eating enough to learn you CCCL

[ValidRouge]

Re: eating enough to learn you CCCL

I'm an OWLer too! I'm on legumes this week and last. I had a spoonful of kidney beans on my salad a couple times last week. And, today, I had a spoonful of black beans on a hot steak salad. Its good because I get the taste and texture. I'm loving OWL, this is my second time around on Atkins. I think I slipped and fell the first time because I didn't move up through the rungs. Not this time though! I'm in it for the long haul!

[soliwit]

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Yah I love the new freedom to bits too !
Yesterday I made myself some sour cream with blueberries and sunflower kernels and hmmmMMMmmmm it was soooo good, I love to take about half an hour to eat it and enjoy each little bite, it's SUCH a treat !!!

[not2late]

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Yah I love the new freedom to bits too !
Yesterday I made myself some sour cream with blueberries and sunflower kernels and hmmmMMMmmmm it was soooo good, I love to take about half an hour to eat it and enjoy each little bite, it's SUCH a treat !!!

I've known naturally skinny people who to take forever to eat something. For example, I remember one co-worker used to eat a single 8 ounce container of yogurt over our 30 minute lunch break. One teaspoon maybe every 5 minutes. And there I was with various containers filled with my vegetarian lunch, shovelling the food down at record speed. I had another who ate a piece of cake just as slowly. During that time, I could never understand how a person could eat something like that so slowly, because I (and others) would inhale that in seconds and inhale several more pieces even faster.

But as I've climbed the OWL Ladder, I've learned why those people can stretch a small portion of food out for that amount of time and feel completely satisfied with it. If you eat it slowly you are able to taste the food and savor it's richness and flavor, so it "fills you up". If you eat it too quickly, you barely taste it and that leaves you needing to eat more because you aren't satisfied.

When I began the Nut rung, I weighed an ounce of almonds and thought "that's not very much!" I crammed it all into my mouth, chewed, swallowed, and thought "that's not very much!" But now, I can make that one ounce last at least an hour and feel very satisfied with that amount.

It's to the point now, that I hate being rushed with my meals because I can't taste my food and when I can't taste my food properly, I get hungrier faster.

[Elizellen]

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Good observation, Megs.

I often have a small piece of cheese when others are eating cream cakes and by eating it slowly and letting small pieces of cheese sort of 'melt' in my mouth it takes as long for me to eat one ounce of cheese as they take to eat a big cream eclair!
Also by eating it slowly I can taste the flavour so much better.

I always used to eat chocolate that way BA (before Atkins) as I read on a chocoholic website somewhere this was the 'correct' way to get the full experience. A bit like wine buffs taste wine by swilling it round their mouth and tongue!

[Isabeau]

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Great observation. I too have changed not just what I eat, but the way I eat. Much much slower now.