Pronounced “hew-guh,” hygge is defined as a quality of coziness that brings a feeling of contentment or well-being. You may have heard about the Danish concept of hygge. But you can also nourish yourself from the outside by optimizing your environment. When you think about nourishment, there’s a good chance you think about nourishing yourself from within. You can find some of my favorite soup recipes in the book, like Ginger-Coconut Soup, Kombu Broth, and Vegan Tom Kha. If you left this plan with no other tips, making a soup every week and eating it for a meal a day would be a huge win. Soups are easy on your gut, and they’re the definition of warm, comforting, and nourishing. Why? Because you can use frozen vegetables and ingredients, which are typically cheaper, and it can all be done in one pot. Soups, broths, and stews are one of the easiest, cheapest, and healthiest ways to nourish yourself. That’s why today is all about nourishment-for the gut and our feelings. Unfortunately, because of busy schedules, budgets, and other challenges, many of us struggle to care for ourselves as well as we’d like. Each and every one of us deserves to be well nourished. We (ideally) first receive nourishment as a selfless act on the part of our parents, and eventually we take responsibility for our own nourishment. Sometimes we get so wrapped up in what’s healthy and what’s not that we forget that food is one of the best ways to show ourselves some love. To give you a better idea of what you’ll do on the plan, here is a sneak peek at a day. The idea that you’re “cheating” when you’re eating is antithetical to what sustainable wellness is. If you choose to veer off, eat what you want, enjoy it, and move on. The plan is about creating harmony between how you feel and what you eat, not beating yourself up or shaming yourself. Do You Have to Follow the Plan 100 Percent? Each day is a fresh, new opportunity to nourish and regulate your gut-feeling connection from the inside out (and outside in). For example, you might be taking steps to optimize your daily melatonin-cortisol cycle (sleep-wake cycle), reflecting on your sugar intake and whether it might be contributing to shameflammation, or experimenting with breathwork to stimulate the vagus nerve. Each day you’ll have an intention to focus on and teachings, challenges, and moments for reflection that address both your gut and your feelings. The 21-Day Gut-Feeling Plan is broken down day by day, instead of week by week like my previous plans. And it’s all about discovering how to love your body enough to nourish it with delicious food medicine. It includes the foods that are the best, most delicious ways for you to serve your gut-feeling system. This plan involves slowing down, getting quiet, and focusing on our gut-feeling connection. There isn’t a strict list of things to eat and not eat, action steps to complete, or activities to avoid. So it’s likely different from other plans you may have done in the past (including the ones found in my previous books, Ketotarian, The Inflammation Spectrum, and Intuitive Fasting). The goal of the 21-day plan in Gut Feelings is to create a healthy gut-feeling connection. I created a strategy to help: the 21-Day Gut-Feeling Plan. In my new book, Gut Feelings, I aim to shed light on the relationship between your physical and emotional health, providing a framework for you to better understand the gut-brain connection and how to nurture it. While I understand as a functional medicine practitioner that sometimes certain ways of eating are necessary to help target underlying health imbalances that contribute to a wide array of diseases and dysfunctions, I also understand that true health isn’t just about what you eat-it’s also about how you feel. With so much focus on what, when, and how to eat, the emotional component of eating tends to get left behind. He’ll be in conversation with Gwyneth and answering your questions live on April 13. His new book, Gut Feelings: Healing the Shame-Fueled Relationship between What You Eat and How You Feel, is out now. Will Cole, IFMCP, DNM, DC, is a functional medicine practitioner and New York Times –bestselling author.
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