Eating everything on your plate
I was out to dinner recently and started a conversation about how I was raised to eat EVERYTHING on my plate.
What is interesting is that even though I am aware of the fact that I have to let go of the ‘eat everything on your plate’….I still do. It’s actually a struggle for me not to eat everything on my plate…I feel guilty, unaccomplished, rude, not normal, if everything isn’t gone.
Until that conversation, I hadn’t really verbally processed it with someone..it was always in the back of my mind. How can people leave 1/2 a portion of something and not eat it? Can you really stop when you’re full?
So why is it that I do this? Why is it that other people struggle with this as well?
1. Being raised, indoctrinated to eat everything
2. As a backlash to the stressful and many times unsatisfying lives that many of us become consumed in…food becomes a pleasure trigger…a momentary drug.
3. Could it really be a hormone problem? Is that possible? Or is that just an excuse to excuse poor eating habits, unhappy lives, and bad food consumption by many poeple?
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From “Stop when full? You must be French” http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23449358/
Based upon a study of people in Paris and Chicago, this is what researchers discovered:
“The Parisians said they knew they were through when they no longer felt hungry or when the food no longer tasted good to them. Their answers suggested that they’re influenced by internal cues — whether they liked the taste of the food or whether they wanted to leave room for a later dessert — to tell them dinner’s over.
In Chicago, it was a different ball game. The 145 Americans relied on external cues of satiety. They said they knew they were through eating when they cleaned their plate, when everyone else at the table was finished or when the TV show they were watching was over.”
How do you overcome this?
“Use a smaller plate and put everything on your plate before you eat. Don’t go back for seconds. And don’t eat while you watch TV.”
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