| 1. Food should not be wastedWe have learnt | | | | simply move around more during the course of |
| not to leave food even though we don't really | | | | the day even if they don't take regular |
| want it. If we cooked it, bought it, served | | | | exercise. They're forever on the go. They're |
| it up on a plate or ordered it in a | | | | up and down more. And they fidget more. |
| restaurant it has to be eaten because "it's a | | | | Studies have shown that they use up more |
| sin to throw away good food". So we use our | | | | calories than others in that way.If you eat |
| bodies as a kind of human waste disposal unit | | | | and move like your slim friends you will have |
| and pile unwanted pounds onto our hips.We | | | | little to envy.4. Healthy food doesn't make |
| learnt to clean our plates when we were kids, | | | | you fatYou can get fat eating anything - |
| mostly from well-meaning parents who wanted | | | | although, granted, it would be difficult to |
| to make sure we got enough nourishment and | | | | overeat lettuce. But some natural foods are |
| tried to make us feel guilty about all the | | | | high in calories - in particular nuts and |
| starving people in the world. We learnt to | | | | seeds - so you can easily take in too many |
| eat stuff we didn't really want or need to | | | | calories with these. And fruit juices, |
| please our parents and sometimes we got more | | | | smoothies and shakes can really pile on the |
| food as a reward ("Eat your dinner or you | | | | pounds. Too many complex carbohydrates, whole |
| won't get dessert").Now you're an adult you | | | | grain though they are, will go straight to |
| can take a different approach. Buy less, cook | | | | your hips too. Healthy foods are great but |
| less, serve up less and order less but if | | | | they still have to be eaten in |
| it's still more food than you need, throw it | | | | moderation.Having said that, true healthy |
| out rather than down your throat. It's a | | | | natural real foods are not generally the real |
| greater waste to over feed your body than it | | | | problem. The main culprit here are those |
| is to throw out excess food.2. Food equals | | | | foods which are branded as healthy by food |
| loveWe learn from birth to link love and | | | | manufacturers - the foods that are "full of |
| comfort from our mother with being fed and | | | | goodness" or low in fat or carbs or whatever. |
| that feeling is reinforced throughout | | | | They offer so-called healthy options for |
| childhood. We equate food with being cared | | | | cookies, cakes and pies that you could do |
| for. So it's often the first thing we turn to | | | | well without eating. They just tempt you to |
| when we want to experience those feelings of | | | | eat more because you think they are healthy |
| love and comfort again.But food is not love. | | | | or low in calories. Check the labels and |
| A double-chocolate chip cookie or plateful of | | | | give them a miss.5. Only unhealthy food |
| fries will never love you back. Only people | | | | tastes goodYou may have spent years |
| can do that.If you need love, you need | | | | assaulting your taste-buds with fat and sugar |
| contact with other living breathing humans. | | | | confectionary, salty snacks and fried foods |
| Call up a friend and talk, don't eat.3. Slim | | | | and that is what they have learnt to know and |
| people can eat as much food as they likeThis | | | | love. But actually many foods that you eat |
| one is actually true but not in the way we | | | | have sugar and salt added to give them appeal |
| often believe it. Slim people eat as much as | | | | they wouldn't otherwise have. Once you start |
| they like but they don't live for food. They | | | | tasting quality natural foods and delicious |
| like to eat as much as they need and they do. | | | | healthy recipes you will never look back. |
| Sometimes they overeat. That's when you see | | | | Become a true gourmet and learn to love good |
| them eating chocolate cake and pizza and you | | | | natural food in moderation. Take the time to |
| think they have it made. But other times | | | | prepare and enjoy it properly and you will |
| (more likely when you're not seeing them on | | | | find your taste buds dancing with |
| an evening out) they're satisfied with soup | | | | delight.Copyright 2005, Janice Elizabeth |
| and a salad. It's a balance thing. If slim | | | | SmallJanice Elizabeth is a weight loss coach, |
| people ate too much all the time they would | | | | slimming club owner and author of "The Diet |
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