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.
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ReplyDeleteHa! 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.
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.
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ReplyDeleteEveryone who knows me knows that to reduce injury I must reduce stomach surface area.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the tip. You have sown the seeds of your own destruction.