I Think I Know Why Lots Of Women Struggle To Lose Weight Post Baby...

[Bathsheba]

... because we are so busy with our baby/children that we don't get to sit and actually TASTE our food!!!

I'm starting to pack on some extra kilos after a few years of being hyperthyroid (too fast metabolism) and now can't seem to get away with eating anything anytime. So I am reassing every thing i eat.... actually stopping and thinking; do i need this?

This morning it occured to me that i was so busy trying to make my boys breakfast and school lunches etc (stopping them from fighting... getting them to SIT at the table) that I realised that i had already eaten my toast... but I couldn't remember it. So of course I went to pop another in the toaster... but thought... 'no, you don't really need that'. Hmmmm.

Wouldn't it be great if us mums had the luxury of sitting and eating our meals and actually tasting them? I think this is half the reason I get up early and leave the house most Saturday mornings and have breakfast in the city... in a quiet cafe... by myself. I savour every mouthful and then feel satiated. I tend to overeat at home... not so much when i am out and about... and when i was working and able to take time off to have my lunch in peace also recall maintaining a much healther weight.



What do you think? Maybe I should get up a bit earlier to have breakfast??? Do you? If only i could just stay seated when i am having a meal... great in theory but my boys just seem to keep me too busy... they want water... spills... wandering off and then wanting me to help in other rooms etc. I could ask that they stay at the table until i am finished but is this realistic?

[Freya]

I think your onto something Bath! I saw something on TV about feeling fuller if you actually chew your food slowly and really taste it.

[Bathsheba]

Maybe it's why DH is still so slim despite being 43. When he has food infront of him nothing else matters.... well he does stop and deal with the kids if he HAS to... but usually he is 100% focussed on the meal. I never am unless i am alone... i'm anticipating being interrupted and spend most of my time anticipating the needs of others. I also know that it's wrong to eat on the run... you should always sit while eating... but recently i'm noticing how hard it is to actually do this with young kids in the house (before I didn't care because it didn't have weight consequences). It's so often the way that I just get settled and a child needs something meaning i have to stand up and deal while chewing.

[Freya]

Definately know where you are coming from. I always feel like Im shovelling my meal in my mouth at lightening speed because I know Dh will take his sweet time enjoying his food and that the peace with the boys will only last til one has finished the meal so I eat fast to run off and start the bath before all heck breaks loose, lay out PJs, start stacking the dishwasher...................always something to do in the 10min of p&q caused by feeding the hungry horde

Technically with all the food I have to SHARE with others; I should definately be atleast 2 or 3kgs lighter

[~Trish~]

I've forgotten what food tastes like LOL!

I really don't get time to eat much more than my 3 meals a day (I usually sneak morning tea in somewhere though ), but I've found my weight has been dropping off. I've always had a fast metabolism though and I do walk to and from school twice a day (a 10 minute walk uphill on the way there), so I'm sure that has helped the weight loss!

I do think you might be onto something with your theory though Bath

[helle]

true true! totally agree!
What I don't get those, is with all the amounts of running around, lugging around these babies of ours in and our of cars, up onto change tables etc... why the hell doesn't it even itself out!?

[~Kim~]

I reckon you might be right Bath....there's so much else going on that you eat absent mindedly.

i make sure all the other jobs are done and the kids are fed and occupied in the morning before I make mine. It's one of my few pleasures of the day.

[Astrid]

Good point Bath. I also think though it is also to do with our mummy instinct of not wasting food. I would be much lighter if the girls just ate their crusts!