EAT UNTIL YOU’RE NO LONGER HUNGRY, NOT FULL
There is a very fine distinction between feeling not hungry and feeling full, and it took me a while to learn to notice it. To avoid overeating you want to leave the table when you no longer feel hungry, when the food is beginning to not taste as good as it did originally and you’re just continuing to eat it because it’s there. You don’t want to wait until you feel full. There’s a biological reason for this. It takes the brain about 15 to 20 minutes before it realizes that the stomach is full, and then it sends the message to stop eating. That 15- to 20-minute lag time is what keeps a lot of extra pounds on our trouble-prone areas—the belly and lower back in men and the waist, hips, and thighs in women.
If you stop eating when you’re no longer hungry, in about 15 to 20 minutes you will feel full. If I wait until I actually feel full before leaving the table, in about 15 to 20 minutes it’s couch time for me. I feel really bloated and tired and just want to lie down for a long nap. This is a big sign that you’ve overeaten and that you’ve overwhelmed your body’s digestive process with the food intake. It doesn’t have energy left over to do anything other than try to handle the food overload, so it signals you to take a rest.
You shouldn’t feel exhausted after eating. Food is supposed to energize us. You’ll feel so much better after eating, and maintaining a lean weight is a lot easier.
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Many people has the habit of eating till they’re full, really full that it stretches their stomach and makes them uncomfortable afterwards.
I was like that before, now I know better.
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So true Bryan. I think that’s why all you can eat buffets make you feel so drowsy, bloated and uncomfortable once you leave the restaurant
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