While some diets tell you to cut the quantity of the food that you are eating, there are others that tell you to focus on the quality of food, rather than quantity. They mainly focus on cutting down carbohydrates and fats in your diet.
But what if you could lose weight without either cutting down on your food quantity or switching your diet? Using chopsticks can help you lose weight by working on the speed with which you eat. The use of chopsticks makes eating a slightly inconvenient thing and teaches you how to savor the food.
Concentration is the key to the success of chopsticks as a weight loss tool. They make you concentrate on your food and watch out for every single bite that you are eating. So unlike other days when you while away with your food because of boredom or simply because you are glued to the television, this time you know you are eating. This in a way creates a rather alert eating habit, telling you exactly when to stop.
If you are eating with the fork or a spoon, you can simply gulp down that food without realizing where it went. But things are different when you eat with a chopstick. You actually trace down each and every bite to your stomach making you more alert to your fullness cues. So whenever you are full, you can immediately strop eating without overstuffing yourself.
The smaller the merrier! Your chopsticks by default are structured to pick up smaller bites than the usual. So you can’t really pick up large chunks of food and gobble them. So you eat in small bites, which is anyways a healthy eating habit. Indirectly, you get to inculcate a healthy eating habit for the long term.
The best part about eating with a chopstick is that you get to eat anything and everything you like. Your chopstick certainly won’t say no to a particular food. So you can enjoy all kinds of foods in moderation. So you get to lose weight not because of what you eat but because of how you eat.
If you have been using chopsticks for quite some while now and have learnt to master the art, then go in for chopsticks that you are not really comfortable with. The wooden or the bamboo chopsticks are the easiest to use. Instead of these wooden ones go in for plastic ones. Their slippery nature makes it difficult to eat with them. Metallic ones available in the market are even more difficult to use.
Chopsticks are indeed a smart way to lose weight. By cutting down on your speed and making you concentrate more on your food, they actually reduce your diet consumption and help you lose weight consecutively.
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