Adopting the tapas mentality can really help you when you are trying to plan meals or when you are simply rummaging through the refrigerator, looking for something to eat. Think: little tastes. It's simple concept, but what it means to you is trying to get your body to a healthy place. Take a few bites of this, a few bites of that. Notice each taste, move on to another, and when you've eaten a few good bites of a few good things ,stop eating. You've had enough. You are supremely satisfied...as long as your brain isn't telling your stomach that it is waiting for the main course. WHAT MAIN COURSE? WHY A MAIN COURSE? Little tastes are much more exciting,surprising, mysterious even.
The idea of indulging in little tastes to fortify midday hunger is popular in many Mediterranean cultures.In Italy,the antipassto is a mosaic of beautiful foods for a midday meal. In France, the hors d'oeuvre not only precedes a meal but is meant to prepare all the sences by being visually lovely as well as delicious. In the Middle East - the meze platter serves a similar purpose to tapas- simple, satisfying snacks that sometimes stand in for a more formal meal.
Just think about the possibilities for you. You can move toward your ideal weight by indulging in little tastes of goat cheese,tangy ceviche,perfectly cooked mouthfuls of tender beef or pork, morsels of chicken tossed with juicy grapes and crunchy walnuts, a few spoonfuls of marinated white beans, a spicy tomato salsa on a piece of crispy bread, slices of Spanish sausage, roasted peppers stuffed with cheese and drizzled with olive oil-each little dish plays into the whole experience of taste and is a whole experience of its own, whispering of another land, of exotic cultures, but also of the passionate experience you have immediately as you taste!!!
Try it!! You may fall in love with it, as I have!!!
I love it! But my problem is learning how to savor just one bite. At this point I'm better off just skipping it than having a little taste for most indulgent foods because I can't stop. I have kind of an all-or-nothing mentality in all aspects of my life, and as you can see, it's spilled over into the way I eat as well. But at least I've finally gotten to where I can abstain. I used to have absolutely no control. But thanks to tracking, I've finally started to rein in a little and learn to be consious and aware of what and how much I'm eating.
ReplyDeleteOh, and I was going to post today too, and you beat me to it! I guess I'll have to wait till tomorrow or Tue so we don't look like we're having a posting war. :)
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