I’ve been in all-day meetings for my day job recently: which means lots of time sitting in a chair, and tons of continuously catered food.
What’s a health-minded, skinny-jeans-wearing, life-lovin’ girl to do? Especially if she wants to still be able to haul her ass up aerial equipment?
Waste Food!
We’ve all been taught from a young age to clean our plates. Remember the “starving children in Africa”?
Well, now that we’re adults, we know that the leftover food on our plates isn’t going to be served to some needy child. So, please feel free to not eat it all!
- Today we were served burrito bowls for lunch: each bowl was bigger than my head! So what’s a poor guacamole-lovin’ girl to do? I enjoyed every delicious bite of the first half of the bowl, and stashed the rest in the fridge to take home for later.
- Now, come afternoon, there were deadly-delicious, ginormous chocolate chip cookies. Yes, I know I want one! I ate a tangerine first, but the craving was still there. So, I grabbed half the cookie and left the other half for someone else. Chances are, they were thankful to be able to grab the other half!
- After dinner…boy those desserts look delicious! I really want some, but I know eating the whole thing was a bad move. So, I ordered one, tried it, and passed it around the table. People will love you (who doesn’t love someone who shares their dessert?), and by the time it gets back to you, most of it’s eaten. Perfect! No more temptation!
The way I see it, if we eat food that we don’t really want, we’re wasting it anyways. Because, we’re just going to go to the gym to work it off: which takes more time!