POST 30

Today I've been thinking about how I, and many other people, eat for taste not hunger.

It makes sense to me, that I have such a hard time only eating enough food to feel full, when the food I'm eating tastes so darn good!

Why eat a bowl of salt and vinegar chips, when I can eat an entire bag?

Mouth ulcers...thats why...my bodies way of subtly informing me that I've eaten enough for one day.

Funny how my body tells me when I've had enough, whether it be hives from eating handfulls of almonds even though their something I'm allergic to. Or jelly-belly sickness in Mexico from eating a jello I bought off a boy on an 18 hour busride...some things don't agree with me...and my body knows!

So why is it so darn tough to listen to this body of mine, when she tells me to stop eating when I am full? Or to not eat something in the first place when I know it makes me feel crappy...icecream, I'm talking to you here...

I think part of the problem is that food tastes so darn yummy!  The other day, I felt full, but I kept eating a yummy breaky I threw together.  I asked myself why I still wanted to eat, and I answered,"because it tastes so good!"

Wrong answer!  If i'm eating when I'm full because something tastes good, I am not honouring my body.  But when food tastes this good, its hard to put my body first!  I want to put my taste buds first! I want yumminess and sweetness, and saltiness and- can't stop I'm eating fabulousness...Why eat half a bag of chips when I can eat the whole darn bag?

Mouth ulcers...that's why...my bodies way of telling me I've had enough for one day.

So todays post is in recognition that sometimes a lesson learned may be a long time coming...and old habits die hard, especially while there are still chocolates and chips on a shelf at a grocery store.

Here's to learning to how to eat for hunger, not taste.  Wish me luck! So far I need it!