Does Lack Thinking Make you Gain Weight?

The subject of lack thinking and what it is exactly is covered by Dr Michael Beckwith in The Secret. In short it is that may of us tend to have thought patterns that perceive lack; like there is never enough money, or never enough oil, or whatever it may be.

There are some who feel this way as it relates to food, and lack thinking with regard to food is a powerful way to increase ones body size.

I will give a specific example. I generally like the fast food resturant Chick-Fil-A for several reasons, and recently I ordered one of their chargrilled chicken salads. The salad comes with a pouch of croutons and another pouch of sunflower seed kernels. If you check the nutrition information you will find that the salad has 180 calories, the croutons 70 and the kernels 80, for a grand total of 330 calories, which is not a lot for someone on a 2000 calorie diet.

But then there is the salad dressing packet. . . . now sure you can get the non-fat dressing or go with no dressing; but what if your favorite happens to be Blue Cheese? The blue cheese dressing packet contains 375 calories by itself, more then the rest of the salad put together!

Now here is where lack thinking comes in. If one thinks this way they will automatically assume that the entire packet is barely enough or not quite enough to cover the salad, and they would thus use all of it without a second thought. Or worse they could just decide to not have their favorite dressing because they know they would never be able to burn that many calories off.

I do not like either of those choices. Here's a third. Use half of it. That adds 188 calories to the salad, and I found that half of the packet was enough to have enough dressing for the salad. Now the total is 330 + 188 = 518, which is still not a bad amount of calories for a 2000 calorie diet. I think I would skip the waffle fries, but that is just me :-)

If one has lack thinking when it comes to food, they will likely eat more than they need if an effort to fight off "not enough". It is time for some of us to change our thinking on this.

Joseph