How to eat with chopsticks
Posted on 30. Nov, 2010 by Lose 10 pounds in a week in Diet Tips
How can you lose weight without dieting? Is it really necessary to screw your teeth together or have a stomach bypass? What about starting to eat with chopsticks?
Life gets easier and more cheerful once you get the logic behind the above two drastic interventions: they allow you to eat as much as you’d like, only they make it extremely difficult, hoping you give up your eating effort.
A simple alternative to this rule of make eating more difficult is staring to eat with chopsticks. Of course if you are Asian, you already know that eating with chopsticks is much slower than gushing food in your mouth using a spoon.
The more time you spend on eating food, the more your body feels saturated. Think eating soup versus drinking it: drink the soup directly empty and you’re ready to begin the next course. Eat your soup with a spoon, and you notice that the same amount of soup suddenly became more filling. Spoon the same soup while talking with friends or family at a cozy dinner table and it will fill you even more.
Eating with chopsticks is only one part of the secret why Asian people are generally slimmer than in the west or in the US. In Asia you usually eat rice with several people around a round table whilst enjoying many snacks. Asian brains are "fooled" in the sense that little portions satisfy the body better than large quantities. The better food looks, the more digestive juices are made ("the water in your mouth"), the food is processed faster and you feel full faster.
Look at a Japanese meal in a Japanese restaurant: many small servings: rice, meat, soup, conserved veggies, raw veggies, fruits and a small cup of tea. Now look at a typical fastfood meal: one humongous burger, humongous portion of fries and another humongous portion of coke. By just changing the size of our portions, adding more variety and eating it more slowly (slow food in stead of fast food!), we will end up being less obese than we are getting now.
