Today, let’s listen to our stomach and eat when hungry and stop eating when (almost) full.
Let’s save the time and concern of calorie counting and instead follow the ‘80% Rule’ that was developed after observing how residence of the Blue Zones.
The 80% Rule: stop eating when the stomach is 80 percent full. That 20% gap is the difference between losing weight or gaining it
Your stomach is about the size of your first. So a good way to follow this rule is to remove a finger and only eat that much food in one sitting. Yes, the stomach stretches, but it would prefer not to.
Overeating is toxic to the body; sapping our energy while creating inflammation.