This past Sunday night I enjoyed a wonderful family dinner prepared by my mother-in-law, Victoria. I love pot roast, cooked carrots, and especially mashed potatoes, because I rarely eat potatoes. So, I dished up a nice full plate and started to eat. As I started into pot roast and my first thought was I didn't get enough meat, I should go back and get more meat. Alas, I didn't because I had plenty of other food to enjoy. I ate slowly, I enjoyed eat bite, but the whole time my tongue is telling my mind "I want more." My taste buds are having a party, and my stomach hasn't put it's two cents in.
I had a clean plate. Actually there wasn't even gravy left to lick up. It was clean, could have put the dish away. It took all my mental capacity to resist the urge to go back for seconds. I wasn't hungry, it just tasted good. I takes a lot of mind over taste buds to break the habit of over eating. My doctor recently told me it only take eating 50 calories a day to much to put on 5 pounds a year. That's not hard to do. Even if you eat good most days and then over indulge by several hundred calories on one day it's hard to make up the difference.
It's important to exercise, it's important to have portion control, and it's important not to go back for seconds!
The peas were gone, the Yorkshire pudding was gone but the meat, carrots, mashed potatoes and gravy were all still available for the taking. Good for you Audrey for activating self discipline, it's hard when there is still yummy tasty food available.
ReplyDeleteThis is a great reminder to all of us. It is so easy to go back instead of enjoying what we have at the moment! Thanks!
ReplyDeleteThat was an exercise in self-control for sure because that was so tasty. I think everyone's plate looked lick-clean. First time I ever had Yorkshire pudding--delish-- and it seems to me it is misnamed, more like bread than pudding.
ReplyDeleteThat is exactly what my problem is! I eat food because it tastes good, no emotional or other issue, it just tastes so dang good (and I don't think my stomach ever tells me that it's full unless it has a giant baby squishing it...and that's probably never going to happen again after this one is born). I applaud your self-discipline, my favorite eggnog just came into stock at the ice cream store and I bought some. It takes every ounce of self-control to have only one serving a day. Thankfully my kids love eggnog too and they each get one serving a day as well, so it goes quickly.
ReplyDeleteWonderful post Audrey (of course your posts always are). I wish I had your self control today at my Relief Society dinner. It was pot luck and of course I felt the need to try everything! Oh well there is always next time to do better.
ReplyDeleteOnly 50 calories a day?? YIKES! That's so easy to go over. No wonder why Trainer Momma counts her calories almost daily.
ReplyDeleteOh, man, for some reason I feel guilty just reading this post! I think it's because I'm kind of sliding these days. My life has changed, in some ways for the better, but it also means I'm crazy busy, and I just don't have the time to devote to keeping up with all the healthy habits I used to.
ReplyDeleteGood food is always hard to resist... you did great. Someone else's cooking always tastes better to me so I tend to over do. Getting better at just a taste...size servings.
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