I only subscribe to one magazine at the moment - Psychologies! It is utterly brilliant and provides me with food for thought rather than simply telling me my arse is too big and if only, I ate nuts for a week as 'random interchangeable actress' did then I would be thin and successful.
It contains useful articles as well as a section on health, beauty and food. One of the articles which struck me most was written by David Servan-Schreiber (who incidentally passed on last year having fought cancer for 20 years).
He wrote that practising slow breathing can help you lose weight and balance your life. Essentially, start by taking a few three-minute breathing breaks a day when you slow your breathing to around six deep breaths a minute (easy to measure on a kitchen timer).
After a few weeks, during one of these periods, focus on a painful memory from your day to day life that had triggered negative feelings. Apparently by doing this, you can help to negate the memory by cleansing it and calming your mind around it.
This helps with weight-loss as you are able to deal with negative emotions in different way to comfort eating. Makes sense and at the very least, having a couple of quiet moments of contemplation each day can't be bad.
L x
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