subject: Learn How Your Dining Room Table Can Help You to Lose Weight [print this page] Learn How Your Dining Room Table Can Help You to Lose Weight
A really useful technique which many of my clients use to help them to lose weight is to pick one place in their home to eat their meals. Then when they sit down they turn off the television and eat their food almost as if they were a food critic. What that means is they take there time to actually eat the food and use all of there senses to really appreciate the food which they are eating.If you begin to do this yourself you may then begin to find that during meals that you will actually stop eating when you feel full. The reason for this is because if you do eat fast, which many people do, you will never get that feeling of fullness. This is because your body does have the time to give you the signal that you are full.However if you begin to eat like a food critic then because you will be eating much slower you will then also be aware of that feeling of fullness. Then when you do feel full put down your knife and folk and stop eating. As a grown up you now no longer have to eat everything on your plate.A good thing to point out when you are doing this is that you do not drink any fluids, just concentrate on the food. If you do drink fluids when you are eating then you may feel full and stop eating but it may not have been a true feeling of fullness. You may have just felt full because of the fluids that you took in. Then because it was not a true feeling of fullness you may then begin to feel hungry soon after and eat something which would probably be a snack.You can even take this technique further by also limiting your snacks to this one place in your house. When people eat snacks, whether its crisps, sweets or chocolate they will generally eat them in a place which is convenient. So if they are watching television they may during the adverts go and get something to eat.If this is something that you do yourself then what you need to do is to make snacking something which isn't convenient. If you want a snack turn off the television and go and sit at the place where you eat your main meals and eat the snack as if you were a food critic.If you do this then you may begin to discover that there will be times in which you tell yourself that you are not going to have that snack because you will miss something. If you do have the snack then you will probably find that you do eat less of it because you're focused on eating it.So why not try this technique over this next week and notice the changes that it can have on your eating habits. Maybe it will start to make you think more about food and help to reduce the amount of snacking you may do between meals.
