There are times when multi-tasking are absolutely necessary. If I didn't multi-task, I'd never get anything done. Take for instance right now. I am studying something for work, blogging, doing laundry and feeding the baby. With 3 boys (1 being 10 weeks old), a job, a husband, being on a church planting team, and holding the position of keeping my family organized, fed, clean, etc...I have no choice but to split my brain and hands among many tasks. Sometimes, multi-tasking becomes so second nature to many of us that we even multi-task and eat. I found myself the other night rocking my baby's carseat with my foot while making dinner for my older boys, looking through bills, and eating all at the same time. I'm lucky their food didn't burn. Maybe I would've been more lucky if the bills had burned instead. I could apply "the dog ate my homework" principle except it'd be "the bills burned up on the stove."
I have no idea how much I really consumed. My hands went on cruise control...down to my plate then up to my mouth. Repeat. The whole plate thing is actually just a visual picture because I wasn't eating off of a plate which is one of the "new habits" I want to talk about.
In a previous post "Mind Before Mouth" I mentioned that I am trying to think about what I am eating and drinking before I put it in my mouth. I am now going to take that a step further and say that I am going to put my whole mind on what I'm eating for that short amount of time and apply a few new things to my eating routine.
#1 I will sit and not stand when eating.
#2 I will not read, look at the computer, talk on the phone, work, or do anything else when I eat. Just eat and be with my family if I can.
#3 I will serve myself a small portion of food on a plate or in a bowl and will not eat out of a package, box, sack, pot or pan while I am cooking. (If I am still hungry (not appetite, but hunger), I can take a second portion, but will always start small....I'm going to talk about the "hunger scale" another time.)
By just applying these 3 new (or revisited) habits, I can learn to enjoy my food more, listen to my hunger, and stop myself from eating more than I need. Do you multi-tasking eaters need to drop the old habits and pick up some new ones too? This is just another one of those "behaviors" I referenced in the post on not dieting. The last post was about a "black and white" thought pattern that we get trapped in and tripped up by. If diets have always been on again off again for you, a source of frustration, and up and down like a yo-yo...be sure to read the last 2 posts. You can visit those by clicking on the links highlighted in this paragraph.
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