Eat to 80% Full

Everyone knows what it feels like to be stuffed – take your favorite holidays and reminisce on what you ate, how much you ate and how you felt after you ate. Most people ate to where they had to unbutton a few buttons on their jeans or throw on some sweats just so they didn’t have to feel the tightness of their stomach protruding, this we’ll call 150% full.

We also know what it feels like to be hungry, this is 0% full.  So what we’ll want to focus for our “maintain no gain” challenge is to eat until we are 80% full.  Stop when you have a few bites left on your plate – no need to clean the plate or use a smaller plate.

Here are some helpful tips from PN’s lessons on how to measure 80% full:

1.     Take a bite.

2.     Stop.

3.     Take a breath.

4.     Check in with yourself. How do you feel? Pause to notice.

5.     If it feels like another bite is a good idea, take another bite. And repeat.

6.    If you feel like you might be around 80%, stop.

Try this experiment and see what works for you, in the beginning it may feel uncomfortable until you get the hang of it.