Slow Down
Your Eating
Take Time
To Relish and Enjoy Your
Food
You might be surprised to learn that simply
slowing down the rate that you eat your food at can have a
profound affect on your body weight.
The longer it takes you to eat
your food, the less food you will need to eat to feel
satisfied.
There are some simple techniques
that can get you out of a bad habit of eating too fast and
consequently eating too much.
Try to chew your food a little
longer before you swallow it as this will help with the
digestion of the food and the extra time that it takes you to
chew will also help you to feel more satisfied without having
to have such a large quantity.
Don't load up your fork or spoon
with more food until you have finished eating the food that is
already in your mouth. One simple way of doing this is to
actually put down your fork or spoon until you ready to pick up
the next piece of food to eat.
It breaks the habit of over
eating from eating too fast. If you look at the way that French
people in particular eat as a whole, you should notice that not
only do they have smaller portions of food but they take a lot
longer to eat their food. They are doing two things that help
them to stay slim. Eating smaller amounts and taking longer to
eat those smaller amounts.
You will find that once you start
eating a little slower you will actually get to enjoy the food
a lot more. You will have more time to savor the tastes in the
food.
It takes a little while after
eating food for your body to register the fact that it has had
enough and many people overeat when they eat too fast simply
because they believe they are still hungry. You should never
eat until you are full; rather eat until you feel comfortable
that you have had enough.
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