By Leo Babauta
While I’ve learned to eat much healthier over the last six or seven years, one of my biggest challenges has been overeating on social occasions.
There are holidays like Thanksgiving and Christmas, but there are many more: my kids’ birthday parties, going out to dinner with my wife Eva, get-togethers with friends, social gatherings of business colleagues, drinking with best friends.
I’ve always tended to overeat, because:
I am distracted by conversation and so I eat mindlessly; and unlike at home, where I’ve created a healthy eating environment, I tend to be surrounded at these occasions by boatloads of tempting but unhealthy foods.
I’ve gotten better recently, though, and have been teaching myself healthier... More...
