Weight Weight Just Love Me – Abundance – Day 19
Michelle LaBrosse, CCPM, PMP, PMI-ACP, RYT
Plating is an elegant way to be more conscious of portion sizes and feel happy with less. One of the many things I’ve learned from my dietician.
My dietitian Kate posted an incredible blog yesterday about nutritionally healthy traits. One of them I realized – wow – I have never even thought much about the converse of this one:
5) Feeling safe and confident that they have enough food
This is also known as food security, and it can help prevent over-eating episodes. For example – have you ever had food FOMO (Fear Of Missing Out)? Where you say “I’m not sure when I’ll get to have this again” or “someone in my household might eat all of this before I get a chance to have some” and then you eat it, whereas otherwise you may not have?
Instead, some nutrition-savvy people think “I know that I can have that later if I want it, now that I know exactly where and when to find it!”
I grew up in a large family with three older brothers, a younger brother and a younger sister. While I don’t remember ever going to bed hungry, I do remember quite a bit of competition about getting my fair share of whatever was there. As Kate identifies this above, it’s a form of food hoarding. It’s a primal drive to survive and part of survival is packing it on for an impending famine. It makes sense if you feel food is scarce, you’ll pack it in in the event you won’t have any later.
This line that Kate put about what nutrition savvy people think – “I know that I can have that later if I want it, now that I know exactly where and when to find it!” – for me, I’d change that up a bit to be – Whatever I want and need shows up when I need it. And this includes not just food, but also friends, and opportunities. Which has actually been more true than not time and time again. Loving myself more means being so grateful the world I live in is consistently a very kind and abundant place, in all realms.
Kate’s comment: I like how you made the line your own. Your version also conveys “if I don’t have it right now, I don’t need it right now” – and that can help prevent people from making unnecessary trips to the store to get a tube of cookie dough (because they saw a commercial about freshly baked cookies and they need some RIGHT NOW).
