So I’ve been an overeager My entire life. I’ve always been surrounded by amazing cooks, and without sounding too cocky, I’m a great cook myself. So I always cleared my plate. “Clean plate club” we used to call it. It was a badge of honor.
I have absolutely ballooned the last few years thanks to the clean plate club. I’ve recently started living alone, and I still cook amazing food, last night I cooked sirloin steak, jasmine rice, and on a whim made a mushroom and spinach cream sauce. Absolutely delicious. I loved every bite.
The steak I cooked is actually off of a slab, and I cooked it because while I marked the sealed bag “1 sirloin” before I froze it, there was actually 2 in there. So I could have totally gone back for more. Like I always did. I wanted to.
But instead I played games with my friends and let it sit in my stomach for a while until I forgot that it was still sitting in my kitchen. By the time I remembered it was still in there I honestly wasn’t hungry enough to commit to eating it. So I put it away and instead enjoyed it for lunch today.
I’m trying to train myself to eat until I’m not hungry anymore, rather than eating until I’m full, or my plate is cleaned. So, while I’m still a member of the clean plate club, the plate no longer needs to be cleaned twice.
It’s a small step, and I have a long journey to go to re-teach myself how I should be eating. Sometimes being a member of the clean plate club means you make your plate smaller.
I wish all of you luck in your journey.
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