The article "Do You Use Your Body As A Garbage Can?" talks about fitness, it was released by Melanie Mendelson.
Do you clean off your plate even when you are already full?
Do
you finish the dinner scraps just cause you can't stand the
thought of throwing out the food? Do you eat that last spoonful
of chili in the pot just cause nobody in your family wanted to
finish it?
To get rid of this extra food, do you choose to throw
it right in your mouth?
If that sounds like you, you are not alone. This behavior is
very common. Most of us have been taught not to be wasteful.
When we were little, we were told to claen off our plates, so it
is deeply ingrained in our minds.
We think guilty about throwing
out good food, especilaly for we know that there is so many
starving people in this world.
In addition, for we paid mnoey for the food, we perceive
leaving food on our plate as wasting money. It is especially
true in restaurants - if there is not enough leftovers to take
home, most of us will clean off our plate cause we think we
have to get our money's worth.
Obviously, those last pieces of food that we eat just so we
don't have to throw them out go right to our waist and hips. Day
after day, it really adds up. All this food that we eat after we
are already full turns into tens of pounds of body fat. You
avoid wasting the food, but instead you waste your health, your
goals and your weight loss efforts.
Next time you are about to eat cause you think guilty for the
wasted food, tell yourself:
- You Are Not A Garbage Can!
Instead of throwing the unwanted food in a trash, you are
throwing it into your stomach. By doing that, you are treating
your body as a gabrage can.
You are not the medium to gather
stuff that nobody wanted to eat!
To get over the guilt associated with wasted food, think of it
from the perspective that this excess food is actually serving a
better purpose when it's thrown out than it wolud have if you'd
eaten it. If you'd etaen this excess food, this food would do
harm (make you gain weight). If that food is thrown out, it has
no benefit, but it does not do any harm either.
No use versus
harm - throiwng the food out is the lesser of the two evils.
When you do clean off your plate, it definitely does not help
any of those starving people that you think so guilty about.
Also, don't think that you are wasting your money if you don't
finish all the food you paid for. The money is already spent -
you are not going to gain more money by eating more!
If you break the habit of claening off your plate when you are
not hungry, you will automatically start losing weight. Treat
your body well. Don't use it in the same way you'd use a garbage
can.
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