Eat Slower = Cut Calories

This is not something I am proud of, but I can, without a doubt, eat as much as my boyfriend and probably in a shorter amount of time than he can. Once the eat feast is complete, I am normally succumb by food-coma.

In a recent study by the American Dietetics Association in 2008, it was found that subject reported greater satiety and consumed roughly 10 percent fewer calories when they ate at a slower pace compared with times when they gobbled down their food (my typical eating habits).

In scientific mumbo-jumbo it is believed that the two hormones (glucagons-like peptide-1 and peptide YY) that signal feelings of satiety, otherwise known as the feeling of being full, showed a more pronounced response in a slow condition of eating.

If this isn’t proof enough to slow my roll down at the dinner table, I don’t know what is.