This week of mid-March I am choosing to draw my awareness to not what I eat as much as when I eat and how much I eat. As I have seen in my community service projects, and in general, so much food is wasted everyday. The average waste per person per day in O’ahu is nine pounds of trash (nearly double the national average). That’s crazy and I refuse to contribute that much. This unused food goes to landfills to rot and take up space that this world won’t have forever. Also, we Americans spend a lot of time stuffing ourselves, over consuming and then paying the price in medical problems while other parts of the world have nothing and are starving. That unfairness has always bothered me. So I have selected the following statements from “Food Rules” to focus on. ‘Eat when you are hungry, not when you are bored,’ Eat Slowly (In an effort to eat less), ‘Don’t go back for seconds after a proper portion,’ ‘Stop eating before you are full,’ and ‘Consult your gut’ (because often one’s eyes are truly larger than their stomach). I sincerely just want to bring more attention to how I eat. Changing what you eat is as simple as grabbing one thing over another, but changing my habits are just as important to me, and definitely constitute a large part of this lifestyle revolution.
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