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Social pressure eating - when one won't hurt becomes five

Social pressure eating - when one won't hurt becomes five

People push food with lines like 'one won't hurt' and 'aunty made it specially,' and that pressure turns one helping into five. Pre-eat a little, keep one kind 'no, thank you' ready, and log what you do eat in Burnie so your deficit, not the aunty, decides.

14 Jul 2026 · Burnie Academy
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You sit at a wedding table. Aunty fills your plate again. 'One more, it won't hurt,' she smiles. A friend slides a gulab jamun toward you. 'Live a little,' he says. This is not the build-a-smart-party-plate trick (that is a different page). This is the people-pressure itself: the 'one won't hurt' trap, kind ways to say no, and the Burnie move that you log what you eat so the deficit, not the aunty, decides.

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