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  11 April, 2008
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Inside Today's Issue

Bullet itemA few words from Janet - Spring-ing into action
Bullet itemDiary dates - Events/products for 2008
Bullet itemClient's challenge - Dealing with emotional eating
Bullet itemJanet recommends - anxiety toolkit
Bullet itemSpring cleaning work - fresh organic food at home

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A few words from Janet - Spring-ing into action

Picture of Janet Gomez Dear friends,

First of all a big welcome to all new subscribers to Nutri-Jyoti News. Thank you for joining us. And once again, thank you to those who filled in my quick survey. I'll be sharing the results in the next issue of NN so if you want to have your say in the future development of Nutri-Jyoti, you still have one more week .

Can you feel the energy of Spring bringing with it fresh ideas and activities? I can. April will see me giving my first yoga classes for children (something I've dreamed of for some time and mentioned in January). I'll also be joining the team at the complementary health centre “Au bonheur de vivre”. Once there I'll be integrating, the Physiospect, exciting energy analysis and treatment apparatus into my consultations.

Now the warmer days are approaching (even if it did snow in Geneva this week!), we start thinking about summer holidays, swimming, being by the beach etc. It's also the point at which many of us start thinking about our body shape. Most of us have tried out a diet at some point in our lives. A few may have had more serious dieting experiences.

This issue's client's challenge comes from NN subscriber, Sian Snow from Founex, (thank you, Sian ) who contacted me with the following question “can a recovering anorexic / bulimic ever hope to be able to following your healthy eating rules?”. Are any of you following the online classes with Eckhart Tolle, author of “A New Earth” and Oprah Winfrey, talk show host? If so, you may have heard some comments made in the 3rd class recently, which I feel are pertinent to this issue's client's challenge. Read on to find out more.

Enjoy!

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Janet Gomez, ANA, Dip NN MBANT
Nutritional consultant
 

Diary dates - Events/products for 2008

Highlights in 2008 include

For further details check out the schedule for 2008.

Client's challenge - Dealing with emotional eating

Emotions and attitude affect how we eat. For example, some of us may feel anxious or worry and lose our appetites. For others, these emotions may have the opposite effect. We may also use food to calm the anxiety, which can result in an increase in weight.

Recently a subscriber contacted me with the following question “can a recovering anorexic / bulimic ever hope to be able to following your healthy eating rules?”.

The area of emotional eating touches most/if not all of us at some point in our lives at different levels. Anorexia and bulimia are specific disorders that require individual professional attention and support. With the right guidance there is always hope. However, whether or not the individual follows the guidelines (not “rules”) offered ultimately depends on whether the particular individual is open to receive this information. Relevant information, articles, workshops and consultations are "tools" to achieving vitality. The client can be shown what to do and given follow-up support. But they also need to be ready to take responsibility for their well-being.

The author and spiritual teacher, Eckhart Tolle made the following pertinent comments about our approach to eating in one of his online classes with Oprah Winfrey.

ECKHART TOLLE (AUTHOR, “A NEW EARTH”): : To make a meditation out of it and eat them consciously without having a secondary entity in your head that says you shouldn't be eating them. Eat them fully and consciously and at the same time feel how your body feels while you eat them and after you've eaten them. Then you bring some presence into it and you may realize in some cases that the body doesn't actually want to eat them. It was the mind that wanted to eat […].

The discussion continued to provide advice for those of us who consider certain foods as bad.

OPRAH WINFREY (HOST): What [Eckhart is] saying is stop resisting. Actually after reading this book [A New Earth], I've been trying this lately. Exactly what you said. And this is what you'll find, if you stop resisting it, because the French fries are not bad. It's the thought in your head that has told you that the French fries are bad. And if you do what he is recommending, if you sit and you consciously make it a meditation, what you will find is you won't eat, you know, two bags of French fries unconsciously, that you will enjoy every single French fry, and […] you stop when it's no longer pleasurable, you know. It's no longer pleasurable after three or four or five. By the time you've eaten a whole bag of them, you don't even taste it anymore. So he's saying make it a meditation, be with it, feel it, sense it, allow your whole body to be with it, feel it, sense it. And when you're done with the pleasure of it, let it go.

[…]

‘Cause you don't become overweight or even drunk or intoxicated as long as you are acting consciously. It's when you become unconscious that you eat too much, unconscious that you drink too much. Unconscious is when you become obsessively indulgent.

My challenge to you: Decide to be aware and to eat consciously (tip: chewing slowing helps).

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Janet recommends - Tackle your anxiety with this toolkit

Is anxiety an emotion that is affecting how you nourish yourself?
How about some tools to claim your life back from anxiety?
My colleague, Karen Field, is offering a special subscriber price on her Complete Anxiety Management Toolkit to all NN subscribers. Grab your kit now ...

Spring cleaning work - fresh organic produce ... at home

No, I haven't started my cooking service again but this new service is just as exciting. It's an on-line organic supplier of local fresh produce delivered to your doorstep when you get home from work. Check it out!

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