Yesterday, I spent the day talking to all sorts of interesting people at a Wellness Fair at Fabri-Kal in Kalamazoo. Lots of people willing to listen to me talk about ditching the diet mentality.
What I heard from a number of them, was how the weekend is especially hard when it comes to paying attention to what they are eating. So, here is something to try this weekend.
On your counter in your kitchen, line up some bowls. As you go through your day (or pick the time you are most prone to snacking) and you grab a handful of snackies, grab the same handful and put it into a bowl. (The key is not to mindlessly eat out of the bowls on the counter -- and keep your kids out of them too). If you pick a different snack next time you walk through the kitchen, it goes in a different bowl. At the end of your day, look at the counter -- it will have the amount of extras you have eaten throughout the course of the day -- this is the amount of food most of us have no real recollection we eat.
How many of these handfuls added value to your life and how many were mindlessly grabbed because the path to the garage leads you right through the kitchen (or maybe it doesn't. Maybe that is the detour you have trained yourself to make anytime you go anywhere in the house).
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