Weight Loss Tips

Welcome back and in this post, which is an original article written by the author for WeightLossGo.com and therefore it may not be copied and published elsewhere under copyright rules, I want to take a brief look at the way distractions while you are eating can actually cause you to gain weight without you realizing. In fact, this very cool weight loss tip will help you to avoid this aspect to eating and help you to maintain a healthy weight, or if you are on a diet, then to lose weight.

One of the major distractions for people while they eat is the television. It boggles the mind just how many people eat while they watch TV, yet have no idea that by doing so they are eating more than they really want and setting themselves up for weight gain. Think about it.

Do you really need to watch TV while you eat? Is your food so bland and boring you need to fill your head full of whatever mind-numbing dross is being spewed out of the goggle box?

Maybe it is, but if you are serious about controlling your weight, and I’m sure you are or you probably wouldn’t be reading this, then you need to pay more attention to what it is you are eating. When I was a kid, my family sat around the dining room table to eat all meals together. The TV was in the other room and we made light conversation over our meal, which was appreciated because our mother had spent a lot of time preparing and cooking it with fresh ingredients. It tasted good and was healthy and wholesome food. We ate fairly slowly and enjoyed our meal times.

Today, people grab something quick out of the microwave and go sit down in front of the TV and shovel the food into their mouths often without even realizing they are eating! Where is the enjoyment in that?

Well, if you want food to be your friend, and if you want to maintain a healthy weight you ought to make food your bestest friend in the whole wide world, the you are going to have to pay it a whole load more attention. To do that, you are going to have to eat it in a place where there is no TV, no newspapers, no books or magazines either. Don’t do crosswords, play computer games on portable consoles, fiddle with your cell phone setting or for that matter don’t even take or make a call!

You want to eat without any distractions so that you can place your full and undivided attention onto the food you are eating. Why would you want to do that?

You want to eat with all your concentration placed on your food because you want to make your brain aware that your stomach is full before it gets overfull, which happens when you are not paying attention to what you are eating. Also, you want to take time over each mouthful so that the flavors of the food are registered by your taste buds on your tongue. Then those flavors are sent to your brain for processing and directing your digestive system to make a more efficient job of processing that mouthful of food.

When you fully digest your food, less of it gets stored as fat.

Another distraction you can really do without is fast, up tempo music. It has been scientifically proved in tests that when you eat while listening to music with a beat of above 125 beats to the minute, you eat faster. This is no joke and serious business for fast food restaurants. their owners are fully aware of this fact and that is why you get the background music playing in fast food hamburger restaurants and the like and it always has a fast beat. The volume doesn’t have to be loud. In fact the quieter it is, the better because you are almost blissfully unaware that it is even there most of the time. Very clever tactic that you should take note of next time you visit one of those places.

…er… hang on, you are trying to lose weight and planning a visit to a MacBurger restaurant? Are you kidding me?

Okay, joking aside, fast music is a serious way to get the restaurant patrons eating faster, finished and out the door to make way for more customers. On the flip side, you can have slow tempo music playing as long as it is unobtrusive, because… yes you guessed it, music with a very slow beat can actually help you eat slower. Just don’t put on a piece of music that you will give all your attention to, because you have to be focused only on your food. Remember?

So by avoiding distractions while you eat, you give yoruself a better chance to lose weight simply by eating more slowly and digesting that food more efficiently. This is nothing exceptionally complex to understand either. Just be sensible and you can turn your meal times into weight loss diet times, while you eat. Just eat something healthy, okay!

Weight Loss Tips

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