My oldest son is 14 now.
A young man.
It doesn’t seem five minutes ago since he was a little boy.
One of the best things about Facebook is getting daily reminders of all the great memories of the past.
One that pops up for me every year is his 8th birthday.
At his request, we’d taken him to Fazenda in Manchester.
An all-you-can-eat Brazilian style rodizio restaurant.
You help yourself to all the non meat stuff from a salad bar……..
And the waiters bring round as much meat as you could possibly want.
I remember I had to stop him eating that night.
He’d eaten nearly as much as me.
Considerably more than his step mum.
I was worried he was going to cause himself some damage.
He kept telling me “I’m still hungry”.
He passed out in the car on the way home.
Sweating and pale.
He definitely couldn’t have been hungry at the point I stopped him.
But he thought he was.
As we often all do when we’re not actually hungry.
It’s super easy in this day and age to eat considerably more food than we need to.
And give ourselves a variety of justifications.
Hunger.
Not wanting to waste it (even though it would usually last for another time).
That “It’s a treat”.
That, if we’ve paid for it, we don’t want to waste our money.
Or we want to get our “money’s worth”.
Ultimately, it’s our life and our body.
We can put as much food into it as we like.
Who would I be to tell you otherwise?
But the justifications we give are often worth questioning.
We’re probably not as hungry as we’re telling ourselves.
We don’t need to treat ourselves with food, we’re not a dog.
And if we do it on a regular basis, it’s probably not really a treat whatever is happening is it?
And the overeating in order to get some better definition of money’s worth doesn’t really make any sense (I can guarantee you – with an actual Money Back Guarantee – that the life changing value you get from our programme with be worth every penny –> www.myrise.co.uk/apply) .
If I offered to pay you to gain weight, you wouldn’t take it, would you?
So why do it to get marginally better value for money you’ve already spent?
Again, eat as you’d like.
Just maybe question those justifications for doing it past a certain point.
Much love,
Jon ‘Meat sweats’ Hall
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