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Last thing my (and, probably, your) parents used to say now.

Promise.

And this is probably the one I heard the most.

After all, it was the eighties.

Bob Geldoff and pals were busy “saving” Africa and the videos of starving children were a regular feature.

Any time I would go to leave any of my food, or say I didn’t want it, my mum would say “There are starving kids in Africa who would love that”.

To which I would, invariably, think “Why don’t you post it to them then?”

Or “I don’t think me over eating would make them feel any better”.

But, I get it.

They were bought up in the shadow of the war.

Rationing still a thing.

“Waste not, want not” my Granny used to say.

However old we are, our parents probably had some level of aversion to “wasting food”.

And, of course, I’m not going to suggest we should purposefully waste food.

But we could, perhaps, benefit from questioning some of our thoughts around that?

The need to “finish off” what’s on our plate or in the serving dish when it could easily go in the fridge for another meal.

Or part of one if “there’s not a whole portion left”.

Maybe the “finishing off what’s on the kids’ plates”?

At that point, all else being equal, it’s either going in the fridge, the bin or on our hips and waist.

What about the “getting our money’s worth” when we’re at a buffet, on an all inclusive holiday, or similar?

Or finishing off the entirety of a meal served to you when it’s a more than sufficient portion for your considerably bigger other half?

You probably wouldn’t gain extra fat if I paid you, so why do it to get marginally better value out of money you’ve already spent?

As always, we can do what we like.

But, perhaps, we might benefit from questioning some of these thoughts?

Much love,

Jon ‘We’re approaching the 20th anniversary of the 20th anniversary of Live Aid’ Hall

Jon Hall
Jon Hall

When not helping people to transform their lives and bodies, Jon can usually be found either playing with his kids or taxi-ing them around. If you'd like to find out more about what we do at RISE then enter your details in the box to the right or bottom of this page or at myrise.co.uk - this is the same way every single one of the hundreds who've described this as "one of the best decisions I've ever made" took their first step.