The digestive process starts with your thoughts and it needs water to support it. Now let’s just talk a little bit about how it goes through the body.
You put something in your mouth and you chew it, then you swallow, it goes down your esophagus, goes into your stomach, there it moves to your intestines and out the bowels. OK that’s simplified, but I want you to get the basic idea that there is a beginning and an end and it’s pretty much a tube that goes through the body.
That is the picture I want you to have in your mind, maybe think of a straw. It has an opening at the top and it has an opening at the bottom, something goes in the top and it comes out the bottom. This brings us to tip number 3.
Our current culture encourages us to eat more often than our bodies can handle . We generally need a minimum of a 12 hour fast each day to completely process what we have consumed that day.
That means if you eat at 8 PM then you won’t eat anything else until after 8 AM the next day that’s reasonable right?
Maybe it is reasonable but I have found it’s not so easy for me to change my habits! I was a middle of the night eater and I struggled to get my body to be content with a twelve hour fast daily.
You want to eat slowly so that you don’t overfill the tube, allowing your mind to catch up with the body. You also want to eat at one sitting and then you want to stop for a few hours to digest completely. Remember to drink your water during the hours you are not eating.
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