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Food Portion Sizes And Eating Food Slowly
By Julia Taylor-Fernandez
Food portion sizes can be managed during meal times. By eating
your food slowly, you will enjoy the food more and consequently
eat smaller portions. This is your secret to keeping your weight
down and losing more weight over a period of time.
If you keep a careful watch on the food ingredients you use for
cooking, then you can ensure you are eating food that is low in
sugars and fat. For example, if you remove fat from a piece of
steak, then you will have lean meat and you will be eating lean
meat and reducing the amount of fat you consume. You can even
buy lean meat from many food stores and health food stores, cutting
down your meal preparation time.
Preparing Healthy And Delicious Food For Your Family
If you consider the food you are eating and think about the consequences
of not preparing food properly, then you may realise it is easier
these days, to review your options and prepare healthy food, that
is delicious and easy to cook. You can buy lean meat, skinless
chicken, washed and bagged cabbage. You can even buy cut vegetables
to make a delicious salad.
Using these simple ingredients, you can make a quick and nutritious
meal that can be on your dinner table within 30 minutes. You do
not have to go a fast food outlet to get fast food. Your better
option is to make nutritious and delicious quick meals at home,
with pre-cut vegetables and lean meat cut into smaller pieces
for quick cooking.
As consumer demands are increasing for healthy food and smaller
food portion sizes, then you can help defeat the obesity epidemic.
Dietary Weight Loss Programs
Now that we’ve all made our New Year’s resolutions, everyone
who has losing weight on their list, raise your hand! Most of
us gained a few pounds over the holiday season and need to shed
a few - or more - to get back in shape. There’s certainly no shortage
of weight loss plans. The number and variety of such programs
can be bewildering.
Isn’t there a simple, straightforward way to lose weight without
counting, weighing and navigating food exchange calculations?
Read on to see how regulating your food portion sizes and eating
your meals in individual courses can make weight loss a snap!
Your Favorite Forbidden Foods
To begin, allow yourself one daily treat to look forward to,
in a satisfying amount. Choose just one of your favorite forbidden
foods. Read the label and decide on reasonable food portion sizes
to eat each day. Make the size small, but satisfying.
When you sit down to enjoy this treat, serve it on a pretty plate.
It’s special. Eat and chew slowly, so that you get every last
tidbit of enjoyment of the flavor, texture and forbidden pleasure.
Planning Healthy Menus
With meals, do plan healthy menus with foods you like. Let’s
say you’re having lasagna, a salad and French bread for dinner.
Now this may sound like a dieter’s dream, but it’s absolutely
OK as long as you monitor food portion sizes.
Make the salad large, with lots of your favorite veggie additions
- the more, the merrier. Serve it on an attractive plate as your
first course. Again, eat slowly, chew well and enjoy every last
bite.
A Sense Of Fullness Is Your Reward For Eating Slowly
Eating slowly allows your stomach to fill slowly. You’ll be surprised
to find a sense of fullness ensues. You start to feel satisfied.
Yet the calories you’ve consumed are minimal. Kick back for just
5 or 10 minutes before moving on to your next course.
Now for the lasagna. Again, use a plate that makes a nice, restaurant
style presentation. Eyeball the lasagna. Reduce this food portion
size by one-third of what you’d normally eat. Do the same with
the French bread. Use less butter or better yet, brush the bread
with olive oil. Add some minced garlic, sliced olives and diced
onions.
Savor Each Bite And Eat Slowly
You’ve got a lot of flavor, fewer calories and the cholesterol-lowering
benefits of the garlic and onions. Savor each bite and eat slowly!
You may be shocked to discover you’re actually full before you
finish your plate.
Make breakfast and lunch lighter as well. Fruit, muffins and
yogurt are good breakfast choices. A chef’s salad with turkey,
chicken or other lean meat is a low-calorie, satisfying lunch.
An Easy Program To Enjoy Your Food
Follow this plan, day by day. Learn to eat slowly, make your
food a visual feast and cut your food portion sizes. Eat one course
at a time. Have your daily treat. This is a program that’s
easy to stick with and lose all the weight, gradually and painlessly.
Soon you’ll have the figure you crave!
Your friends will want to know your secret. You can teach them
how to eat slowly and savor the food you are eating. You will
find the slower you are eating, the less food you are eating and
your food portion sizes will become smaller and smaller.
Cooking Tips With Low Fat And Low Calories Meals
You need to ensure you follow a few simple rules when you are
cooking. You need to ensure your ingredients are not full of high
sugars and fat. Before you cook meat, remove all the fat, so that
you can cook with lean meat. These days, you can buy lean meat
and even skinless chicken with all the fat removed, so that you
spend less time preparing food for cooking and more time eating
your food slowly.
If you wish to add salad dressing on your salad, then buy the
low calorie version from your supermarket or health food store.
Adding a delicious tomato sauce maybe a no no in many cases, but
there are low calories sauces available at the health food store.
With these tips, you can keep your weight down and still enjoy
slowly eating smaller food portion sizes.
About the Author:
Julia Taylor-Fernandez has written a number of articles on dieting, nutrition and cooking including
General Nutrition,
Meal Plans,
Teapot Cake,
Low Carb Cheese Cake,
Fresh Fruit,
Nutritional Information,
Healthy Appetizers,
Low Carb Dinners,
Health Food Store.
Keep a lookout for more of her articles on this website.
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