Take the Bites & Chews challenge - see if you eat right!
If you wolf down your food, you are on a fast track to poor health and to gaining weight... But if you eat slowly and mindfully, you can lead a happier and healthier life...
Most people eat too fast. Are you one of them? How do you know if your bites are too big, and your chews are too few? The Bites & Chews Sampler is the answer to test your eating habits by taking the Bites & Chews challenge.
If you can maintain the slower chewing pace, you are well on your way to better health and leanness. But if you find yourself exceeding the pace of the app, that’s when you can really benefit by slowing your rate of chewing.
This sampler version is free and if you like it you should consider buying the paid versions, which have greater food selection and provide feedback.
Bites & Chews Sampler was created by Dr. Alex Nedvetsky, PhD., a weight loss expert and author of the book, 7 Steps 2 a Lean U: Forget the Misery of Weight Loss Dieting! The app is a companion to his book and helps people to do what is necessary to lose weight and improve health.
So what are you waiting for? Take the Bites & Chews challenge!
CONTENT
Database with more than 500 most common foods, including foods from 3 restaurants. Visual/audio eating guidance tools.
INSTRUCTIONS
• Click 3-bar menu button in the upper left corner to open the Options Screen and select Settings:
o Chose Imperial or Metric units
o Chose Speed of Chewing: Fast (80 per min) or Slow (70 per min)
• Click All Foods to go to the All Foods screen.
• Select a food item from the Food list or click on the Restaurants tab: chose a restaurant from the popup list.
• Select a food item.
• Pay attention to the key food info: Weight,
Total Eating Time,
Number of Bites,
Number of Chews,
Calories, and
Health Score.
• Visually divide your food into the indicated number of bites (give or take a few).
• Press Start and chew along with the Countdown Button: navy circle indicates chews and white circle indicates bites.
• To pause the countdown, tap the Countdown Button and tap again to continue.
• Stay with the countdown to the very end – wait for the "Great Job!" pop-up.
APP CUES
• Small bites – one bite is about one cubic centimeter (just short of cubic ½ in). Relax, don’t panic. Sure, it will take some work to adjust to small bites, but you’ll get good at it in a jiffy.
• Thorough chewing – a certain number of chews in each bite is deliberately calculated to make sure that you chew each morsel properly, albeit not too long to bore you stiff.
• The health score is rated on the scale from one to ten, with 1 being the worst and 10 - the healthiest food. Excessive calories and volume and nasty nutrients (sugar, sodium, saturated fat, etc.) lower the health score, while moderate portions, high density of good nutrients, and abundance of antioxidants do just the opposite.