"Dinnertime. I'm sitting alone, trying to eat slowly. My Guru is always encouraging us to practice discipline when it comes to eating. She encourages us to eat in moderation and without desperate gulps, to not extinguish the sacred fires of our bodies by dumping too much food into our digestive tracts too fast. When students come to her complaining that they're having trouble meditating, she always asks how their digestion has been lately. It only stands to reason that you'll have trouble gliding lightly into transcendence when your guts are struggling to churn through a sausage calzone, a pound of buffalo wings and half a coconut cream pie."
~Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat Pray Love
I don't meditate but if I did I would be in big trouble with Gilbert's Guru. Over the past few weeks I have reached an ultra-low point with my diet and the foods I have decided to eat. I am definitely "dumping" food down my gullet without any thoughts beyond that present moment. And let me tell you, I feel horrible. Sluggish. Heavy. Frustrated. Depressed. It's amazing the gamut of emotions tied to the foods we eat!
Today I begin {again!} to take charge of my eating and to reign in my appetite. It takes so much work but the results are worth their weight in gold!
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I think we've all been there! Good luck getting back on the right track :)
I tried reading "Eat, Pray, Love" a few years ago but just couldn't stay with it. Maybe it just wasn't the right time for me...I may have to give it another chance.
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