Weight Loss Made Easy

If you stuff your mouth full of food, you’re not tasting it all. Take smaller bites and chew slowly. This is a funny phrase for me because I always told my kids when they were eating to “take small bites and chew good”. I told them that so they wouldn’t choke, but it works for weight loss too.

If you can’t taste every bite, then you can’t enjoy your food. If you’re not enjoying your food then your body will think it didn’t have enough and will want more. Then you eat more because your body no longer knows when it’s full.

Another good reason to eat slowly is that your body doesn’t know it’s full for up to 20 minutes after you’ve started eating. The slower you eat, the less you’ll eat by the time your body tells you it’s had enough.

There’s also the saliva factor. You need saliva in your mouth to break the food down. It takes a couple minutes for the saliva to start working. If you take your time getting started with eating and eat slower, more of your food will be digested easier.

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