Lose Weight By Reducing Portions of Food You Love
If you can see the waiter’s muscles as he sets down your big plate, imagine how all of the food is going to affect your own hips and waistline. I remember one night at an Italian restaurant. We ate salad and breadsticks, and were probably already over a normal day’s calorie limit. Then we got these huge servings of pasta. It all tasted great, but really could have fed four people.
Many people weigh too much because they just eat too much. They may even do it without realizing it. It is not a hormone problem, low thyroid, or any other disease. When people take in more calories than they use up, they gain weight.
We cannot be blamed for starting the oversized portion trend. But even though we did not start the problem, it can still be our problem.
Here’s the point Size does matter!
1. Dinner plates today are bigger than in the 1950’s and 1960’s. I now use a luncheon or salad plate to get a better size proportion.
2. When eating out: Restaurant portions are almost always oversized. I often order off the child’s menu, or I split an entre with friend, or I ask the server to bring a to-go box with my meal, then divide the portion in half, and tuck it away before I begin eating.
3. Take a mental picture of everyday items to get an idea of proper food portions.
A small baked potato is about the size of the inside of my palm.
A waffle or pancake portion is about the size of a cd.
a medium bagel is about the size of a hockey puck.
A small muffin is about the size of a tennis ball.
One serving size of cheese is an ounce!
Three ounces of meet are usually the size of a deck of playing cards.
A rice serving usually refers to about half of a cereal bowl.
Fruits and vegetable servings should be about the size of a tennis ball.
You must choose though. One particular diet plan does not seem to work for everybody. High protein diets seem to help many people lose weight, while others are helped more by high fiber diets. One thing that seems to help everybody is to include more high water content food, like vegetables and fruit. Make yourself eat fruit or a salad before meals and see if that helps.
Make positive choices. It may not be how much food you eat, but what sort of choices you make. Try to cut back on processed foods, and include more fresh food.
We can eat less, eat healthy, and live better with every meal choice we make. I am losing weight and I feel more energized just by making these small, consistant diet changes.
It can be simple to figure out why you have gained too much weight.
Portion Control – You could be eating too much without knowing it . You can lose weight with some simple weight loss tips!