Progress Prompts - 10/13/2003
Describe your eating habits at mealtime. Do you think you need to change them in order to lose weight and get healthy? Where do you usually eat? Health experts are telling us not to eat in front of TV. Why?
Today I am not going to worry too much about what I eat, since it is Thanksgiving. However, I am still going to restrict the amount of processed carbs I eat. I either eat standing up (breakfast - on the way to the gym), in front of the computer, and sometimes I even eat properly at the kitchen table. For me, I don't think eating in front of the computer is as bad as it is for some other people. I only carry a small portion of what I'm eating up there, so if I want more, I have to make an extra 2 trips on the stairs to get it. I don't watch TV, so I don't eat in front of it, either. Why I think eating in front of the TV is unhealthy is because you are usually so absorbed in watching the show that you will unconsciously eat the whole bag of chips/carton of ice cream without thinking about portion sizes and whether you're full or not. The eating continues through the duration of the show, and usually occurs later in the day, when calories consumed are not so quickly burned off.