Lost Weight With Portion Distortion

Which one is right? You get more weigh because kind of food you eat or because the portion of food that you take. Recent study show that women who shrank their portions by 25 percent slashed 250 calories a day—enough to help them lose a half-pound a week—and still felt full. So start your diet with this five easy steps.

Trim your trigger foods. Every people have more than one favorite foods. So what you need to do is get to know recommended serving sizes for your favorites, and stick to them as closely as you can.

See Less , eat less. “We eat whatever portion is placed before us,” says David Levitsky, PhD, an obesity researcher at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. So the trick is to avoid seeing more food than you want to eat.

Shrink your plate, try eating dinner on smaller side plates; you’ll have less to eat.

Create your own after-meal ritual. Brush your teeth. Chew a piece of sugarless gum. Or sip a hot drink like tea or sugar-free cocoa. These rituals can be cues to stop eating and should help curb the impulse to indulge in seconds or dessert.

Try practicing mind over munching. Overeating is often a psychological problem. These mind game may help: Think of meat and pasta as side dishes. For instance, fill half your plate with broccoli and cauliflower, a quarter with chicken, and a quarter with linguine.