| Making Chocolate 'Legal' this Easter |
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| Cari Corbet-Owen | |||
| Wednesday, 04 April 2007 | |||
 
For a moment, pretend you’re living in Chocolate Heaven –the shops stock only chocolate, your cupboards are full of chocolates and every menu only has chocolate on it; as many types and flavours you could ever want. What would happen if there was absolutely nothing else whatsoever BUT chocolate to eat: breakfast, lunch and supper? How long do you think you’d crave chocolate if that was all you were ever able to eat? How long do you think it’d be before you were dying for a yummy fresh salad or some nice thick veggie soup? The great thing about Easter is that it’s all about rebirth and so this is a great time to ‘rebirth your thinking’ about dieting and your body. It’s a great time to be making strides away from being a slave to restricting diets and scales and to start living diet-free by getting your MIND over fatter. Because when we get our mind in order then our body can follow, naturally and without doomed–to-failure diets and products. How do you go about rebirthing your thinking? Start by watching really young children (before their inner wisdom has been eroded) - notice how they eat when they are hungry and stop when they’ve had enough? Last Easter I visited a friend with an 18 month old daughter. While her Mom and I were chatting she found a hidden Easter egg and wanted it. Her mother handled this perfectly. She opened the Easter egg for her daughter and gave it to her and without creating any fuss whatsoever, at the same time she opened up the fridge and took out a few pieces of cucumber and popped it into a place with some muesli and put that next to her young daughter. Her daughter did what children naturally do – she nibbled about a teaspoon of the Easter egg and then turned to the muesli and cucumber and ate them. Her mother wisely left the Easter egg where her daughter had left it and it remained untouched. This is how children eat when given a variety of choices before we start tampering with their natural ability to regulate their own appetites. We all did that ‘once-upon-a-childhood’ – and with new thinking, we can get back to that again. Start thinking about food and eating the way the child in you once used to.
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