Learn to Leave the Table

Still battling excess poundage to keep living well? Weight-management experts say learning to recognize and respond to clues as to whether you've filled up -- or feel as if you're full -- while eating is crucial to successful weight loss.

The Weight Expectations Report prepared for the maker of Meridia, found only one in four Americans feels full every time after they eat. Nearly three out of 10 say they hardly ever achieve satiety.

Nearly half of the respondents, 47 percent, say they continue eating even when they do feel full. Those who hardly ever felt full and continued to eat even when they did believed they had much more weight to lose, 27 percent. People who stopped eating when satiated felt they had less weight to lose, 13 percent.

"If we can use satiety to help people understand how to gain control of their food intake and ultimately their weight," Kelly Brownell, head of Yale University'sCenter for Eating and Weight Disorders, says, "the repercussions for health -- both physical and emotional -- are significant."

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