I'm back on the health wagon again, including being mindful about what I'm putting in my body. I'm having all these revelations about the disordered way I've treated food my whole life.
I've been doing intermittent fasting, and in sticking to that I've come to realize how much mindless eating I was doing because I didn't want to 'waste food'.
Like if my kids wouldn't eat all their dinner, when tidying up I might finish off their leftovers. Or if we'd had food left over when entertaining, I'd scoff a lot of that rather than throwing it away. Can't let food go to waste! Catered lunch at work, same thing.
I was one of six kids and the motto when we were growing up was "If you're not fast, you're last", so I've always had that scarcity mindset and had it drilled into me that wasting food was the worst thing ever.
While fasting, these opportunities to snack have come up, and I've had to struggle to realize that it's more of a waste to eat food I physically do not need than it is to throw it out.
Yes, waste is something we should try to minimize, but there are better ways to go about it than mindlessly munching for the sake of it. Health is way more important.
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