Controlling your portion size has been the easiest way to help control your weight if not promote weight lose. It takes your stomach about 20 minutes to deliver a message to the brain telling it that the stomach is full. This is where portion control will help eliminate the need for the stomach to slowly tell the brain anything. Your stomach is the size of your fist, if not a little bit bigger, but when you keep eating until your stomach tells your brain anything, it is already to late. Your stomach, at this point, is about twice the size as it is at rest. When your stomach is that large and you don't plan on running a marathon in the next couple of hours, it will go to storage (fat) or waste. When you control your portion size you will have very little storage regardless of what you do and you will also have little waste. I have found that little meals throughout the day (Grazing) keeps me from getting hungry and also gives me a great feel of energy in the morning and at night. I have the best results with about six meals a day but sometimes I will have seven or so. The other thing to keep in mind when you are eating is to eat slower than you usaually do. This will by you more time for your stomach to talk to the brain.
I will admit, it is hard to get into the habit of eating like this for the simple fact that you need diversity in your food and sometimes grazing holds you to a select kind of food that you might eat once, twice, or even three times in a day. Normally your stomach will get used to it in about a weeks time or so. It all depends on how you ate before this method.
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