A major new insight(to me)was given by my WW leader after the first meeting. She said that when your body has had enough to eat you will sigh deeply. I though yeah right that's a good one but when I ate my next meal I paid attention and sure enough about halfway through I gave a deep sigh and realized I was no longer hungry. So I stopped eating which was soooo hard as I have always hated leaving any points behind on my plate. For the next few days I watched my kids as they ate and to my surprise saw that they would sigh deeply as well when eating but the difference between myself and them was that they pushed their plates away and said they were done.
Since then I have only eaten what comes before that deep sigh and even when I have to leave the food behind I do and it is getting easier.
Since that was working for me so well I also decided to use the 20 minute method of eating and found that if I count to ten after swallowing and taking the next bite that I can take 20 minutes to eat a meal, sometimes even longer.
The third and most difficult thing has been releasing what I call my "Buffet Mentality". This is the need to consume the largest volume of food that I possibly can for the points allowed.
I discovered that for me if I feel the need for some chips I am better off using 5 points and having regular chips than spend 3 points for "Lite" chips and getting twice as much.
I want the taste of fat and salt when I eat something like that and when I have popcorn it has to have real butter and I am so much happier now that I realize that I can have exactly what I want.
I used to eat 8-12 ounces of meat at a meal and now I am satisfied with 2. I used to eat 2 cups of rice and now 1/2 a cup works fine I eat my veggies and salad first and then I can really enjoy the meat and potato portion of my meal.
I am sure that I will reach some hurdles and have days when I totally blow off all of these great tips and overindulge and I am so glad that I have found this site to share those moments with too.
Right now I am so happy that these things are working for me and so I had to share them with you in case they might work for someone else.
He's said it for years but I never realized it might be a common signal that we're full. He'll say "Okay, stop now!" and I've found if I keep going, I'm miserable. 
