Greetings!
How are you?
I hope you had a great week and have something good in store for this cold, wet, rainy, windy Saturday morning! I am off to watch my son play football in the middle of a cold, wet, rainy, windy field but wouldn't miss it for the world!
So how's your week been, good or bad? Slow or quick? Tiring or has it been fun? Or all of these in different ways? And are you focussing on the good things that happened this week or the bad things?
This week's article is called Trick or Treat and is of course due to the time of year, but also to explain about how 'treating' yourself to food when dieting is not usually the best strategy for success!
Before I leave this week I just want to talk about three fish fingers! I went to a friend's on Tuesday for a quick tea and they asked how many fish fingers I wanted and I immediately said three! I then spent a while thinking why did I say three! Why did I not say two or four...and the reason was that, to me, I felt two wasn't enough, and that four was too much but it was an immediate feeling!
So how do you know how much food to have? Eating until you are full is well proven to fail as it takes up to half an hour for your body to shout 'STOP!' by which time you can easily have eaten too much...so what is your mental trigger?...
What do you base your food choices on? If you picture yourself in front of all the items in a supermarket, what do you make your food choices based on? You can literally choose thousands of different foods, from healthy to not so healthy, but what are your reasons for choosing what you did?
The reality is however much we pretend to be logical, clever humans, we are still very much emotional animals and live by our emotions, so most food choices are based on how it makes you feel to have them!
Anyway, what do you fancy for breakfast and why?
Have an amazing Saturday
Mike ;-)
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