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Mindful eating and keeping weight off
Merlin Mann | Jan 3 2008
Reason Magazine - Secrets of Weight Loss Revealed! This review of two recent diet books underscores what most of us already know all too well: while it's easy enough to drop a few pounds for a short while, it's nearly impossible to lose a lot of weight for a long time. What caught my attention for anyone wishing to apply some fancy book-learning directly to the affected area was this chunk of insight on eating mindfully -- alongside a smart bit of life-hacky weight loss advice:
I'm also a big-fan of guesstimating portion with real-world objects. Although, candidly, the last time I ate beef, it was less like a deck of cards and more like the whole blackjack shoe. [via: Arts & Letters Daily] 15 Comments
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80%-full no need for doctor, 60%-full no need for medicine.Submitted by mehori on January 5, 2008 - 9:58am.
Resident of Japan here, and that's a saying in Japan. Just as grant said above, 'Hara-hachi-bu' is a Japanese traditional saying to keep yourself 80% full. Many elders here who lives beyond one hundred years says that the habit of eating 80%-full is the secret to longevity. So I always go out to buy my rice bowl accoding to my personal 80%, not the one that looks good. » POSTED IN:
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