In her way, she was right in challenging my request for food, because, 99% of the times it was driven only by craving, not real hunger.
Today, I hold to that lesson close, and every time I feel like I want to eat something I stop and think about it for a moment : “Am I really hungry? Or am I just craving something?”
What about you: are you able to distinguish between cravings and hunger?
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Now, that's good old fashioned wisdom that we should remember more often!
ReplyDeleteAmen to that!
ReplyDeleteWhat a good saying. I am going to remember that.
ReplyDeleteShe is a wise woman - and just like my mother! She never let us snack - she'd tell us "have a fruit"!
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I say exactly that quite often to my kids. Quite often they eat the apple, but then so do i as often an apple is what I crave - I suspect I picked up the habit as a kid from my mum saying the same thing to me.
ReplyDeletehaha..I said this to myself the other day. All I had was a banana...didn't want to eat it. Guess I wasn't that hungry x
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