OK, you’ve successfully completed the HCG diet and you did well. Let’s say you’ve lost 40 pounds or so.
That’s not a small amount of weight for anybody and I am sure you made some big life changes during the diet that you were not used to.
For example, before the diet you might have belonged to the “clean plate” club. If it was on your plate, it was going to be eaten.
We are often brought up to eat everything on our plate, it’s just natural for most of us.
A great illustration of this was a researcher did a study. He brought people into a cafeteria and told them they were testing a new soup recipe. But that wasn’t the case.
What he actually was doing was testing how much more people would eat if it was already in their bowl. What he did was put a hole in the bottom of some of the bowls and he secretly filled the bowl up with soap while the participants were eating. So they didn’t notice they were getting more food than the others.
But what the study showed was that the people who kept getting more soup didn’t stop eating when they were full, they just kept eating until it was gone.
In fact the people who kept getting more soup secretly at an average of 73 percent more than the people who had regular bowls!
73 percent more!
And that’s mainly because of this tendency to eat what’s on our plate or in our bowl until it’s gone.
But if you want to keep the weight off and lose even more weight you need to end this habit.
You can realize that leaving food on your plate is fine. It’s not “wasting” food and there is nothing wrong with leaving some uneaten.
Eat until you feel comfortable, not until you feel stuffed! And if you find that you didn’t eat enough and you are hungry later, well then you can get another plate and leave some food left over on that as well!
So remember, you don’t have to eat everything served to you or everything on your plate.
Soon you’ll find it’s easier to avoid the trap of eating everything in front of you and you’ll be much skinnier because of it!