Most true experts now agree that weight loss is about portion control. It takes about fifteen minutes for the body to recognize that you have eaten something. In many European countries weight gain is not as much of a problem as in the US, and it is characteristic that they will take longer for meals. The average time that people spend eating at a McDonald’s in the US is fourteen minutes. They don’t give the body time to even realize that they have eaten something. In France the time spent at a McDonald’s is a bit better at 22 minutes. Taking these facts into account, try this formula:
- Only eat when you are hungry.
- When you finally do get hungry, prepare as little as one-third as much as you usually do for a meal.
- Eat that and wait fifteen minutes from the first bite.
- Check to see if you are still hungry. If you are, prepare one-half as much as you prepared in step 2 and go to step 3.
- Repeat steps 1 to 4 until you are no longer hungry. Remember to give your body fifteen minutes to determine if you are still hungry. You keep preparing smaller and smaller portions until you are no longer hungry.
- Send me the $15 you would have paid for the weight loss book you would have purchased to my PayPal account. 😉