Remember the song, “Rose Colored Glasses?”

How would you know if your food choices
were colored by the same glasses?

For example, we think we KNOW the reasons
for our food consumption and habits.
-When we’re hungry, we know it.
-When we’re thirsty, we know it.
-When we’re stuffed, we know it.

When something tastes good, we know that too.

Actually all of these things we THINK we know
are colored by the glasses we wear.

Now my friend, Marilyn Levin, says it may not
be rose colored glasses that creates your food
choices. It might be glasses colored by scarcity
that creates them instead.

Marilyn says that most of us view our world
from a Scarcity Paradigm. We never have enough
time, not enough money, not enough love, not
enough sleep, etc. BTW, a paradigm is just an
entrenched point of view that you perceive as
reality.

Just the other day I was running errands with
healthy snacks in my purse and yet the fast
food scarcity from my youth popped in. In six
hours I had eaten 4 burgers, and three cokes.

[You may not believe this but it's true, fast
food was a LUXURY item for me due to its expense
until I was around 24 years old.]

I interviewed Marilyn this week because she
is able to move people to notice that they are
wearing glasses that are colored by scarcity.
She asks that we wear glasses colored by
“Sufficiency” instead.

In her interview she explains how scarcity is
directly tied to our cultural trend of overeating.
Listen now-
http://www.foodpowers.com/marilyn_levin.html

Thinking about my ridiculous binge and what
Marilyn had to say, I was inspired to make
this silly little video as a reminder-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIiTjfg_Aa0

One person’s burger is another’s paradigm,
Nerissa Oden
http://www.foodpowers.com

PS – Watch John Conlee sing Rose Colored Glasses
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dzINc8fTDhE