The Laws of Dieting Success: 1 serving’s smaller than you think
November 28th 2006 07:43
Well…. Except that the amount of food you typically get at a restaurant is crazy big… (talking out Outback, TGIF, McDonalds…) “If you eat just 75 percent of what is in front of you, you are still might be getting too much,” says Tara Gidius, R.D. But the worse is yet to come – the more there is (on our plates), the more we eat – even when the food isn’t appealing.
In a recent study from the Journal of Nutrition Education and Behaviour, researchers gave moviegoers either a medium or large container of popcorn. Some got fresh popcorn; the others got funky, 2-week old popcorn. Not surprisingly, those with the fresh popcorn ate 45 percent more than they had large tubs. But even those with the nasty popcorn ate about as third more…. Why? Because it was there.
So how do you overcome this?
Play mind games
Get used to thinking of your Chinese (or any other meals from restaurant) takeout has two meals, not one, and refrigerate half the moo shoo pork before you even start eating.
And when you play chef, serve up your masterpiece in small plates; less food will look like more, and you’ll have the satisfaction of scraping your plate.
This article is extracted and compiled from Women’s Health 2006
In a recent study from the Journal of Nutrition Education and Behaviour, researchers gave moviegoers either a medium or large container of popcorn. Some got fresh popcorn; the others got funky, 2-week old popcorn. Not surprisingly, those with the fresh popcorn ate 45 percent more than they had large tubs. But even those with the nasty popcorn ate about as third more…. Why? Because it was there.
So how do you overcome this?
Play mind games
Get used to thinking of your Chinese (or any other meals from restaurant) takeout has two meals, not one, and refrigerate half the moo shoo pork before you even start eating.
And when you play chef, serve up your masterpiece in small plates; less food will look like more, and you’ll have the satisfaction of scraping your plate.
This article is extracted and compiled from Women’s Health 2006
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