12/01/2015
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OK!
OK! I'm eating 1 damn bite at time, and now you
want me to eat a whole meal of only 1 bite?
Not
quite, but close. This is an exercise in taste, time and temptation.
Try
this at the next big meal function you attend, like Christmas,
Easter, or even the local Chinese buffet. ( one of my old favorites).
Go
around the table and put 1 bite of each food item on your
plate. That's 1 bite, not 1 scoop or
1 slice. Use a teaspoon
if you have to. And spread them out on the plate so it looks kind of
decorative. Let folks think you're a connoisseur. Think about those
$100 a plate meals you see in the movies, with lots of empty plate,
surrounding some interesting blob of food.
Now
when you start eating, as you try and explain to the everyone
questioning your minimal food choices, pop 1 of those bites at
a time in your mouth. Set your fork down and chew slowly. Real
slowly.
Really
focus on whatever you're eating, just like the 1 bite, 1
minute exercise in Day 3.
Stretch
that 1
bite
out as long as you can. Even after you swallow, savor the residual
flavors for a bit, before rinsing it down with some water.
Try
to get some talking done between bites, and spend some time just
looking around the table, watching other folks eat. Try to visualize
how many extra calories they're taking in. How much extra fat and
sugar. Watch how the skinny people eat.
The
challenges is to empty your plate just as slowly as everybody else.
When
you are done with that first plate, don't refill it. Sit back, enjoy
the company, the conversations, and that comfortable un-stuffed
feeling
Now
I'm not saying this is the way you need to eat all the time, it's
just an exercise. You can repeat it any time you like. You can very
the amounts, taking more bites of items you like, and none of less
tasty things. The point as always is to thing about what and how you
eat, over time changing the habits that turned you into a couch
potato.
KRASH
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