Post by lizlor on Nov 16, 2020 18:35:15 GMT
Day 17: End Overeating
Overload Your Plate—and Don’t Eat It All
Beck says: Today, you’ll practice not overeating by purposely putting more food on your plate than you plan to eat. Pick one meal, preferably lunch or dinner. Choose a food that’s on your plan, but then I want you to purposely give yourself a larger portion than you would normally allow. Also, choose a food that you’re not supposed to eat and put it on your plate. At the beginning of the meal, push the extra portions to the side on your plate. Then eat only the food on your plan.
If you find that you still want to eat what’s left on your plate, counter your sabotaging thoughts. For example, if you think, It’s a shame that I can’t eat this ... It’s bad to waste food, then tell yourself, Isn’t it great that I’m not eating this ... This is getting me closer to my goal of losing weight ... This is helping me to strengthen my resistance muscle. The truth is that the extra food will either go to waste in my body or go to waste in the garbage. And, I might not learn from this, but I also might learn a lot.
Also remind yourself just how good you’ll feel if you don’t overeat versus how bad you’ll feel if you do.
Is anyone going to try this? How do you think this exercise might help?
Overload Your Plate—and Don’t Eat It All
Beck says: Today, you’ll practice not overeating by purposely putting more food on your plate than you plan to eat. Pick one meal, preferably lunch or dinner. Choose a food that’s on your plan, but then I want you to purposely give yourself a larger portion than you would normally allow. Also, choose a food that you’re not supposed to eat and put it on your plate. At the beginning of the meal, push the extra portions to the side on your plate. Then eat only the food on your plan.
If you find that you still want to eat what’s left on your plate, counter your sabotaging thoughts. For example, if you think, It’s a shame that I can’t eat this ... It’s bad to waste food, then tell yourself, Isn’t it great that I’m not eating this ... This is getting me closer to my goal of losing weight ... This is helping me to strengthen my resistance muscle. The truth is that the extra food will either go to waste in my body or go to waste in the garbage. And, I might not learn from this, but I also might learn a lot.
Also remind yourself just how good you’ll feel if you don’t overeat versus how bad you’ll feel if you do.
Is anyone going to try this? How do you think this exercise might help?
