Simple Eating Guidelines

Geneen Roth's Eating Guidelines

Geneen Roth, author of Women, Food, and God, explains the seven eating guidelines that will help you listen to your body and change your relationship with food.

Here are her guidelines with my thoughts:

1. Eat When You're Hungry - not when you're sad, mad, or glad, etc.

2. Eat Sitting Down in a Calm Environment - the car doesn't count!

3. Eat Without Distractions - no tv, radio, ipod, computer, etc.

4. Eat What Your Body Wants - listen to your body for what it needs.

5. Eat Til You're Satisfied - not to the point where you can't breathe!

6. Eat With The Intention of Being in Full View of Other People - imagine what people would think or say if they saw what you're eating.

7. Eat with the Enjoyment, Gusto, and Pleasure - make food your friend and not enemy.

Check out her clip from the Oprah show here!