Eat Like a Queen, King & Pauper

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Hello my dear ones,

Wow, many of you downloaded the CCF Tea recipe from last week's newsletter- so easy, simple and cost effective to help stoke a sluggish digestive fire. Please drop me an email and tell me how the tea is working for you! More tea is not necessarily better for you so please stick to the daily amount to drink, and cut back when you've had enough. Reach out with any questions :)

In keeping with this month's theme:

"One small change, a one degree of shift, over the course of your lifetime can yield great health benefits" ...

...here is a simple, free and easy (?) change for you to consider when thinking about HOW to eat or really HOW MUCH to eat at meals. I didn't come up with this idea, it's what my ancient Ayurvedic textbooks tell me AND more importantly it's how your grandparents, great-grandparents, and so on ate...AND most of humankind ate this way until the dawn of industrialization in the early 1900s.

Get ready...try embrace this radical idea that hopefully won't seem so crazy by the end, I promise.

Eat Like a Queen, King and Pauper.

Eat Like a Queen at Breakfast.

Most of us may not take the time to sit down, undistracted, and eat a warm, moist, cooked, and nutritious breakfast...If you do...you are my HERO! After an overnight fast (yes, we already practice intermittent fasting by not eating from dinner time until we "break the fast" at breakfast)...our body needs a nutritious, dense, filling meal so we can fuel the body for the day...so sit down like the Queen that you are and eat enough to satisfy yourself until Lunch with no snacking in between. Radical, I know, given all the marketing messages around SNACKING in our American culture. If you need to snack before Lunch time (4-5hrs after Breakfast), you simply didn't eat enough to keep yourself fueled throughout the morning.

Eat Like a King at Lunch.

The same theory applies here. How many of you CRASH a few hours after Lunch, by 3pm or 4pm I would guess and are STARVING. It's either going to be caffeine or sugar or both that your body wants for a boost of energy, am I right? When our country industrialized and we all got off our farms, moved to cities, etc., the luxurious, long lunches with great quantities and quality of foods disappeared. There was little to no time allowed for the factory worker or office employee to take time out to eat. Fast forward a hundred years and today the average person either multitasks while eating their lunch or grab-n-goes something quick so the hunger pangs go away. Humans are diurnal animals meaning we are active during the day hours (vs nocturnal) and NEED calories during waking hours to help us achieve the tasks of the day. If your energy is low during the afternoon...eat more at Lunch and see how you feel then!

Eat Like a Pauper at Supper.

(derived from the word "Supplemental")

We just don't need a large meal in the evening hours since we are diurnal/daytime creatures, we needed those calories during the day. A light meal at Dinner like soups/stews that are warm, nourishing, and EASY to digest is just right! If you are having trouble sleeping, check in with the size of the meal you are eating before bedtime and try reducing it. The body either wants to sleep or digest food, it can't do both at the same time.

The surge of today's digestive issues points to not only the poorer quality of our foods (processed, ultra-processed, etc.) but also the HOW we are eating in this "modern" world. Our culture focuses so much on the WHAT to eat, I hope you can see from this newsletter that the HOW MUCH and WHEN we eat is most important. If you want more tips on the HOW to eat you can download my Mindful Eating Tip sheet below. I'm also available for 1:1 consults on all things digestion, nutrition or eating disorders, etc...just reach out today...I can help :)

Just let the idea of this "small" (but significant) change sink in...and I'm always here to answer any questions, reach out and let me know your thoughts!

Here's to better Winter digestion for all! Love, Ginger

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