Your Eyes are Bigger than Your Stomach

Your eyes are bigger than your stomach.  That is what we have always heard growing up.  Sadly, most of us have grown up and our eyes are still bigger than our stomachs.  It’s the same every time, within a 15 min time period, we can go from starving and so excited for food to extremely sick and miserable.  I actually shouldn't use the term starving because we use that so loosely, I don't even think we know what that means.  Kids in Africa are starving.  They are so skinny all of their bones are showing.  We get a little rumble in our stomach and we are starving, really? 

Why does food have so much control over us?  Sure, that cherry cheesecake or that big juicy ribeye steak tastes great, but is it worth being deathly ill afterwards or gaining weight and being very unhealthy?  Sadly, the way I can tell if I ate right or not is if I need my after dinner mint or not.  And what is my after dinner mint you ask?  My after dinner mint is either Gaviscon, Tums or Pepto. 

I know I should be eating on a very strict diet with my PCOS, but moderation would be an outstanding start.  Is it an insecurity that we have?  If we have an extra large piece of pie instead of a half of one, will it make that big of a difference in our lives other than the difference between a major belly ache and weight gain versus a taste of something delicious?  We can have a taste of that thing we love so much, but we need to learn to have a small portion instead of a huge portion.  So the next time I need something full of  fat and delicious I will do everything I can to just have a little bit.  I know most times this is easier said than done and possibly the biggest battle we will ever fight in our lives, but if we take baby steps toward that we can make that change in our lives.  We can control the food instead of letting the food control us.  We will eat to live and not live to eat. 

~ Tammy

 

 

 

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