I got this text from a hypnotherapist. I really like it because no matter what I do,eating raw,organic,or anything else I CAN NOT stopping cleaning my plate.
I can be completely stuffed,but that voice "from my grandmother" comes to me and say:"be a good girl,don't waste food because there are so many people that have no food".
So,I finish my plate (with guilt and a little anger).
I did everything (except hypnosis- maybe I should do that),but I still cleaning my plate as a "good girl".
Another thing is fasting.As soon as finish doing fasting I have to eat like crazy because,again,the voice : "you have to eat to grow up,to be strong".
Maybe thinking like a car -food as fuel- would help me.





Food is fuel. That doesn't sound like
a revelation, does it? I mean, we all
know food is fuel, it's what keeps us
going through the day, builds muscles,
powers our brains.

But think of it again. Food is fuel.
If that's all that food is, why do we
obsess about it? Why do we eat too
much of it? Why do we put in types of
fuel that our body neither wants nor needs?

Imagine if you did that to your car
- can you picture yourself at the gas station,
filling up, and then when the tank is full,
you just keep on pumping, so that it flows
out all over the forecourt. People would
think you were crazy.

Or imagine taking your nice shiny sedan
out to a farm and filling it up with thick,
sludgy farm diesel - it would ruin the engine.
Yet that is what we do to our bodies when we
overeat, when we cram in junk food with no
nutritional value.

What has happened is that over the past 100
years our attitude towards food has been
profoundly changed, mostly by the advertising
industry. It is estimated that the average
American is bombarded with up to 1500 food
related ads per day, each of which is dedicated
to the message that food is so much more than fuel.

Food is now a lifestyle choice, a status symbol,
a reward, a pleasure, a comfort, a celebration,
and it is, above and beyond anything else,
an emotional experience.

So what happens if instead, you go back to
believing that food is fuel? Two consequences
run from that. The first is that you naturally
stop overeating. The second is that the quality
of the food that you're going to choose will
naturally improve. We'll look at each of these
in turn.

Overeating is something that we have learned.
We learned it because we long ago forgot that
food was fuel, and just like your car's gas tank,
we need to stop before we overfill it.

Thus we learned to clear out plate, regardless
of how we felt. We learned to eat our school
lunch quickly, because we were in a hurry.
We learned to sit and stuff our faces while
watching TV, because that's what everyone else does.

But when you realize once again that food is
primarily fuel for your body, you start to
ask different questions - such as what are
the best foods that are going to fuel your
body and give you energy, and how much of
them should you eat?

Are the foods you are eating giving you the
energy that you deserve? Are they giving you
the energy that you need to live the life that
you want to lead?

When looked at in this light, you start to make
very different decisions about food. It's not
about what you have to give up or do without,
it's now about what do you choose to eat to be
the person you want to be.

So when you begin thinking about food as fuel,
it's not about beating yourself up over the
things you have to stop eating, it's about
making new decisions about
-How good you want to feel?
-How much energy you want to experience?
-How alive you want to be?

When this happens, controlling your
weight becomes a lot easier.

to your beautiful body,
Jim Katsoulis

That was great, cy, thanks for posting!

I was raised by people who had known starvation throu wartime and I have had to fight the urge to clean my plate. This was something that was drummed into me from an early age, in spite of the plenty to be found in this country; the elders there still possessed the cultural fear of famine, and projected it onto successive generations. I find that it helps a lot to eat reasonable portions--that way, even if I clean my plate, I haven't overeaten. And I always give myself permission to eat some more if I still feel hungry a half hour later. Generally, that isn't the case.

Thank you so much Tamukha.
I was born in Brazil and we had vegetable garden,fruit trees,fresh meat,everything was done from scratch and my grandmother was always thankful for all that wonderful way of living.I do understand and agree with her,but my child's heart heard "don't ever waste because you have so much and others don't have the same lucky.
So I understand but I feel bad,and that feeling obligates me to eat what I don't want.

I did try it today in my breakfast.
Normally I make an apple sauce on the blender with 2 apples and than make a
smoothie with a little of the apple sauce,banana,chia seeds,bee polen,water,and sometimes almond milk. I eat the apple sauce with cinnamon and drink the whole smoothie (because I HAVE to finish it!!!!!!!).

Well,today I made the apple sauce (my favorite breakfast) and the smoothie.Ate the apple sauce and drunk a little bit of the smoothie and RUN AWAY to my room.
I felt great,no need to go back and drink the rest of it.
In the afternoon I got the rest of the smoothie.

Small portions and no guilt.It takes time,but it is worth it.Thanks.

cy,

See! Our brains do want to please us; sometimes we just need to cajole them a little bit. Keep at this sytem and pretty soon, it will be natural to you, whereas eating even after full to clean a plate has been unnatural

Tamukha,have you heard about Ho'oponopono ?
[www.idreamcatcher.com]

I started to talk with my body and it is working a lot.
Another thing is when I get nervous/ansiety I run to the shower and take a warm bath.

Thank you so much for your help and attention.

cy,

I had heard this term before, but didn't know the meaning; I confess I find it somewhat recondite. I'll look into it, though. Thanks so much for posting that link!

HI CY

you can still "clean your plate"
but you can just choose to clean that exact same plate at different times and days
in that way, you are still honoring the principle of "respect food" because it is sustenance instead of throwing it away and being wasteful

like whatever is on your plate,
you can "clean" it a little bit at a time, til it is clean
which is what you seemed to have successfully done

job well done!!

brazil sounds beautiful
what with all the fruit trees, gardens of veggies.. shesssh what a PARADISE

it seems where u grew up

cool