Food, the Holidays & You: Who’s the Boss?

Ahhh, the holidays!  The fun!  The festivity!  And the numerous articles and emails in your inbox telling you how to be healthy and not gain weight this holiday season.  Some of the advice is good: “Make sure you are getting enough protein and fat so your blood sugar is stable.”

And some of the advice is, well…

“To avoid overeating at parties, eat with your non-dominant hand.”

Really?

I am sure the intention here is good: eating with your non-dominant hand would certainly get you to slow down a little and in turn, be more mindful.  But you might also drop food on yourself, stain your new shirt plus, let’s face it, it would just look a little strange.  This really got me thinking:  Why do we need so many rules around food to get ourselves to slow down and eat mindfully? Is the pull of food SO strong that we are completely defenseless against it unless we institute a bunch of wacky rules to stand between us and food?

Who’s the boss?  Food or us?

For many years of my life, food was my boss and a mean boss at that! I felt completely powerless against it–I either deprived myself so I wouldn’t lose control, or I ate everything in site as if to say, “oh, yeah, bossy?  Take that!”  I was waiting and waiting (and waiting…) for the time when food no longer controlled my life, never realizing that I had the choice to take back control back along.  The choice to:

~Be mindful about food (but not obsessed)

~Eat when I was hungry

~Stop when I’d had enough

~Choose the foods my whole body wanted (not just my taste buds)

Of course, making these choices isn’t always easy and required (and still requires) daily practice.  It’s worth it though…no more wacky rules or messy shirts, just a healthy relationship with food where I call the shots!

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