#BEATTHEBELLY Daily Tip: Wait 20 4 Seconds
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 st...