photo: Cath Young
I saw this image and I began to reflect on the past, searching for moments to see if I was ever hungry and as a result became irritable. Even if I wanted to, I couldn’t try to fool myself into thinking that has never happened to me. It is in those moments of hunger, when you can’t think about anything else but eating and your mood turns crabby to everyone you encounter, that your instinctual need for survival kicks in. It is no longer your fault that everything you have practiced about more kindness, more awareness and more happiness flies out the door faster than a shopper on Black Friday. Or is it? If we know that every time we get over hungry, our alter ego comes out and snaps at everyone around us, then why would we wait so long to eat in the first place or even worse, skip a meal? My guess is time. We often say we don’t have enough of it, so we unconsciously lie to ourselves and say whatever we are doing is more important than food. That is until that moment of being over hungry kicks in and our happiness takes second place to our grumpy alter ego that wants food.
Maybe eating 5 to 6 small meals a day is really less about your metabolism and more about maintaining your positive state and feeling good! Whenever you find yourself skipping a meal or putting off eating until later because you’re not hungry, remember the last time you got into a bad mood because you felt like you were starving and know that it can be prevented. Keep snacks with you and eat often. Life is full of many challenges and most of us can find plenty of reasons to get frustrated, don’t let eating be one of them!
Find your truth.
