I have another bad habit that I would like to share with you all.
I often grab handfuls of food here and there. Most often after I eat an unbalanced meal that leaves me craving something more, and most often I am pouring dry cereal into my hand and eating that.
Maybe it’s like a desert of sorts.
One night after I ate my dinner and was munching on cereal I found myself thinking on things. As I was stuffing my mouth full of unbolused for carbohydrates, I wondered just how many grams could it possibly be.
So I checked.
I pulled out my Eat Smart Nutrition Scale and punched in the figures for the Honey Nut Cheerios and placed a typical handful of them on the scale. For each “handful” of cheerios I was inhaling, I was eating about 8 grams of carbohydrates.
Stunned, I sat there and thought about how many handfuls I would mindlessly eat in one sitting. Four? Five? Eight? Holy crap batman!
Then I starting thinking about how long I have had this habit, and how often I would do this. Way too long and way too often.
It makes total sense if you think about it. I wouldn’t take me many handfuls to fill up a cereal bowl full of cheerios.
Here I thought (or tried to convince myself) that what I was eating didn’t really add up to much and wouldn’t matter. Now that I am aware of just how many carbs I am eating when I do this, it has been much easier to avoid the habitual behaviour.
Funny how the context of things can skew our perceptions sometimes.
Funny how the reality of things can help us adjust our actions.