12/09/2026
MINDFUL WEIGHT LOSS!
Mindful eating isn’t about restriction.
It’s about awareness.
It’s about happiness through food choices.
It’s about breaking the cycle of guilt and bingeing.
I want to share a story about a lady I met at a business club a few years ago.
At the time, she was a bit of an expert on Microsoft Word.
She used to show people how to be more productive, especially those in small business.
She was really good at what she did.
She dressed beautifully.
She was a wonderful person.
She was big. Very big.
I used to run into her a lot and always thought how unhealthy she looked.
But it wasn’t my business to say anything.
And my shape was nothing to brag about either.
Then, one day, a few months later, there she was.
The first thing I noticed was that she looked really healthy and happy in the face.
Her body shape had changed.
Not dramatically, but it was noticeable.
“Carol,” I said, “you look truly wonderful.” She smiled and thanked me.
It wasn’t the time to discuss what had happened.
Anyway, I saw her every few months.
Her size consistently decreased.
She got smaller and smaller.
The most important thing was that she looked amazingly healthy.
Then the day came when she visited my house.
It gave me the chance to say again, “You look brilliant.” “How did you achieve that?” I asked.
Her answer was quite amazing.
She wasn’t on a diet at all. She just practised what she called “conscientious eating.”
She could see I was interested.
She said she’d like to eat now so she could show me what conscientious eating was.
She went into my kitchen.
She dug around in the bread bin.
She put a slice in the toaster.
She fetched some marmalade from my cupboard.
When the toast was nice and brown to her satisfaction, she added marmalade.
Not a thin scraping. She put an ample helping on it.
Then came the interesting bit.
She cut it in half.
Then in half again.
And then into quarters.
Now she had sixteen pieces of toast and marmalade on a plate in front of her.
Usually, she said, she wouldn’t have a conversation while eating. Food became more of a private affair.
But on this occasion, she wanted to talk me through it.
She picked up a piece.
A sixteenth piece of toast and marmalade.
She didn’t just pop it into her mouth as I would have done.
No. She bit it in half.
She put the remaining half down onto the plate.
She started chewing.
She chewed for quite a long time.
She didn’t seem to be in a hurry at all.
She picked up the other half.
She went through the same process again.
Apparently, her food tasted better than she’d ever tasted in the past.
This went on for some half hour.
Until she stopped and said, “I’m full!”
Apparently, she’d been eating conscientiously.
She’d been enjoying every little bit of her food.
Every mouthful.
She had time to acknowledge the message our brain sends back to us saying, “We’re full.”
She left three squares on the plate because she’d had enough.
Well, it certainly must have worked. Because she looked marvellous.
And she was losing so much weight.
Apparently, she wasn’t on a diet.
She ate anything she wanted to eat.
But she ate it all the same way.
Conscientiously.
And if she was eating a cooked meal, she would put her knife and fork down in between.
She soon realised her normal‑size plates were just a waste of food.
So she started serving her meals on small plates.
Over the period of 18 months, she lost 7.5 stone.
I’m going to tell you again.
The thing I noticed more than anything else was how happy and healthy she looked.
That was 25 years ago. She stays slim to this day.
She claims she enjoys the food more than she ever has done.
Conscientious eating is a way of losing weight. I’ve seen it happen.
I’ve practised it myself.
Not as the whole diet.
But I eat slower. I eat smaller mouthfuls.
It’s true. I enjoy my food more than ever before.
Here’s something that you might want to try for yourself.
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