| 1. Food should not be wastedWe have learnt not to | | | | Naturally slim people simply move around more during |
| leave food even though we don't really want it. If | | | | the course of the day even if they don't take regular |
| we cooked it, bought it, served it up on a plate or | | | | exercise. They're forever on the go. They're up and |
| ordered it in a restaurant it has to be eaten because | | | | down more. And they fidget more. Studies have |
| "it's a sin to throw away good food". So we use our | | | | shown that they use up more calories than others in |
| bodies as a kind of human waste disposal unit and | | | | that way.If you eat and move like your slim friends |
| pile unwanted pounds onto our hips.We learnt to | | | | you will have little to envy.4. Healthy food doesn't |
| clean our plates when we were kids, mostly from | | | | make you fatYou can get fat eating anything - |
| well-meaning parents who wanted to make sure we | | | | although, granted, it would be difficult to overeat |
| got enough nourishment and tried to make us feel | | | | lettuce. But some natural foods are high in calories - in |
| guilty about all the starving people in the world. We | | | | particular nuts and seeds - so you can easily take in |
| learnt to eat stuff we didn't really want or need to | | | | too many calories with these. And fruit juices, |
| please our parents and sometimes we got more | | | | smoothies and shakes can really pile on the pounds. |
| food as a reward ("Eat your dinner or you won't get | | | | Too many complex carbohydrates, whole grain |
| dessert").Now you're an adult you can take a | | | | though they are, will go straight to your hips too. |
| different approach. Buy less, cook less, serve up less | | | | Healthy foods are great but they still have to be |
| and order less but if it's still more food than you | | | | eaten in moderation.Having said that, true healthy |
| need, throw it out rather than down your throat. It's | | | | natural real foods are not generally the real problem. |
| a greater waste to over feed your body than it is to | | | | The main culprit here are those foods which are |
| throw out excess food.2. Food equals loveWe learn | | | | branded as healthy by food manufacturers - the |
| from birth to link love and comfort from our mother | | | | foods that are "full of goodness" or low in fat or |
| with being fed and that feeling is reinforced | | | | carbs or whatever. They offer so-called healthy |
| throughout childhood. We equate food with being | | | | options for cookies, cakes and pies that you could do |
| cared for. So it's often the first thing we turn to | | | | well without eating. They just tempt you to eat |
| when we want to experience those feelings of love | | | | more because you think they are healthy or low in |
| and comfort again.But food is not love. A | | | | calories. Check the labels and give them a miss.5. Only |
| double-chocolate chip cookie or plateful of fries will | | | | unhealthy food tastes goodYou may have spent |
| never love you back. Only people can do that.If you | | | | years assaulting your taste-buds with fat and sugar |
| need love, you need contact with other living | | | | confectionary, salty snacks and fried foods and that |
| breathing humans. Call up a friend and talk, don't eat.3. | | | | is what they have learnt to know and love. But |
| Slim people can eat as much food as they likeThis | | | | actually many foods that you eat have sugar and salt |
| one is actually true but not in the way we often | | | | added to give them appeal they wouldn't otherwise |
| believe it. Slim people eat as much as they like but | | | | have. Once you start tasting quality natural foods and |
| they don't live for food. They like to eat as much as | | | | delicious healthy recipes you will never look back. |
| they need and they do. Sometimes they overeat. | | | | Become a true gourmet and learn to love good |
| That's when you see them eating chocolate cake | | | | natural food in moderation. Take the time to prepare |
| and pizza and you think they have it made. But other | | | | and enjoy it properly and you will find your taste |
| times (more likely when you're not seeing them on | | | | buds dancing with delight.Copyright 2005, Janice |
| an evening out) they're satisfied with soup and a | | | | Elizabeth SmallJanice Elizabeth is a weight loss coach, |
| salad. It's a balance thing. If slim people ate too much | | | | slimming club owner and author of "The Diet Exit |
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