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Linda Spangle:
That one has saved me more times than I can count. It’s simply saying, “Alright, the first two bites of any food have the most flavor and after that you’re just feeding.”

Linda Spangle, Registered Nurse and author of the book, 100 Days Of Weight Loss…

So, what you do is, you really focus on those two bites and you ask yourself, "is this food really wonderful and can I really get the flavor that I want, just from two bites?" And you know what, most of the time you can.

You’ve probably heard that eating slower will help you eat less and therefore lose weight, and it does make sense.

You know research has always said that there’s about a twenty-minute gap between the signal from your stomach to your brain that says you’re full. I actually teach another technique called the eating pause. And it’s simply that when you’re eating a meal, when you stop and you put the food down and you sit for a few seconds or a minute or so, you might look around or talk to somebody or read the paper for a minute- that pause is almost always the sign that your stomach is right at the exact point of being very comfortable, very satisfied. And if you can learn to recognize that pause and say, “ Ok, fine whatever is left on my plate doesn’t matter.” You can completely manage your food amounts without ever measuring or weighing a thing.

You can take Linda’s diet quiz on her website which you can link to from ours: somethingyoushouldknow.net. I’m Mike Carruthers and that’s Something You Should Know.

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