The National Geographic Diet
When was the last time you saw an animal in the wild that was obese? It doesn’t happen. Most wild animals have the eating for hunger and fuel thing down. Animals don’t get fat and obese until they become domesticated. How fat is your Dog? Do you own a “Fat Cat”?
A little over a year ago I wrote an article here about Intuitive Eating. There was a study done at BYU that found that eating intuitively could be more effective at lowering cholesterol levels, Body Mass Indexes and reducing the risks of cardiovascular diseases than many more typical diet plans.
The idea to eat when you are hungry and stop when you are full seems so much more natural. But how many of us are in tune with our bodies that we can really know when to eat, when to stop? It’s not that we don’t have the capability, but in our modern times of junk foods, abundance of foods, fast foods, food, food everywhere many of us have lost touch with the part of ourselves that is hungry. We often eat out of frustration, anxiety, loneliness, boredom. We no longer just eat because we are hungry and our bodies need fuel. Any old excuse to overindulge and eat will do.
Recently I came across another blog talking about this very thing. Craig Harper has come up with a wonderful plan about Intuitive eating that he calls The National Geographic Diet. The idea is to eat when you are hungry and your body needs fuel and to NOT eat for any other reason.
He is planning on doing a 28 day experiment and many other people have joined him. You can start anytime between now and January 1, 2007 and he will publish the results on his blog at the end of January. It will be interesting to hear about the results people get.
I may join him myself. I just have to figure out if I can hear the call of my own body over the din of the chocolate chip cookies!
