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.

I am overweight because I eat too much. T ‘ain’t my metabolism or my sluggish thyroid. The nasty fat fairy didn’t cast a spell on me while I slept. Pure and simple, I eat too much. The great power of recognizing my responsibility in a problem is the realization that I have the power to change or fix it.

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.

When it comes to food…. Size Matters!

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.

Restaurants serve huge portions too. I know a group of women that always split meals, order off of the child’s menu, or divide portions into a to-go box.

Before you eat, try to understand what a normal portion size should look like.

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.

Small muffins should be about the size of a baseball.

An ounce of cheese is not very large, but that is a serving.

A suggestion meat portion should fit in the palm of your hand.

Your rice serving should fit in a cupcake cup.

1 serving of fruit or veggies is about the size of a tennis ball. Actually, I think it is usually ok to overeat fruit and vegetables.

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.

Life just doesn’t have to be that complicated

Portion Control – Take some simple steps to eat better. Help yourself lose weight and feel better with fast weight loss hints!