How to Stop Eating Too Much

1. Drink lots of water. I bet you’ve heard this a thousand times. So why aren’t you doing it? Drink lots of water when eating. It fills you my friend.

2. Shift to a fruit and vegetable centered diet. Plant-based diets just help you consume less fattening and less chemical-based stuff. You can eat too much cabbage and never worry about serious repercussions, I swear!

3. It’s okay to leave food on your plate. I Know mom made you clean up that plate of dinner she cooked and labored so hard for. But guess what? Mom doesn’t cook your dinner anymore. You’re probably near her age when she was telling you to eat all your food. Social conditioning sucks but you don’t have to do it anymore. You’re old enough to be fucking over that shit. Dude.

4. Start looking at food as sustenance, something that gives you energy and allows you to work through the day. Quit viewing it as a recreational activity or a way to bond with friends. Food is supposed to sustain you to do meaningful work, not be meaningful in itself.

5. If you want to enjoy the way a particular food tastes, then eat slower than normal. You can enjoy it as much if you eat slowly the same way you think you can enjoy when you it plenty of it.

6. Chew slowly and pace yourself. Chewing slowly digests your food better and pacing yourself gives you more time to evaluate whether you’re really still hungry or you’re stuffing food in your face for another reason.

7. Stand up. This will take a bit of judgment on your part but stand up when you think you’ve eaten a fair amount of food yet you still want more. It’s nearly impossible to determine how full you are while you’re sitting. The mind seems to equate being comfortable with still being hungry when you’re downing that steak that the only viable way to inform yourself if you’re filled is to get up and reset the environment.

8. Stop justifying your behavior. The reality is, there’s no excuse for eating like a pig. The simple reason being that you’re not a pig. The complex one being that your body doesn’t need so much food. It needs enough to be productive throughout the day but how many of you reading this on the internet actually climb buildings or lift heavy equipment for a living? You only need as much energy as you will expend so consume only what you need. It’s not only healthy for you but it’s less taxing on the environment you live in.