How to Eat Like a Skinny Person

Steps

1. Eat three square meals a day of real food. Many people who stay slim follow no rules, dietary restrictions, or the latest blacklisting of carbs, fat, or whatever. They claim to “eat everything”.
2. Stick to real food, the kind that lists only a few recognizable ingredients on the package, if it has a package. Real food does not come from a factory and has no trademarked name, e.g. “tomato”, “milk”, “peanuts” etc. The best way to stay slim is to eat wholesome food with intrinsic nutritional value, not the kind added in later and advertised on the package.
3. Snack only when necessary, as when a meal is delayed, rather than out of habit. Snack only enough to stave off hunger until the next meal. If you often get hungry between meals, eat bigger meals or more nutritious food.
4. Everything in moderation. This is probably the most important step. Rather than eliminate all wheat/sugar/meat/whatever, try eating one cookie, or a few chips. The third, tenth, or twentieth cookie isn’t going to do any more for you than the first one did.
5. Rather than swinging between wild exercise regimens and none, stay alert during the day. Many women who are slim just move more in the course of the day, not hesitating to run downstairs for something they forgot, or walk a little farther across the parking lot, or stand on the bus.
6. Get enough sleep, and rest when you are tired so you can get up refreshed. Constant stress, burnout, or workouts lead to weight gain.
7. Next time you go out to eat pizza, take a napkin and pat all that fat off. Yeah, see that? Do so every time with pizza, and especially pepperoni.
8. You should also exercise in moderation: for example, take a ballet class, run around the block, or walk to work if it is nearby.

Tips

• Enjoy eating, as people in slimmer countries do. Take time to eat, and savor the taste, appearance, and smell of food. Developing a discriminating palate makes you less likely to shovel down processed products in loud packages in a semi-conscious attempt to fill an emotional void.
• If there is a kind of food that makes you pig out uncontrollably, avoid it. Eat one piece and put the rest away before you can think about it. Leave the room and start doing something else.
• If you find yourself starving after eating a normal-size meal, wait before refilling your plate. Tell yourself you can have a nice snack if you’re still hungry in a half hour.
• During those times when you seemingly can’t ever seem to get enough food, pick a convenient night to skip dinner, or eat something very light. Sometimes that’s all it takes to “reboot” the starvation mindset.
• Eat only until you no longer feel hunger and not until you feel full. It can take up to 20 minutes to actually feel full and if you continue to eat until you feel full you are likely overeating.

Warnings

• This how-to was not written by a medical or health professional, and the advice here is certainly not appropriate for everyone. The most important message to take away from it is to be sensible, moderate, and avoid extreme measures – like believing everything you read.

Things You’ll Need

• A Goal for your weight. Use a BMI calculator and find the best weight for you to be.
• Food.
• Willpower.