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Post by Mini Mia on Jan 15, 2009 22:10:42 GMT -6
If you want to find out more, do a Google search for:
stop eating when 80% percent full
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Post by Phalon on Jan 16, 2009 5:54:00 GMT -6
But how do you know when you're 80 percent full, as opposed to say...72% or 95% full?
My stomach gage apparently doesn't work.
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Post by Mini Mia on Jan 16, 2009 16:48:46 GMT -6
But how do you know when you're 80 percent full, as opposed to say...72% or 95% full?
If you want to find out more, do a Google search for:
How Do You Know When You're 80% Percent Full
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Post by Mini Mia on Jan 16, 2009 17:02:44 GMT -6
If you want to find out more, do Google searches for:
Chew Your Food Slowly+Count Eat Slow+Eating Slowly Chew+Times Before You Swallow Mindful Eating
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Post by quettalee on Jan 16, 2009 19:19:50 GMT -6
I learned how to use chopsticks and that slowed me waaaay down. Well, I knew how to use them right-handed, but when I 'bout cut off my thumb, I had to learn to use them left-handed because I still have no feeling in my right thumb...and you just can't do chopsticks without feeling it. (I still can't pick up a coin off the floor)
Anyhoo, it slowed my eating down even more because of the whole right-brain-left-brain thing.
Phalon, I know you got at least four pairs of chopsticks lying around...unless they got used for drum sticks or back-scratching or...something!
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Post by Phalon on Jan 17, 2009 7:49:22 GMT -6
Lots of good information there. Thanks, Ladies. Really though, I was just kidding. I thought the saying "stop eating when you're 80 percent full" was kinda funny - something that was not meant to be taken literally.
Like that other Japanese proverb: "Fall seven times, stand up eight." I know I suck at math, but the numbers don't seem to add up there. Maybe it actually means, "Fall off the "stop eating when you're 80 percent full" wagon, but don't give up and never quit trying."
Or maybe like that other proverb, "Quit playing around before someone gets hurt." That's not Japanese; it's a Momism, and Moms always know best, (that's my claim anyway). But how does one know actually when to quit playing? We know that kids never immediately do what they're told, so when exactly does that split-second occur before someone....hmmm...say...loses an eye, cuz we all know it's at that point that the fun and games are over.
Ok, so that doesn't exactly make sense. But eating slowly, and stop before you have that stomach gage is full feeling is advice that's pretty much common sense. Eating only 80 percent of what's on your plate also makes sense, I think. Unless, of course, you set your clock 15 minutes fast so when your alarm goes off and you hit the snooze button a few times, you are actually still close to being on time. Do that, and you're probably likely to put 20 percent more on your plate to fake yourself into thinking you're only eating 80 percent of what you normally would.
This whole post is due to the fact that my coffee pot is 80 percent full. I have to go remedy that.
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