We have been discussing eating as part of our lifestyle. Our eating habits, effects how well we feel, by how well in synchrony our biochemical processes work. Keeping your body in harmony starts with helping your body to help you, by aiding digestion. Practicing Eating Habit Intelligence - see first article- can aid our digestion. So far you have been practicing chewing for better digestion; and balancing the six tastes for satiety. Did you notice the difference in how you feel after your meals? "…I felt better in the beginning but I can't pay attention to eating as much as I need."

The motivation is fading. What do we do from here? Some of you human beings may start to shift back to old habits. Relax! This is normal process in changing a routine. You have been doing great and you did not mess up anything. You are learning. The most important thing is that you catch yourself sailing too far from what you should be doing. You just took the next step! Congratulations!!! Let us look at what are the next steps to avoid repeating this New Year's resolution next year and keep you sticking with it.

The secret lies in the three secret words. First is Consistency, second is Consistency, and the third is Consistency! "But how?" By keeping your head still relaxed. Taking your mind off eating by further shifting the "diet" paradigm. You have a whole list of new things of Intelligent Eating Habits that you can try practicing to change your lifestyle. They are a lot more exciting than the old habits which did not seem to work. The little voice in your head may still be there "I must do this to lose weight". It is a good sign! It is another opportunity to notice how you felt when that little voice talked to you. Remember how the pure thought of that sentence put a knot in your stomach and made you feel nervous. You just experienced the stress response when your body went into an alarm phase and digestion stopped.

Changing a habit takes time. It takes about 9 months of practice to have a chance to make that changed habit permanent. It takes about two years of practice for that new habit to become an automatic action. This way those bad extra "bad boy" pounds will stay away and you don't have to make the same New Year's resolution next year. I am sorry to break the bad news to you… The good news: if you understand the process of changing habit, you have a higher chance to succeed. The first few weeks you had full control over doing the whole "diet" right, then life and old habits caught up with you. This is the time you catch yourself doing other things in you head than eating. This happens about two months down the road from the point you made your New Year's resolution.

Lets us look at the rest of the list of Intelligent Eating Habits. Besides chewing, the next step would be taking time to out from our schedule to sit down for our meal. Little voice again: "Great! I sit down no problem. At least I can catch the news on the TV or read."… Wait a minute! Didn't we just talk about doing one thing at a time? "AHHHH, of course!" You just caught yourself again to get back on track. Catching and re-steering yourself into the right direction is the way how theory transforms into practice.