How to Reduce Your Food Intake and Still Be Satisfied

I've learned a while back, to effectively lose weight, one of the most important things you must do is reduce your food intake!

This, in combination with an exercise regimen (consult your doctor first so I don't get sued), is the most important aspect of any weight loss program.

No matter what the weight-loss-fad-of-the-month says, if you keep packing yourself full, to the point of indigestion, and constipation, at every meal, you're gonna have trouble losing weight.

So here's the dilemma: How do folks like me, who like bread, love donuts, and bow before croissants, lower our overall food intake, without the mental anguish?

It's simple. Chew slower. You'll love how much this will help with your weight loss goals.

I learned this from a school nurse several years ago during a weight loss presentation.

According to the method of making weight loss easier, taught to me, it takes the body approximately twenty minutes to recognize food consumption from the moment of initial taste.

The concept of 'full' is a myth. It's a widely accepted myth. But it's a myth just the same. So many of us have trouble with weight loss because we're conditioned to get full.

Eating until you're full is actually quite harmful. It leads to indigestion, weight gain, and an inability to rest properly while asleep, due to the digestive system's efforts to process food while you sleep.

This applies no matter what kind of food you eat. If you eat too much weight loss will be difficult if not impossible!

It's a simple process to reduce your food intake and still not leave the table hungry.

First take smaller bites.

Many of us are very accustomed to gorging the food in our mouths.

Don't believe me? Go to your local fast food restaurant and watch the other customers. Just observe.

Next chew the food at least fifty times slowly.

Resist the normal tendency to swallow soon.

This way the ptyalin in your saliva is getting mixed in well. Ptyalin is an alkaloid that actually begins the digestion process for the starches in your diet.

Finally remember to put the fork down in between bites.

This will assist you in being aware of just how fast you normally eat.

I've actually been quite gratified on just one piece of French toast for breakfast! For those of you who may not be that tall, it may not seem such a feat, but for those who are fully-grown like me, it'll leave you quite amazed.

There are other additional benefits to eating slower too, like needing less food in the first place, therefore saving money on food purchases.

And my favorite benefit is that of being seen as having good table manners.