Day 5: Eating Small

11/21/2015  
Steps 2760

People have a natural tendency to want to fill space!
If they see a blank page, they want to write or draw or paste something there.
If they have an empty room or garage, they will fill it, usually with junk they don't need. Then spend the ensuing years complaining about too much stuff and at the same time, finding excuses why they need to hang onto every bit of it. Even as they add something else to the pile.

If you think about it, even shelving is more junk, but with that lame excuse that it will help organize the stuff you already have and don't need.

FOOD
So why should it be any different at the dinner table.
You have sitting in front of you and empty plate the size of a hub, plus a salad plate, and maybe even a fruit bowl. Just like the closet, you can't add another thing to, you fill every container with as much as it will hold. Then you down everything in record time, so you can fill the hubcap again. This time with the food you like best. Usually the most fattening things on the table. Then, just like looking into that spare bedroom, that you can hardly open the door to, you let out a loud moan, hold your stomach and complain that you just can't eat another thing without exploding.

Smaller is Better
So here's the plan.
Start by leaving the dinner plates on the shelf, and using those salad or sandwich plates that have been collecting dust all these years.
Even if you pile them full, you won't get as much as the old hubcap.

This will be just another reminder.
That after all is one of the underlying principles of the my Diet 1. Unlike other diets that focus on calorie counting, special foods, famous people, and gimmicks. The gimmick of my Diet 1 is simple, a constant reminder to slowly cut down the amount of junk you are stuffing in the closet, your body.

The good news is this closet, unlike the one down the hall, will slowly get smaller and smaller as time goes by.

An added side effect to all this is a shift in your attitude about other things in your life. As you find yourself shoving less and less into your mouth and that bulge in your waste slowly shrinks, you may find that all those places around your house, stuffed full of things you don't use or need slowly start to empty as the fat in your life slowly slips away.


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