Happy Sunday!
And welcome to today's edition of 'Conscious living with Purnima’.
In today's post I share with you a simple hack to improve the nutritive quality of your meals - asking yourself the right question.
Hope you find it useful.
One of the most dreaded questions in most households is, "what are we having for breakfast or lunch or dinner", isn't it? And as long as one has some answer to that question, everyone is happy 🙂
Typically, the mindset is to have something to fill the stomach and get through the mealtime so one can get on with the day.
Today, I invite you to explore a new approach that will awaken you to your current state of nutrition and steer you towards getting better without trying too hard.
A little bit about the human brain before we get to that.
How asking the right question gets your brain stimulated:
Research in neuroscience has shown that your brain can think of only one idea at a time.
So when a question is posed, the brain is completely focused on finding the answer to that question and can't think of anything else. This is what makes asking the right questions powerful as it allows your brain to focus on what's important and uncover new solutions.
Some questions you can look at asking yourself when you have your meal plate ready, are:
A. How can I improve the nutrient content of this plate? Or
B. How would I rate the nutrient quotient of my plate on a scale of 0-10? Or
C . Is this meal plate going to effectively fuel me for the day ahead or just fill me up?
Answer to these questions will give you a clear idea of where you stand in terms of nutrition and your brain will begin to focus on what can be done to improve the quality of the food you are eating.
The questions I have shared with you are the one's I ask myself and it really helps me up the nutrition quotient of my meals.
Do give this approach a shot. Begin looking at mealtimes as opportunities to nourish, fuel and care for yourself, and let me know if anything changed :)
Leaving you with a quote by Morgan Spurlock which is more of a hard truth.
“Sorry, there´s no magic bullet. You gotta eat healthy and live healthy to be healthy and look healthy. End of story.”
Kudos Puri, coming with innovative topics, each week. Loved it. My humble suggestion here, not otherwise, do not propagate, as Harvard study, maybe an Indian food study, would have helped. As our forefathers, had been following healthy lifestyle, till cereals and other junks took over our platters. We should adopt food, more localised to the environment and the weather. As the saying goes, "Eat like a Roman, when in Rome", not mimick otherwise.