“Clean your plate!” We all grew up hearing it, and I think this phrase is largely responsible for our growing obesity problem. We should be teaching our children to eat until they are no longer hungry, then stop. If the alpha wolf or king lion ate until all the food was gone, the pups and cubs would starve. But as humans we have conquered our environment so these laws of nature no longer apply and we now clean our plates so all the food is gone.
Part of the lifestyle change required for our patients to be successful is to eliminate those thoughts we learned during our upbringing that make us feel guilty or wasteful if we leave any food on our plates. By limiting food intake, patients that have undergone weight loss surgery realize that it is OK to leave food on their plate. Here at the Gastric Band Institute, our psychotherapist, Rachel, and our dietitian, Prudence, can also help with their Mindful Eating classes. For more information on when these classes are taught, please call 702-384-8446.
Please share here the infamous lines and techniques your parents used to coax you to eat. I bet this sounds familiar: “Just three more bites!”
– Dr. Darren Soong
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