Keep These 3 Habits When Eating for Your Weight Loss Plan to Succeed in the Long Run

Habit of fast eating

Fast eating is a habit of many people who think that eating quickly is time-saving. Fast eating often leads to overeating because the brain has not received the signal of fullness from the stomach, so it will continue to eat. If you eat slowly, your body may want to eat less. Furthermore, fast eating prevents food from being chewed thoroughly and does not absorb enough enzymes, leading to poor digestion, causing food to stay in the digestive system longer, affecting health, and reducing immunity.

Therefore, you need to develop a habit of chewing slowly and thoroughly, the more you chew, the better you will feel full with the right amount of food. This helps you avoid overeating. Chewing food properly also helps improve digestion, avoid excess waste, and toxins in the digestive system. It is also an effective way to protect overall health and take care of your skin health.

Not being focused on eating

Being focused on eating helps the body process food in the best way, and the blood flows to the stomach to digest food. When not focused, eating while watching a movie or enthusiastically chatting will distract you from the eating process. This is not good for digestion and can make you indulge in eating without control, forgetting your weight loss plan. Therefore, mealtime can be a time for us to spend time with family, but you should have small talks before and after meals. Pay attention to the food you choose, the dishes you eat, and your weight loss plan. Especially if there are many different tastes and dishes in the family, not being focused can make you eat more oily and fatty dishes instead of focusing on vegetables and fruits.

Using excessive condiments

Vietnam has many dishes served with dipping sauces or fish sauce. And that delicious dipping sauce is a culprit that makes it difficult for you to lose weight. Fish sauce, soy sauce contains a lot of salt. Dipping heavily and with a lot of sauce makes you consume excess salt. The accumulated salt in the body makes you retain water, cause edema and make it harder to lose weight.

Experts recommend that those who need to lose weight should eat lightly. Usually, the food already contains salt even before processing. The need to add salt to food is not high. But Vietnamese people are eating saltier than the world, and the dipping sauces also add more salt to your diet. Eating too much salt not only makes it difficult for you to lose weight but also affects your health, such as cardiovascular disease, blood pressure…

Therefore, to support weight loss better, you should pay attention to modifying these 3 habits.