We should be celebrating. We’ve got the first two rules of weight loss under our belt instead of extra food. Those simple rules as you’ll remember are eating smaller portions and cutting down on sugar.

The first is one of those deceptively easy things to do. I mean anyone can look at a plate and know when the portions are too big, right?

Well, some clever soul once said that your eyes are as big as your stomach and it’s become the cliché of all time. Too many people actually work on the principle that if it fits on the plate, they can finish it. And so many of them justify this excess by railing against waste rather than thinking about their waists.

There are a number of issues to fit in, so I’ll be returning to this topic in another article. For now, the first point is that it takes time for the food you eat to get down into your stomach.

For starters, let’s be a snake. Have you ever seen any of these sickening documentaries when a snake disjoints its jaw and slowly forces something still struggling and quite long into their mouths. Right. Almost enough to put you off eating altogether. So, we’re the snake’s stomach and after a while, the head of this creature (now thankfully dead) arrives for digestion. We soak the flesh off it with acids and rot the bones down into mulch to shove the rubbish out of the other end. It’s like a conveyor system. More food in. More waste out. Happy fat snake in between.

Well we humans are no different. The brain tells the stomach, “Watch out, food coming!” So the poor stomach puts on a brew of stomach acids and sits down waiting for the damn food to come home — you know what it’s like when the men have gone down to the pub, don’t you. The bad news is that it usually takes about half an hour before the stomach gets enough food inside and tells the brain to stop eating. By then, of course, it’s too late. Your gullet is full of food waiting for space to open up below. So, when you’re plating the meal (fancy restaurant way of saying slopping the food on your plate), you have to anticipate this full feeling.

We’re not going to get into weighing the food before you eat it (yet — yes, the threat of that is always present and I’ll talk about whether to do it or not in a later article). Your eyes have to become that “full feeling” when you are putting the food on the plate. You have to be able to say, “That’s enough,” and then be prepared to wait for thirty minutes to prove the point. The ordinary eater finishes the plate in ten minutes of sustained stuffing and consults the old fuel gauge. “It’s still not showing full,” you say. “Let’s have some more.”

Self-discipline is what you need.

Clever drugs

“But what if I’m weak?” I hear you muttering plaintively.

Well, that’s where these clever drug people come in. I would never have believed it. But having tried the tablets, they really do work.

Phentermine, Acomplia and Meridia mess around with the chemistry of your brain and trick your thinking box into believing that the stomach has sent those messages about you being full up. I think they’re working on another drug to convince you that margarine tastes like butter, but progress is slow. Meanwhile, back on your plate, your appetite is much smaller.

The effect of that on your will power is phenomenal (the next drug to buy). You thought your eyes would never be enough. Well, phentermine, Acomplia and Meridia help you to make your eyes smaller than your stomach so that, after a few months, your stomach really is smaller. Yes, your stomach really does physically shrink when you put less food inside. That means your stomach fills up more quickly and you feel fuller quicker. So you eat less. I think this is where I started so I’ll stop.

Of course, I could just have said buy some smaller plates so portions look bigger than they are, but then I’m paid by the word and you would have been bored looking at an empty screen.

Until next time, stay mentally strong and keep eating less.

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