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tends to decrease.<\/p>\nEat with the people you love in your life, whether your family or friends. It turns out that when you\u00a0“return to the family table”, the quality of the food tends to increase & the quantity of the food tends to decrease.<\/p>\n
This of course is a great weight starting place for controlling volume. Plus, when you’re eating with others you’re a bit more likely to, I don’t know, talk to people. That means you’re less likely to eat huge bites with a plunger and speed eat in the process.<\/p>\n
Those two factors alone help you control consumption, eat all you want, but just want less.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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