The Psychology Of How To Feel Full When Losing Weight

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Feeling Full By Eating Familiar Foods

In addition to eating more courses, eating familiar foods is an important way to feel full more readily. In research from the University of Bristol, researchers found that children who ate familiar foods would eat less in comparison to children who were giving less familiar foods to eat. While it is unknown if similar studies have been completed in adults, the results might very well suggest the need to not change to diet foods when trying to lose weight. Doing so could cause us to perceive the foods as being less filling than they really are.

Controlling Fullness By Changing How We Eat Food

One last approach to reducing the feelings of hunger and maintaining that feeling of fullness when dieting is to alter how we eat foods. Specifically, in research from University of Chicago, researchers discovered that the size of the fork we use to eat affects the amount of food consumed. In their study, the scientists provided restaurant patrons with different sizes of fork to eat their meals. What they found was that those using smaller forks ate 30-50% more of their meal than people using large forks. Clearly, the size of the fork affects our perceptions on how much we are eating.

Conclusions

Excess weight and obesity present significant well-known risks to our health making the need to lose weight an important task for preserving our well-being. Unfortunately, losing weight is a challenging task for most people because of the need to fight that constant feeling of being hungry. The good news is that there are some ways to convince our brains that we are full while consuming less calories. The key is in understanding that the feeling of fullness is based, in part, on our perceptions.

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