{"id":3205,"date":"2011-10-12T15:08:37","date_gmt":"2011-10-12T23:08:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fitchicks.ca\/blog\/?p=3205"},"modified":"2011-10-12T15:08:37","modified_gmt":"2011-10-12T23:08:37","slug":"wellness-wednesday-japanese-eating-principles-meets-thanksgiving-dinner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.fitchicks.ca\/blog\/2011\/10\/wellness-wednesday-japanese-eating-principles-meets-thanksgiving-dinner\/","title":{"rendered":"Wellness Wednesday – Japanese Eating Principles meets Thanksgiving Dinner"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hey Chicks,<\/p>\n

Happy Wednesday!\u00a0<\/p>\n

It is now 2 days post Thanksgiving and I feel like I am finally emerging from my turkey coma!\u00a0 As my parents are divorced, I get a double dosage of dinner so I usually tend to\u00a0throw all my healthy eating principles out of the window,\u00a0eat everything in sight\u00a0for\u00a02 nights in a row (and get sent home with tons of leftovers!) then sit around and feeling guilty all week for eating too much.\u00a0 This year, I decided in advance I wasn’t going to have the “all or nothing” mentality.\u00a0 Not only did I throw in a 18km hike through Gatineau Park <\/a>(I needed a buffer in case I wanted extra cake:) but I\u00a0tried a new approach to eating my Thanksgiving dinner by following a Japanese eating principle<\/a> my sister told me about called hara hachi bu. Here is the definition:\u00a0<\/p>\n

hara hachi bu \u00a0<\/strong>– \u201ceat until 80 percent full only\u201d. Stopping at 80 percent capacity gives the stomach’s stretch receptors time to catch up since the stomach takes about 20 minutes to tell the body how full it really is.<\/p>\n

Well, I think I probably ate until approximately\u00a095% full on the second night but being aware of this principle while eating made me really focus on what my body\u00a0was feeling during the meal.\u00a0 Alot of times I find that I dont even realize how much I have eaten and the next thing I know I feel like I am stuffed to the gills (this chick can eat serious quantities of everything including brussel sprouts… I love them!).\u00a0Over time (And over eating processed foods!) a lot of us have lost how to read our body’s natural signals to let us know when we are full, hungry, thirsty, etc.\u00a0It was very interesting to\u00a0try to\u00a0reconnect what I was feeling while\u00a0I ate.\u00a0 Try it, chicks and let me know how you feel!<\/p>\n

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Striking a pose in Gatineau Park<\/p><\/div>\n

\u00a0<\/p>\n

Now I am off to do a bootcamp <\/a>class to sweat up a storm…I did have the extra cake \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

Laura xo<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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