Are you a fast or slow eater? Have you always done this?

You are so right. After a big meal, in a little while my husband will say "I feel like I just ate a bowling ball!". hello... Me, my stomach unfortunately stretches way too well.

ME too! Really! Whenever they show weight loss tips and stuff on TV it doesn't apply to me. Most of the time it's for people who over eat which I don't do (well, when I'm PMSing maybe I over eat a little but not on a day to day basis). I will admit one of my deals is the food choices.. I don't always make the best choices but that in part is because I'm not the type of person who loves to eat. If it isn't something I really really want then I'm just as happy not eating anything. Now I've been all about making little changes here and there in choices and trying to find substitutes for foods that are healthier. Like.. now I hardly ever buy red meat (again, unless I have my period but that's because I need the iron).. instead of chopped meat I get lean ground turkey, before I thought it was a little dry so I started out by cutting it and using half lean ground turkey and half lean ground beef and mixing them together but now I don't really mind using just the turkey. Adding more veggies and fruit into my diet as well. More fiber, and so on. Almost every time I eat ice cream I eat breyers slow churned fat free ice cream and I LOVE IT! They say it's better to eat many small meals during the day and I try to do that but it's difficult. I used to only eat once a day so for me I am finding that slow changes seem to be key for sticking to anything. So, if you want to eat slow... maybe try to eat a little slower and not chew however many times it says.. maybe try splitting the difference.

I wish they would include someone like yourself in these studies. I guess you're right though, if you slow down, it may make a difference.

I was reading over what you said you are doing, and truly it sounds like you are doing an awful lot of the right things. I don't do half as well. Only thing I'm adding is my walking and exercising and that's not doing the trick by itself.

Yes, precisely, whittby! Eating slowly provide for the maximum digestive efficiency, which in turn provided maximum nutrition out of what has been eaten. That is to say that if you eat same amount of food slowly and quickly, the one eaten slowly will benefit you most because you get maximum out of it. There are two main reasons. One is that as slow eating means more chewing, so the food stuff is broken down in rather smaller chunks/pieces which makes it easier for digestive fluids to act on more stuff before the rest is thrown to excretory system. Moreover, the added amount of saliva during chewing helps a lot in digestive efficiency, too. Thus, double the benefit!

I'm thinkng on how eating slow provides the maximum nutrition out of food - because more of the food is digested?

So do you order less food when you are out to finish with less stress? It's a shame to have to leave your meal I would think.

I dont eat much. Depending on who I am with if the serving I get is a bit much I just give the extras.

See the comment above on the roommate who ate slow and was overweight. Other factors involved I guess. I was reading to chew a certain number of times - I tried it and it was torture. I may use this discussion as inspiration to slow down and help the weight loss.

I've always heard if you eat slow it will help with weight loss. How true it is, I don't know. I am guessing part of my being able to maintain a good weight for my height has to do with genes. Am sure there are exceptions and everyone is different.

I'm a Gemini, so am a multi task person. I do read a book at times while eating depends on what I'm reading. The Heroes Volume 1 Book is to large to multi task reading the book, as its very heavy.

When I sit down to eat alone, I really like to have a book to read and am still not sitting doing nothing but eating. Habits huh? Are you a multi-tasker too?

My husband used to say I ate like a snake swallowing my food whole. I started this when the kids were young and I was doing childcare as well I think. I know exactly what you're talking about with distress in the digestive track. Although I have allergies right now and when I eat I can't seem to breathe since I'm so snuffly stuffed up. I will eat slowly, I really will eventually.

rotflmao thats just it...LMAO I do wait a little bit ....right before bedtime with a big glass of milk :))) Not at all the ideal time to fill with carbs, but its been a habit of mine since I was a child. its like a sleeping pill. In fact I have tried to alter my ways and can not go to sleep because i am laying there thinking of my pie or what ever and glass of milk! Rotflmao

I mentioned a few minutes ago if you wait for a while before eating dessert, you may not want it. I can eat dessert feeling stuffed if it's a dessert I love though maybe it would work for you.

Just getting back to this discussion. At least after the operation, you could breathe and eat. You have a lovely habit eating slowly and are probably not stressing yourself out.

I absolutely cannot imagine eating with a family of ten. You most certainly couldn't have been allowed to waste food either I'm sure.

I am dieting as well and it would do me a lot fo good to slow down.

Here is something not brought up here yet. So you eat slowly, but quit before you're full? Obviously this diet technique wouldn't work for you. And I'm all for tons of little meals all day - grazing would be a good way to eat for me.

I cut up food for my son still and he can do it himself! I find myself using smaller pices myself too and I don't know why. Maybe so I don't have to chew so much . And maybe if we eat slower, we won't eat quite so much of that good sweet stuf?

I don't know why we pick on people for such a habit. And I would have liked to have you and another mylot friend here in that study to see what they would do with you.

I enjoy reading and eating. I find it relaxing too.

I just inhaled a bunch of jelly beans, when will I learn? And as far as meals, my stomach also needs to be thinking it's full more often.

You are lucky to be able to choose not to eat anything.

How many times to chew probably depends on what you are eating I think . Mashed potatoes take less time to chew than steak - just an example. I would surely lose my mind counting chews though.