Insights – Tips To Lose Weight Easily

Eating more slowly can have a profound effect on losing weight. Dieticians are agreeing that the rate we ingest food has a lot to do with how much we feel we need. Speedy eaters have a tendency to eat bigger meals than slow eaters, according to recent research. If we eat until we’re satisfied, we keep consuming more food when we’re gulping it down than when we take it steadily.

You can personally empirically test this. At dinner tonight, eat as much as you want very quickly. On a different day, enjoy the exact same dinner, but this time spend at least twenty seconds with each forkful in your mouth. The first meal will probably be larger than the second. But the best thing is you’ll feel satisfied for longer after the slower, smaller meal.

We often eat too much when we’re speed eating, because we haven’t given the food time to reach our stomach. Putting too much food in at one go then makes our stomach feel distended and uncomfortable very soon afterwards.

But there is another reason to keep food in the mouth for longer. Well chewed food assists dieters with weight loss, as the whole digestive process is then optimised.

How much we eat can be strongly influenced by how we actually eat. The best way to dine is sitting at the table and concentrating on our food. Then we can eat more graciously, and put our cutlery down when we’ve had enough.

Maybe it’s also because sitting at the table makes dining more of an occasion, so we don’t rush things so much. We definitely experience more digestive discomfort if we throw our food down in front of the telly!

It’s also the case that we eat faster if we’ve allowed ourselves to get too hungry. Aim to prevent this by planning meals in advance, and eat smaller meals more frequently. Sweets and chocolate give instant gratification, but the effect doesn’t last. But five or six mini-meals aren’t always possible when we’re at work. That’s when we need to take pieces of fruit, packets of seeds or nuts or perhaps some oatcakes to have throughout the day.

So the essence of this article is that we’re seeing a strong correlation between the time food remains in the mouth, and how sated we feel following consumption. Savouring food and masticating well might just be the easiest way to cut our daily calorific intake.

(C) Scott Edwards. Navigate to WeightLossDietWar.com for intelligent ideas on losing weight stomach and stomach fat loss.