Comment by 14
3 years ago
I came up with a diet to lose weight. I was approaching 200lbs and wanted to get it under control so made a simple diet that helped me lose 50lbs. I call it the half and half. You take your meal and plate it. Then take a second plate and split everything exactly down the middle. Eat your first plate and then you wait half an hour. If after half hour you want to eat again you can go back to your second plate. What ends up happening is some times you would go back for more but other times you would get busy. Or just not feel hungry. It wasn't long before my stomach started to shrink and I would eat smaller and smaller amounts of food. This worked incredibly well. I could eat anything type of food I wanted just needed to wait half hour before going to my other half of my food. I eventually stopped splitting my plates and just made very small plates because I realized I would be full off a little amount. The only other rule I followed was never finish food once I feel full. That last bite of a burger just toss it if you feel full.
You might have heard of it by now but I suspect you're exploiting the mechanism that delays the feeling of satiation for roughly 20 minutes after eating. Many people can eat a seemingly unlimited amount of food so long as they do it quickly.
I think your method is cool because it tricks both the hungry and the logical part of your brain into thinking it can totally have all the food so long as it waits, but by the time 20 minutes is up, the satiation chemicals have found their way to your brain and it's no longer hungry.
Thank you. A lot of people just shrug it off when I say I have a diet. They look at me and say but you are skinny like you ever needed to diet. Well I really was 50lbs heavier at one point and that is a lot. I think you nailed on the explanation as to why it happens as well. When you know you can go back for more it’s not some painful I need to starve feeling you can reason with yourself and say okay I had my first plate it’s not going to be bad to wait half an hour where as if you had to wait say several hours you may be tempted to have just a bit more because of hunger pains. Also not being restricted to certain foods makes it easier as well because who really wants to make a big change to the foods they already eat. Well thank you for commenting.