Nowadays we are doing the biggest harm to ourselves by overeating. Anything from takeaway food to healthy home-made ravioli. We abuse our stomachs to the point of pain and nausea. We feel guilty and resentful. Yet we’ll do it again tomorrow when we are faced with that lovely plate of [pick your poison] …
OM NOM is here to help.
Before food enters our stomach, this J-shaped muscular organ is just about the size of a small fist. It stretches when full and returns to normal when empty. Muscles start to relax when yummy bites arrive and the volume of a stomach increases up to 3 liters if needed (and that’s a lot of food).
But your stomach is actually full way before that!
Stomach has to stretch when in contact with food in order to increase the area, because its walls are full of glands that aid digestion. Moreover, stomach walls are covered with nerves – expansion of the stomach causes those stretch receptors to stimulate and signals are transmitted to our brain.
At a certain “stretch level”, brain determines that we feel happily satiated and should stop the food intake.
The problem is these signals take up to 10 minutes to be interpreted in our brain. And by that time we’ll have another serving of that delicious curry, won’t we?!? Our stomach will be stretched beyond a healthy size, which is about 700 ml.
If our stomach is overstretched beyond 700 ml regularly, the »feeling full & happy« size tends to increase.
And you know exactly where this is taking you …
OM NOM bowl is just as big as your full, but not overly stretched stomach. That’s around 700 milliliters.
We often need a visual cue to justify in our mind’s eye something is true. Seeing a full OM NOM bowl convinces us before the meal we’ll actually have a full stomach – how cool is that?!?
You can relax and go on with your day (not your meal).
Let’s admit it – we all need a little bit of extra common sense when it comes to yummy food.
It is not merely a matter of bigger people having bigger stomachs. Skinny people can also regularly over-stretch their stomachs. And consequently need more food to feel satiated (weird enough, sooner or later they are not so skinny anymore).
Even if you don’t have to loose any extra weight, we all know that feeling, when all we can do after a ginormous meal is to drop dead on the couch, feeling tired and nauseous. If only we stopped when it was enough, right?
Medical doctors and gastroenterologists agree OM NOM is a way to tackle excessive food intake problem!
Some of them even volunteered to be the lab rats (we’ll NEVER EVER test on animals, just humans).
You can always have your bowl half full or half empty.
Don’t even try fitting a steak into the OM NOM bowl … but a majority of simple everyday meals are perfect – think pasta, rice dishes, potatoes in all shapes and forms, couscous or quinoa, stews or chowders, pasta salads, lasagna, porridge …
Yes, it’s these simple and hearty dishes we usually can’t portion out right.
Of course, this doesn’t work if your meal consists solely of leafy greens. Neither is it good for you if you fill it with cheese or nutella only.
