Simple Steps To Losing Weight

A survey of people said that the kind of food you eat matters more than how much you eat when you’re trying to lose weight. New research on portion control found 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.

Below are some simple steps you can take to put this into reality.

1. Trim your favorite food/snacks.
Most people overeat two or three favorite foods usually pastas, breads, meats, snacks, or sweets. It may be that we love the taste, munch mindlessly watching a movie, or you are an emotion eater. Learn the correct serving sizes for your favorites, and stick to them as closely as you can.

For instance a serving of fish should be the size of a checkbook, a serving of steak should be no bigger than the palm of your hand, and a potato serving should be no bigger than your fist. If these portions sound small eat a few spoonfuls less of rice and pasta, or go with half a sandwich instead of a whole. Cutting portions of foods with hefty calories helps you cut calories, and fewer calories equal fewer pounds. As long as you don’t go over-board, this simple lifestyle change lets you eat almost anything .

2. Put less on the plate:
We eat whatever portion is placed before us. Remember we were all taught from childhood clean your plate. So the trick is to avoid seeing more food than you want to eat. By immediately putting away food after serving the right-size portions, you are able to skip second helpings thus reducing a huge number of calories.

When you go out to eat before you are served ask for a to go plate and remove 1/2 of it before you take the first bite. This in effect cuts your calories in 1/2 and the to go plate can be eaten next day for lunch saving you money as well. Be smart with this approach for snacks. Place a small amount of pretzels in a bowl instead of grazing from bags or boxes. And freeze tempting treats like brownies. Get the extra food out of sight.

3.Use smaller plates:
Start eating on smaller plates you’ll have less to eat. You can fool the mind to thinking you are getting more than actually are because the smaller plate looks full so we aren't feeling cheated. Using bigger plates you will always overeat the portion size as it looks much smaller on the bigger plate.

These simple steps will curb enough calories from you daily intake you will lose 1/2 a pound a week without feeling like your missing something or being punished.

Add some weight training, weight loss supplements, and cardio in the program and you will be amazed at the results.

Think about it 1/2 pound a week 2 pounds a month 24 pounds a year. Doesn't sound like much but this is pretty much the way you put it on why not take it off the same way.

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