65% of Shape readers voted that they have a flawed relationship with food.
With the fast pace of the modern world, it’s tough to find time to sit at the dinner table and eat with the family. But it’s one of the many reasons most of us share a tortured relationship with food.
Dr Brian Wansink, author of Mindless Eating (Hay House), says, “Most of us don’t overeat because we’re hungry. We overeat because of family and friends, packages and plates, labels and colours, shapes and smells. The average person makes around 250 decisions about food every day – breakfast or no breakfast? Part of it or all of it? Kitchen or car? Yet out of these 200-odd food decisions, most we can’t really explain.”
Identify your decision-making process and make it work for you.
Try these speedy tips:
1. Dish up dinner in the kitchen, not at the table. Store your office lunch away from your desk. If you have to get up to fetch more, you’re less likely to overeat.
2. Eat slower because your brain takes 20 minutes to register it’s full.
3. Don’t give in. Generally your stomach only has three settings: (1) We feel like we’re starving, (2) we feel like we’re stuffed or (3) we feel like we can eat more. Most of the time we’re in the middle, but if something is put in front of you at this time – don’t give in.
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