How long does it take for the stomach to shrink when dieting?
Technically speaking, the stomach doesn’t “shrink”, however the stomach is a muscle organ just like any other muscle and when people eat a lot, it expands to take in the food you take, ever feel like you can’t move after eating too much is the effect you get. Think of the stomach like a rubber ball that expands and reduces. When you start limiting your food consumption, your stomach does not need to work to strech to take in the food, so it gets used to the amout of food you eat. In other words, your body simply adjusts just like your stomach does to your eating habits. It only stretches when your body is eating more, but then it contracts again once you are done eating. You can’t permantly change the size of your stomach, not unless you want surgery like gastro where they seal a part of your stomach. To answer you question of how long does it take, it takes a few weeks depending on your body, just like noticing weight loss takes a few weeks. No matter what kind of change happens, when
