Buy Walking VideosYou Can Eat Anything You Want – Part II
Lucky for me, Maggie Mason reads Esquire magazine. She found an excellent quote from Tom Hanks.
Tom Hanks spoke frankly about gaining sixty pounds for the movie Castaway:
“Eating everything you want is not that much fun. When you live a life with no boundaries, there’s less joy. If you can eat anything you want to, what’s the fun in eating anything you want to?â€
When I have made my eating far too restrictive, I fantasize about being able to eat anything I want in huge quantities. If I’m not careful, this turns into a huge binge in which I actually do eat whatever I want in huge quantities.
The only solution I’ve been able to find is to eat whatever I want in SMALL quantities to prevent that binge. Tom Hanks is right. Living a life with no boundaries DOES create LESS joy. There are very real consequences to living life with no boundaries and they cause real pain. Learning to control myself has been the most joyful thing I could have ever done.
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June 2nd, 2006 at 6:37 am
I find eating smaller amounts helps me. My husband brought home Chinese food at 15 points a cup it was two points more than I had. I figured the points for one and ate that and munched and enjoyed that little piece. I ended up with 12 points I could use on other things.
June 2nd, 2006 at 1:28 pm
I meant 10 points
June 14th, 2006 at 5:13 am
A play on words……….
Eating everything you want is not much fun but eating ANYTHING you want is fun.