Shrink your tummy (without surgery)
Tummies are meant to expand and contract as you eat and digest your food but what can you do if your tummy expects a whole mountain of food at every meal?
Dramatic weight loss does not have to mean drastic solutions.
If you have a lot to lose and have been used to eating large portions of food, your stomach will be trained to expect the same on an ongoing basis. You will find it hard to feel satisfied on the amount of food most diets specify you can eat to reduce weight.
Some people deal with this problem with the help of their health practitioner by going for major surgery to medically reduce the stomach size. This is not something to be undertaken lightly but in cases where obesity is a huge problem it does happen (and is increasingly common these days).
But you can reduce your stomach capacity without undergoing surgery. The answer is to gradually reduce your usual portions of food rather than cutting down drastically all at once.
Your stomach has the ability to stretch and the more you eat the bigger the stomach becomes. When you reduce portion sizes too quickly, the stomach remains partially empty after eating and continues to submit hunger signals to the brain. If the portions decrease gradually, the stomach shrinks along with the portion sizes.
If you have not been overeating, your stomach is naturally only the size of your closed fist.
How much more than that are you eating today at each meal? Use the Weight Loss Hunger Scale to help shrink your meals to the right level for you at each stage without the discomfort or distress of feeling hungry all the time.
For weight loss, gradual changes are almost always better than drastic diets and procedures and will lead to better long lasting good habits.
© Copyright 2004, Janice Elizabeth Small
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