Multitasking (Re: Principle #1 - Reject the Diet Mentality)

[Guest guest]

The most important and difficult thing I have learned so far is to not

multitask when I eat. No computer, book or whatever. It really makes paying

attention to what my body is feeling so much easier and I tend to eat less.

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Oh yes, wow. Saturday was my first day here and right away I picked up the

concept of focusing only on eating. My Saturday lunch was eaten sitting in a

chair at the table. It was preceded by considerable angst: what to do if I'm not

doing something while I'm eating? I could be getting something else done!

Suppose it's boring? I might quit early and not eat enough and then be hungry

and eat compulsively later. But I pulled it off, for that one meal anyway. My

mind so wanted to be off the food that I found myself working on aligning my

body so that the tree in the yard was right in the exact center of the window.

It seemed I wanted to think about anything, anything except the food I was

eating.

So this is interesting: Why, while eating, would I so desperately want something

to take my mind off what I'm eating????

Ellie