The generation that was told to eat everything on their plate find leaving food very tricky.These suggestions from your childhood are persistent and powerful.

So when you go to the fridge and see the remains of a meal, there is a powerful urge to eat it, to avoid waste. Don't tidy your fridge by eating up the contents. Feeling guilty about waste can interfere with our goal to avoid overeating.

So what can we do? Well, hypnosis can embed new suggestions, permitting you to throw food away. In hypnosis, you can learn to always leave your plate half eaten. Breaking the instruction to eat everything up needs a bit of support. However, many of us feel strongly about food waste. Hypnosis can help you develop new habits, simple things like cooking smaller quantities so that you get just the right portion size. You may feel that to be eco-friendly, you can't use the oven to heat up or bake just a small portion, so you might cook a bit more and freeze the rest. You might keep a dog - scraps and bones are apparently the ideal diet! What might be the best approach for you?

But your belly is not the bin. Don't fill it with rubbish.