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| Babe's Chicken-Mountain of fried chicken tenders, fried chicken, and chicken fried steak!! |
So there I was, sitting at Babe's Chicken with many of my peeps, plate full of fried chicken, creamed corn, mashed potatoes, and one more biscuit with molasses (mmmm, molasses...*insert guttural Homer Simpson drooling sounds here*) Next to me sat Preggo, one of my current clients who is, you guessed it, pregnant. With her was her 4 year old son who is quite the picky eater. After some coaxing, he ate some chicken then declared "Momma I'm full" and returned back to his enthralling game of Angry Birds. As the rest of us continued to stuff our pie holes, Preggo turns to me and says "You ever notice how kids just stop eating? Do you ever remember feeling horribly stuffed when we were kids??"
So now I sit here writing this wondering, why in the world do so many people eat to excess, knowing damn good and well they will feel awful afterwards? Most young children stop eating when they're full. They listen to what their body is telling them and just stop. Sure they can always be coaxed into a piece of cake or cookie, but for the most part, full kids=no more eating. But as adults, we eat the pre-meal (followed by "geez, I'm gonna be full before our meal comes out"), then we eat the meal (lying to ourselves and saying we'll only eat half, then force feeding the rest of it down), and THEN we eat the post meal which consists of 1000 grams of sugar when we already said we couldn't eat another bite!! What is wrong with us?!?! Why do we do that to ourselves??
There are a number of factors that I believe come into play. We want value (who doesn't??) and we always want to "get our money's worth" when we eat. Many of us come from the clean plate club, where our parents made us sit at the table until we were done. (ErmahGERD no one could've finished off the mounds of food at our Babe's table!!) Some still have the "there are starving kids in___________ who only wish they had this food to eat" syndrome.
As far as getting your money's worth, if you've eaten, you enjoyed it, and you're full, I believe that should satisfy the criteria. Diabetes and high blood pressure are pretty friggin expensive, and in my opinion should trump any notion of getting your money's worth. If you're concerned about cleaning your plate, either request a smaller plate, or get over it!! Just because it's sitting in front of you doesn't mean you have to eat ALL of it. For reals, it's ok. You're a big boy/girl now and you can decide when you've had enough. And yes there are starving kids in the world. If you're really that concerned then put down your knife and fork, wipe the sauce from the corner of your mouth, and go do something about it!! :-)
As I polished off the last bite of my makeshift molasses chicken biscuit, and gasped for breath, I thought "UGH, why did I just do this??" It was the last meal before a cleanse and 28 days of clean eating, it was my last chance to consume any of the food that was in front of me for a while, and I was trying to "enjoy" as much of it as I could. I felt quite awful the rest of the night, and was still full when I woke up (which almost never happens). This would be quite problematic if I did this all the time, but fortunately I don't...however there are people out there who do this EVERY DAY!! At some point we must stop the justification, put down our silverware, take a great lesson from a 4 year old, and just say "Momma, I'm full."
So now I sit here writing this wondering, why in the world do so many people eat to excess, knowing damn good and well they will feel awful afterwards? Most young children stop eating when they're full. They listen to what their body is telling them and just stop. Sure they can always be coaxed into a piece of cake or cookie, but for the most part, full kids=no more eating. But as adults, we eat the pre-meal (followed by "geez, I'm gonna be full before our meal comes out"), then we eat the meal (lying to ourselves and saying we'll only eat half, then force feeding the rest of it down), and THEN we eat the post meal which consists of 1000 grams of sugar when we already said we couldn't eat another bite!! What is wrong with us?!?! Why do we do that to ourselves??
There are a number of factors that I believe come into play. We want value (who doesn't??) and we always want to "get our money's worth" when we eat. Many of us come from the clean plate club, where our parents made us sit at the table until we were done. (ErmahGERD no one could've finished off the mounds of food at our Babe's table!!) Some still have the "there are starving kids in___________ who only wish they had this food to eat" syndrome.
As far as getting your money's worth, if you've eaten, you enjoyed it, and you're full, I believe that should satisfy the criteria. Diabetes and high blood pressure are pretty friggin expensive, and in my opinion should trump any notion of getting your money's worth. If you're concerned about cleaning your plate, either request a smaller plate, or get over it!! Just because it's sitting in front of you doesn't mean you have to eat ALL of it. For reals, it's ok. You're a big boy/girl now and you can decide when you've had enough. And yes there are starving kids in the world. If you're really that concerned then put down your knife and fork, wipe the sauce from the corner of your mouth, and go do something about it!! :-)
As I polished off the last bite of my makeshift molasses chicken biscuit, and gasped for breath, I thought "UGH, why did I just do this??" It was the last meal before a cleanse and 28 days of clean eating, it was my last chance to consume any of the food that was in front of me for a while, and I was trying to "enjoy" as much of it as I could. I felt quite awful the rest of the night, and was still full when I woke up (which almost never happens). This would be quite problematic if I did this all the time, but fortunately I don't...however there are people out there who do this EVERY DAY!! At some point we must stop the justification, put down our silverware, take a great lesson from a 4 year old, and just say "Momma, I'm full."
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