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| Value for Money | 7/10  |
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| Overall rating | 8/10 |
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panda1
on 18th Mar 2007
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Good Points: Here's a book that talks about the psychology of our eating habits. We basically overeat, eating till we're full instead eating till we're not hungry. It doesn't provide any recipes for food, but it provides insight, bit of light reading, food for thought, helping you be aware of what you're doing. Your mind can be fooled without noticing if you eat 20% less, water and air has no calories, getting 8 inch plates and tall slim glasses helps psychologically with eating and drinking less. Get rid of the 12 inch plates and short fat glasses which gets you to eat and drink more.
Bad Points: Still hard to implement, but now I'm more aware of continuing to eat even if I'm no longer hungry, it's my choice.
General comments: Great book, easy to read with a bit of humor, harder to implement psychologically, but at least now I'm more aware of my decisions. Consuming 20% less, eat when you're hungry, eating till you're not hungry is healthier vs. eating till you're full, or by time schedule, visual cues like when the plate is empty isn't as good. It helps with smaller 8 inch plates and smaller, taller glasses to help in consuming less. People in Asia, particularly in Thailand with their sidewalk carts to eat much smaller meals, but it's satisfying, takes the hunger away, for a few hours, then have another small meal when you're hungry again. They may eat more often, but significantly smaller portions than the U.S. and are much smaller size and much smaller girth.
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