When should I stop eating?
Listen to your body and eat until you are satisfied, then stop. Eat until you are 80% full. Not 100% full. Your stomach is the size of a loosely clenched fist. Don’t eat to prevent hunger. Hunger is not bad. You can always eat later when you truly feel hungry. Eat only when you’re hungry; stop when you are comfortable. The Japanese have a saying, “hara hachi bu”, which means eat until you are 80 percent full. The Okinawan people often live to 100. They are the longest-lived, healthiest people on the planet and they practice hara hachi bu.
As Hippocrates, the father of modern medicine, said over 2500 years ago, “If we could give every individual the right amount of nourishment and exercise, not too little and not too much, we would have found the safest way to health.”
Satisfied doesn’t mean 100% full. The goal of eating is not to be full; it is to satisfy hunger. When you are no longer hungry, you should stop eating.
Remember the size of your stomach. To help counter the belief that we have to eat large quantities of food, remember the size of your stomach—the size of a loosely held fist. It’s not big at all.
When you wait until you are hungry before you eat & stop when satisfied, you will burn fat. If you eat before you are hungry, you will make fat. I think it’s important for people to know when they are burning fat and when they are making fat.
