I read an article today about a new way to diet which suggests using your opposite hand to eat. This simple trick, the authors say, will slow you down and put an end to eating out of habit. The study tested people eating popcorn at a movie theater. Those subjects who ate due to "automaticity," (without thinking about what they were actually doing) ate buckets of old, stale popcorn. The study concludes that by picking up our fork with our less dominant hand, we can change our old patterns of eating behavior and lose some weight.
The whole idea of changing old patterns of behavior for the new year resonates strongly with me. What are the other old, stale buckets of popcorn in our lives, patterns of behavior...ways we think about the world and life...that we mindlessly "consume" without giving them a second thought? The beginning of a new year is a great time to break those patterns and to live life to the fullest, in the way it is meant to be lived.
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