eating ideas from a diet infomercial
Posted: Tue Oct 26, 2010 4:50 pm
So I was on a trip and the hotel television had absolutly nothing on but infomercials (and qvc type programs).
One of the infomercials caught my attention for a weight loss product. The idea behind the product was a powder you sprinkled on all your food that activated the brain's smell sensorys (and probably other things) to make you feel fuller faster. Now I know there are no miricle products out there and this was just another gimmic. But I have decided to try my own version of their "miracle technology".
If the brain feels full faster from smelling food I decided I would just take time to really smell every bite I take. I also am slowing down my eating and really savoring each bite and chewing more then i normally would. I added to that a large glass of water during my meal that is helping with my fullness factor.
So far it's really working for me. But i think the trick is really slowing down. I used to be a person who would just shovel down food as fast as it would go. It was especially hard to slow down when I was hungry and thats when my tendancy to overeat and not recognise that i was full half a plate ago.
I don't have a very keen sense of smell but I am trying this method anyways. Who needs questionable chemicals in my food when just slowing down and listening to your body works better?
One of the tricks I learned from my stint at weight watchers really stuck with me. They taught about this point in eating your meal where your body does a little sigh when it is satisfied. Most of the time it's hard to spot but once I started watching for it I could tell I did a little sigh often times before my plate was finished. Having grown up in a clean your plate household there are starving children in X country this has been one of the hardest things for me to change. And once I am done I usually need to either push my plate away or have it removed so I don't continue to pick at my food.
One of the infomercials caught my attention for a weight loss product. The idea behind the product was a powder you sprinkled on all your food that activated the brain's smell sensorys (and probably other things) to make you feel fuller faster. Now I know there are no miricle products out there and this was just another gimmic. But I have decided to try my own version of their "miracle technology".
If the brain feels full faster from smelling food I decided I would just take time to really smell every bite I take. I also am slowing down my eating and really savoring each bite and chewing more then i normally would. I added to that a large glass of water during my meal that is helping with my fullness factor.
So far it's really working for me. But i think the trick is really slowing down. I used to be a person who would just shovel down food as fast as it would go. It was especially hard to slow down when I was hungry and thats when my tendancy to overeat and not recognise that i was full half a plate ago.
I don't have a very keen sense of smell but I am trying this method anyways. Who needs questionable chemicals in my food when just slowing down and listening to your body works better?
One of the tricks I learned from my stint at weight watchers really stuck with me. They taught about this point in eating your meal where your body does a little sigh when it is satisfied. Most of the time it's hard to spot but once I started watching for it I could tell I did a little sigh often times before my plate was finished. Having grown up in a clean your plate household there are starving children in X country this has been one of the hardest things for me to change. And once I am done I usually need to either push my plate away or have it removed so I don't continue to pick at my food.