3 MAIN REASONS WHY YOU FEEL GUILTY LEAVING FOOD ON YOUR PLATE⁣

...And why you might be finding it hard to stop eating when you're full.

We’ve all been there. 🍽⁣

“I’m not hungry but I feel like I have to finish this.”⁣

“I only have a few bites left, I might as well kill it.”⁣

“I shouldn’t waste this so I’ll eat it even though I’m full.”⁣

“I’m getting really stuffed but I’ll just finish it so I don’t hurt their feelings.”⁣

“I don’t know when I’ll be able to eat this again so I’ll just eat it all now.”⁣

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Food can be used as leftovers, reheated for another meal or snack, given to a friend, or even used in addition to another meal. Yet out of habit, we eat an entire plate of food, regardless of how full we are or the size of the portion because of the scarcity mindsets above.⁣

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1) YOU'RE AFRAID OF HURTING SOMONE'S FEELINGS:

We can clean our plates for fear of hurting someone’s feelings because they made something for us. So we put our own feelings aside and harm ourselves i...