Eating small amounts

[Guest guest]

" We " (me, Sweet wild child and darling food police girl) have been

practicing eating small amounts outside of our meals. Example.....We

went to Costco last night after work and of course there was samples

everywhere. In the past I would have white knuckled it throught the

store terrified that if I took one bit....it would have turned into a 4

course dinner by the time I got out of the store. But this time we use

it as a chance to strengthen our " eating a small amount and stopping

muscle " ....so we had a cracker with cheese and we noticed how yummy it

was because we were pretty hungry....and food tasted better when we our

hungry. Now Sweet wild child wanted another one, but I reminded her we

would be going home to a yummy dinner, chose by her in a few minutes

and she was fine.

We have also been eating raisins one at a time....like when I notice

the box of raisins in my cupboard i will get one out and put it in my

mouth and go about my business. I read about doing that somewhere. I

guess in the past if I could eat a box of raisins in a setting it's ok

to eat just one in a setting. LOL

This new adventure is really a trrrrrrrrrrrrrip......

[Guest guest]

I am in graduate school and in my Human Behavior class my professor

had one of her friends come in to do a question and answer session.

Her friend was a stay - at - home Dad, raising his son while his Wife

worked. We were supposed to ask questions, which related to cultural,

social etc... implications.

ANYWAY half way through a girl in class took out her bag of gold

fish, which are one of my favorite foods. The little boy immediately

ran over and looked at her for permission to eat some goldfish. She

then leaned over and let him reach his hands in the gold fish bag.

Over the course of an hour he kept on going back and forth to the

gold fish bag, taking one gold fish at a time to eat.

I found that incredibly interesting. And, with the help of my

classmates, I realized that this child was being raised to eat

intuitively. He did not feel the need to rush the bag and grab giant

handfuls to shove in his mouth... This is what I would have done!

Instead he knew he could have any amount and type of food he wanted

at any time. So he took a gold fish as he felt he needed it, and

savored it.

For me, it was really amazing!

In short, I think taking the time to eat one food item at a time is a

really good idea!

- K