getting me back in control.

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