Good Habits, Bad habits.

Don't waste food. You can get food enough for your meal only. For any reason, we should not waste food.

Congrats in losing more than 10 pounds! That means your secret is working (it's not really a secret now lol). It's not really a bad habit cause we are the same. I think it just means that we are getting older. Remember when we were at our younger age, we can finish 2-4 plates every meal and we still feel that we haven't eaten anything? :P ... But now, I can't even finish one plate and most of the time I give the leftovers to my bf. You should give your leftovers to your pet or bf rather than throwing it in the garbage. Or maybe, eat it later as your snack. Just prepare enough food every meal and don't over-stuff your plate and end up throwing leftovers in the trash. By the way, small frequent meals helps in dieting too! ^^

I am 19 years old and eat abnormally much food, but still, I weight only 62 Kg.. My metabolism is guilty for that, but I`m happy because I can enjoy food as much as I want and I do not seem to get fatter :)

I dont think you should eat everything on you plate if you are not hungry. When you start to fill full, stop eating. I myself love food but I tend to eat too much, there for I have to use a smaller plate, in my head it looks like alot of food but its not. Also, drink a glass or 2 of water before eating, it helps fill you up there for you wont eat as much. But I dont think its a bad habit, to not eat all your food.

I have the same dilemma before but since I realized that it's not a good thing to do, I deliberately force my self to change the habit. Here is the thing, just because we do not finished everything on the plate it means we are going to lose some weight. You did not indicate how much food are you putting on your plate so I cannot really visualize. But I understand you. I've been there. What I did was that I get small portions of food and finished everything. I also kept reminding myself that there are other people in the planet who are dying of hunger, and I am lucky to have food on my plate. It does not trigger me to eat everything, but it does remind me that I should just get what I can finish. I know you can break that habit. It may take some time but no goal is hard to reach if you focus on it. I am rooting for you, you can do it.

You could try keeping leftovers. You have no idea what kind of epic meals I can rack up with a week's worth of leftovers. With some bread (baguette being the quintessence of bread for us frenchies), you can make a sandwich with virtually anything, steak, chicken, fish ect. and all kinds of vegetables too. You could also just make a lot less food, and be more hungrier all the time, so that you appreciate your food more and never leave anything. I personally often finish my plate, so I don't really know the feeling, I can even eat all the fast food/pizza/whatever I ordered even if I feel like I'm going to crumble under my own weight. Somehow in all this I'm not overweight, but I don't know.

It's good to know you have achieve something with what you are doing, I congratulate you on that . I don't thing it's a bad habit for it is only your means of losing weight, rather than not really taking any food and starving yourself which is already bad. In my opinion, you don't need to get rid of it if you really want to lose weight. Just put the left over in a plastic and give it to the dogs outside your office .

Hello and welcome to mylot :D. I eat everything in the plate, but I understand what you are saying. If you feel like its a bad habit and want to stop, try to keep the leftovers for later or serve less food on the plate each time. I lost weight by serving less on my plate whenever I eat, and eating at fixed hours to avoid overeating :).

I have it with tea/drinks.. for some reason I can't finish the last bit in the mug.. or cup.. it doesn't matter if it's a large mug or small cup the last bit I can't drink. I don't know if it's a habit, perhaps it just started at a certain point I found out the last bit is mostly cold? Does it matter to you if you don't finish the whole plate? Why not just using a smaller plate so less food on it? Might be, since you been on a diet, this is or once was a way for you to show you are able not to finish everything? I would surely not have sleepless nights about that. Also don't think it's a bad habit.

You can do one thing , dont put too much food in your plate when you serve your food, this way you can eat it all without any regrets. I used to eat all food in my plate also, but now I am eatting less , so, I put just a little amount in my plate, if I feel like having more I put little bit more . Is not good to through the food away ,.

Just eat well, be healthy ! always think of good food , fresh fruits and vegetables ... the best ! :)

I don't think it's unhealthy. If you're okay with this, I wouldn't consider this a really bad habit. My mom does the same, too, but in her case, it isn't because of weight-losing, but she always does this. Sometimes we chuckle over this, but that's all. My bad habits are chewing my nails, biting my lips, twisting my hair, shaking my leg and other stuff. Mostly because I'm either nervous or just don't do what to do with my hands.

I don't know what age you actually are, but based on your profile you are 27. I only have this kind of problem when i was little like 3 to 6 years old when i can't finish anything i eat, maybe because i can't seem to calculate how much would i eat at the time. Because nowadays, i take and eat only the amount i think i would finish so it wouldn't be a waste of foods. My advise is just like what i did, by taking out only small amount of food if you don't know how much can you finish at the time. Because if you didn't get enough, you can always take out a little more so satisfy your needs without wasting any food. Try it out and maybe in the future you would know the exact amount you should eat at a time. My last advice for you is never eat until your stomach is full but only according to your needs since drinking water after that would finish the job.

I have heard about doing that somewhere...leaving a little food on your plate. It was for dieting purposes, but for some reason I seem to think it was an actual lifestyle change article that I was reading. It makes perfect sense because I think a lot of us - myself included, have the tenancy to force ourselves to eat everything on our plates, just because it's there and seems like the right thing to do. Clear your plate and you are finished. Rather than just stop eating when you aren't hungry any more. I would assume it must take a lot of will power to leave food on your plate. Especially if you are eating something that tastes really good. I think I would have a hard time doing it. Either that or I would probably give myself larger portions to start with so that when I left something on my plate I would have at least eaten myself full first lol But that would just be my tricky self trying to dupe myself!