Before you eat anything, ask yourself two questions: Does this move me toward my health goals? Will I feel ashamed after? The second one stops you cold. He uses finishing your kid's leftovers as the example everyone does without thinking.
Every single time you go to pick up a food, I've just got to think and ask myself a couple of questions. Is this food going to move me towards my goal or is it going to move me further away from my goal? And actually, one of the, an even more powerful question is, am I going to feel ashamed after eating this? Now, this just sounds kind of like a fairly trivial thing, but you'd be surprised in the last week, the amount of foods I've actually picked up and nearly eaten and then specifically asked myself, am I going to feel ashamed after I eat this, and then I've literally put the food back down. And that could be like cleaning Fern, my daughter's plate away and thinking, shall I pick on the bits that she left over? Any parent will know that's like one of the worst food habits you get into as a parent is that you start, you kind of finish your child's dinner and it's usually, I hate to say it, but, you know, kind of kids and processed food and, you know, that might be grabbing some chocolate, grabbing a cookie with a cup of tea, etc.
