The smaller plate thing defintely works well, and is better for long-term change. Plus, when I eat out, I'll always take something with me (or at the very least, not finish my plate; of course, these days I usually can't). It works much better in conjunction with some kind of exercise, I've found (even walking, as long as you do plenty of it on a regular basis).
However, I've now reached the conclusion that I'm going to have to seriously curtail my beer consumption, because it's definitely interfering with the whole weight loss process.
*cries and cries and cries*
However, I've now reached the conclusion that I'm going to have to seriously curtail my beer consumption, because it's definitely interfering with the whole weight loss process. *cries and cries and cries*
I'm wrestling with that too- Right now my solution is to do my best to avoid beer during the week and indulge in moderation during the weekend. But that doesn't always work out.
Right now my solution is to do my best to avoid beer during the week and indulge in moderation during the weekend. But that doesn't always work out.
I know - it sounds great in theory. In practice? NSM. Having Beer Works on pretty much a direct path to the train from work is one of the bigger challenges inolved in said curtailment, I tell you what (it's like a vortex that sucks me in when I get close to it).
Watched
Knights of Prosperity
again, last night.
That wasn't so good. I can't quite put my finger on it, but everything that I liked in the first two episodes seemed to be absent -- and replaced with the standard sitcom apery. Feh.
But it's okay, because it's Thursday and in just a few hours, I'll get to sit down to
The Office
which actually is love.
I've been doing this too and it really does work. My new thing is trying to draw my eating time out more. I come from a family of food bolters, as does Tom, so I figure it can't hurt to try to retrain myself to eat slower. My nutritionist suggested using a timer and then incrementally increasing the number of minutes.
My sister just saw a nutritionist who told her that if you multitask while eating (including reading, watching t.v., working at the computer) your intake of nutrients from your food decreases by 30%.
Does that make sense to people? Does most absorbtion take place while you're eating? I would have thought it was over many hours. Also, it seems to imply that brain activity is causing the decrease, which would then imply that even good conversation around the dinner table would have the same effect. So we should just eat and focus on eating? How depressing.
Hey Lady on the Bus,
After you maul a fellow passenger with your laptop bag apparently without realizing it or apologizing, you do not then later get to
rest the laptop bag on top of her
while jabbering on the phone.
Everyone else noticed that you were being an ass. Why didn't you?
omgwtf,
shrift
In conclusion: my arm hurts.
Lee, you really deserve a break from the digestive demons. Poor thing.
That sounds like shifty science to me, megan. I'd want to see studies.
I do believe that if you multitask (doing more than having a good conversation) while you're eating, you are in danger of missing the fact that you're hunger has been sated, and eating more than you need.
Does that make sense to people?
Sounds like galloping bullshit to me.
