#BEATTHEBELLY Daily Tip: Wait 20 4 Seconds

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I love seconds - helpings of dinner that is.

I normally fill up on the main course, lots of meat and carbs and veg.

I am not really a pudding person because I can't be bothered to make them.

When my wife is away I will sometimes just eat large amounts of grilled steak, baked potato and peas. Once I got an offer on fillet steak and ate a pound of it at one sitting straight from the BBQ.

In Yorkshire men are praised (mostly by older motherly figures) for finishing mammouth plates of food or chastised gently if they do not finish the plate - it can even be rude not to ask for seconds!

So what makes us feel full?

Well the body is pretty savvy and it lets the brain know when your stomach is getting stretched to filling point which in turn flips the switch in your brain to "full"

The problem is that it takes 20 minutes for the message to be received and understood in the brain - in stone-age caveman circumstances, eating slowly and chewing a lot on tough tiger steaks you can imagine how this reflex would work fine.

In modern life we like our food fast, hot and quality - so edible that we can chow down on two portions worth in the same time it takes our belly stretch receptors to tell our brain we are full.

SO eat slowly, chew more and WAIT 20 MINUTES BEFORE YOU ATTEMPT SECONDS!

If you are still hungry maybe you do need some more but try eating something healthy and filling like fruit at this stage - often however you will find when you get there that you are disinclined to eat a greater volume and feel replete.

Don't feel guilty about leaving food, just cook less next time.

Don't eat leftovers of others - it just isn't right!

Finally here is a last word from Mens Health Magazine who want us all to have an 8 pack of abs instead of a keg, but the article backs up the slow eating principle.

Dr Ben Sinclair
Sinclair Health Limited
https://www.optimiseclinic.co.uk
Twitter: @menshealthtips
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