Tasting counts

Are you a nibbler while you cook? Be careful, sampling adds calories too! If you sample the pasta to see if it's done or taste a piece of bread while you are preparing your plate, or licking the bowl and sucking icing off your fingers and wondering while you can't seem to shed any pounds then stop and take self inventory of what you are actually putting in your mouth. Even when the kids are done with their food and you are irritated because they claimed they were starving and yet left half their food untouched and you start in on what they left behind it still counts. Dump it, push it away, walk away! When you are cooking immediately put dishes in the sink or dishwasher so you won't be tempted to peel off the melted cheese left in the pan or keep a damp paper towel handy so no yummy goodness of what you are making makes it's way into you mouth! How do I know this? I have been guilty of it all and until you are 100% conscious of every bite that goes into your mouth you will never reach your desired weight. I can't tel you how many people have said to me "I eat right and I exercise but the scale isn't budging!" Maybe because they didn't think that donut at work counted just because someone offered it on a whim or the three forkfulls of someone elses entree they shoveled in their mouth at the new restaurant last night after they finished their own counted either. Hmmmm