Do you tend to eat in a hurry and spend just a few minutes eating before going back to work? Doctors often advise that for a good digestion it is important to take our time eating, but it is also often believed that eating quickly makes you fat, but is this true? We analyze it below.
Eating fast makes you fat?
Food is a moment that deserves the right time and the right attention. We should eat a hot meal, calm, sitting down and slowly and when we are not in the habit of doing so our body suffers and somehow makes you gain weight.
When you eat fast, you swallow a lot without tasting it , your taste buds don’t have time to feast, so your food is based on quantity and little on quality. Food should also provide us with some satisfaction. Depriving yourself of this means depriving yourself of the pleasure of eating and, in a sense, eating poorly.
But in addition to gaining weight because we eat poorly due to the rush, we can also list these other causes for the fact of gaining weight when we only dedicate a few minutes to lunch (or dinner):
We do not give our stomach time to know if it is full
The feeling of fullness occurs 20 minutes after the first bite. Eating fast and perhaps being distracted by TV, phones or PC distracts us from our stomach and by not listening to it we end up filling it more than necessary and beyond your satiety and therefore we end up eating too much. If you eat more calmly, it will surely take less than 20 minutes to finish the dish, a pity that the stomach informs us after 20 minutes if it is full.
We don’t chew well
Eating fast sometimes coincides with chewing too fast. You chew and swallow hastily without giving weight even to the taste, to its consistency, not chewing food well is harmful to health since it also fills the stomach with air, increases the feeling of hunger and with it we eat more but in a short time . A “vicious circle” that always pays off by getting fat.
We do not eat in company
Sharing a meal often relaxes us, helps us not to be distracted by multiple televisions and screens and to eat slowly and calmly. While we chat or listen, we tend to keep food in our mouths for a long time and savor the flavors and thus digestion is better and ultimately, we do not get so fat.
Eating while enjoying your food is very important and awareness is the first step towards change . Learning to eat slowly is possible, so start exploring the possible reasons why you eat so fast .
You do not have time? Do you have a bad relationship with food? Sometimes this way of voraciously turning to food hides problems related to an overly rigorous education, the fear of abandonment or the need to save time. Don’t you think that weight gain is often related to a psychological problem? Many obese people claim that they eat primarily to make up for what is lacking in their life. So the next time it’s time to eat, remember to give yourself the time you deserve.
