Monday, March 13, 2006

Master Fob's Miracle Diet

I've started a new diet. It's quite simple: I chew my food. Besides forcing me to slow down enough to realize I'm full before I heap on three more servings, chewing also burns calories and prolongs the enjoyment of each bite. It's a bit counterintuitive, I know, to think you can enjoy food more by eating less of it--I've long been a believer in the If It's Good Shove In As Much As You Can theory--but letting that chocolate-dipped cheesecake bite sit on your tongue for a couple seconds before swallowing actually is not such a bad thing. It still takes mental exertion to remind myself to chew, but I know the diet is working because only a day after I started my brother commented that I looked thinner.

The next step: breathing between bites.

4 comments:

Th. said...

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Ha! Good luck with that!

I often try this. But some things, like caramels, insist on slipping down and calling on comrades to storm on down behind. It's frustrating.

Anonymous said...

That is a miracle diet. That testimonial of your resutls is incredible. After one day? I think I'm going to try this. I'm serious.

Cricket said...

someone else is on to your idea, and already making money!

Tolkien Boy said...

Everyone who knows me knows that to reduce injury I must reduce stomach surface area.

Thanks for the tip. You have sown the seeds of your own destruction.