"Create your Weight Release Mindset Zone"
(and stay there through the holidays)
This Saturday our class will be exploring:
-the 3 common assumptions people make heading into the holidays that lead to weight gain
-the 2 key steps to insure your successful weight release through the holidays
-the 1 powerful attitude that allows you to come out of this season a winner--and better equiped to handle all of the holiday seasons to come.
9-10:15 Saturday November 3rd-- only 15 dollars
Click onto link to sign up for this single online class!
http://www.shiftweightmastery.com/satclass.html
Hey Shifters,
“Look at this, Marcel Proust was writing about the three bite rule
long before you were honey.” My husband, the professor of English said. He showed me the following passage I’m about
to share with you.
The French Novelist, in his book series, Remembrance of Things Past, certainly did write about the
interesting mouth phenomenon that happens—what we at Shift call the 3-Bite
Rule-- as you take the first bites of something delicious. In his writing he
elegantly proves that if you truly pay attention, the sensation of each bite
diminishes to the point of being able to stop having gotten all the “mouth fun”
out of the thing you were eating after a mere 3 bites.
This is what Proust wrote, describing drinking tea and eating a
French sponge cookie/cake called a Madeleine—notice how his mouth goes through
a whole array of experiences…brilliant!
BITE
ONE: I raised to my lips a
spoonful of the tea in which I had soaked a morsel of the cake. No sooner had
the warm liquid mixed with the crumbs touched my palate than a shudder ran
through me and I stopped, intent upon the extraordinary thing that was
happening to me. An exquisite pleasure had invaded my senses, something
isolated, detached, with no suggestion of its origin. And at once the
vicissitudes of life had become indifferent to me, its disasters innocuous, its
brevity illusory - this new sensation having had on me the effect which love
has of filling me with a precious essence; or rather this essence was not in me
it was me. I had ceased now to
feel mediocre, contingent, mortal. Whence could it have come to me, this
all-powerful joy? I sensed that it was connected with the taste of the tea and
the cake, but that it infinitely transcended those savours, could, no, indeed,
be of the same nature. Whence did it come? What did it mean? How could I seize
and apprehend it? (Whoa, I would be on to my third cookie in the time he
takes to describe just one bite!)
BITE
TWO: I drink a
second mouthful, in which I find nothing more than in the first…(see
the mouth party is calming down)
BITE
THREE-- then a
third, which gives me rather less than the second. It is time to stop; the potion is losing it magic. (See
three bites and you’re out!!) It is plain
that the truth I am seeking lies not in the cup but in myself. The drink has
called it into being, but does not know it, and can only repeat indefinitely,
with a progressive diminution of strength, the same message which I cannot
interpret, though I hope at least to be able to call it forth again and to find
it there presently, intact and at my disposal, for my final enlightenment. I
put down the cup and examine my own mind. It alone can discover the truth.
Well said Marcel, I couldn’t have put it better myself! So there you have the 3-bite rule written by
a French Novelist over 100 years ago!
Enjoy applying the 3-bite rule this week as you head through the
last few days of Halloween candy—that’s all you need is 3 bites and get rid of
the rest. Or better yet skip buying
candy altogether and just give out copies of this passage to kids as they come
to the door.
Happy Halloween I may just decide to go as Marcel Proust! Or maybe I’ll go as the MadeleineJ
Oxox Rita
PS.
Join us for our Online Saturday Meeting this Saturday!
"Create your Weight Release Mindset Zone"
(and stay there through the holidays)
This Saturday our class will be exploring:
-the 3 common assumptions people make heading into the holidays that lead to weight gain
-the 2 key steps to insure your successful weight release through the holidays
-the 1 powerful attitude that allows you to come out of this season a winner--and better equiped to handle all of the holiday seasons to come.
9-10:15 Saturday November 3rd-- only 15 dollars
Click onto link to sign up for this single online class!
http://www.shiftweightmastery.com/satclass.html
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