Re: Re: Multitasking

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Makes sense to me!I think the "only at the table" idea is to get us out of mindless grazing, separating meals from other activities, calling our attention to become aware of unconscious eating. We all know the "I only eat one meal a day" syndrome. (In case anyone doesn't..... the one meal lasts all day.) After having done the table thing a couple of times, my feelings are, "OK, OK! I get the message! Just don't confine me to that table anymore!!" A family meal at the table is fine, and we do that once a day (most days.) Ellie To: IntuitiveEating_Support Sent: Thursday, November 24, 2011 1:49 PM Subject: RE: Re: Multitasking

This is just some food for thought (so to speak!). I’m

getting this from How to Become Naturally Thin By Eating More by Jean

Antonello. “Where you eat does not have an effect on your weight.

In spite of the many diet manuals which say you must be sitting down to eat, or

you must not have the television on, or you must be in the kitchen, these

things don’t matter. Naturally thin people don’t think about

such things. There is nothing magically nonfattening about sitting down

at the table to eat, nor is there anything fattening about eating in front of

the TV. Even midnight eating in bed has no appreciable effect on how fat

or thin you are. You can eat wherever you want to and feel most

comfortable at a given moment. The places might change with your moods

and appetites. That’s OK, as long as you are eating real food to

satisfy your real hunger.†I quote this because I feel that making yourself sit at the table

or whatever is just another restriction that could possibly be doomed to fail,

therefore making a person doubt themselves and beat themselves up for failing

yet again – another diet mentality. I think the key is the last

sentence – eating real food to satisfy your real hunger. Real life

doesn’t always allow us to sit at a table or eat really slow…..as

long as you are eating real food to satisfy your real hunger, you are following

the right path. This is my opinion because I was beating myself up for not

sitting at the table, eating slower, etc; I welcome feedback. Kate