Control Your Appetite by Eliminating Choices
Thursday, January 31st, 2008Some people say that variety is the spice of life. Well, I can agree up to a certain point, but in our world of heavily marketed foods this is really just ridiculous.
When I go to the grocery store, I am amazed by the abundance and variety of food on the shelves. And yet, even though we seem to have so much, there is always more. Magazine ads trumpet the latest type of cheese, new innovations in breakfast cereals, the 99th flavor added to the ice cream case.
It makes me sad.
With all of these variants, it is inevitable that you will find something that you just can't resist. You'll get hooked. One thing leads to another and you're eating so far off plan you wonder who you are.
One way to keep yourself focused is to eliminate all of those choices. Select a narrow range of nutritious foods and do not deviate.
If you're having problems with the concept, check out this article about people eating mud in Haiti:
The mud has long been prized by pregnant women and children here as an antacid and source of calcium. But in places like Cite Soleil, the oceanside slum where Charlene shares a two-room house with her baby, five siblings and two unemployed parents, cookies made of dirt, salt and vegetable shortening have become a regular meal.
"When my mother does not cook anything, I have to eat them three times a day," Charlene said. Her baby, named Woodson, lay still across her lap, looking even thinner than the slim 6 pounds 3 ounces he weighed at birth.
Now ask yourself, do you really think that oil prices are the only thing to blame for the increased cost of food? Could the rampant customization of food be part of problem?
I know this getting on the soap box, but this kind of thing just flies under the radar. 2/3 of people in the United States are overweight and yet people in Haiti are eating mud cookies.
If you can't find the will to cut a few things out of your diet, perhaps this will help.
