How to Reduce Meal Portions to Hopefully Lose Weight

About 25 years ago, restaurants started creating meals containing huge portions of food. Two egg omelets became four egg omelets, single patty hamburgers became double and triple patty hamburgers. Consequently, people today have lost any concept of what a normal size food portion is. Eating smaller portions and smaller meals will help you lose weight. Here is what smaller portions means:

Difficulty: Challenging

Instructions

1. Make multiple meals out of one restaurant meal. Split your meal with someone else or split it in half or thirds to save for another meal or two. One meal could be just the vegetables. Another meal could be the bread and salad. Another meal can be the entrée only.

2. Eat one small item for your work lunch. For example, just eat a bowl of soup or one side vegetable with 2 packs of crackers. Do not eat a "lunch plate" - an entrée, two sides, bread and butter and a cookie. That’s three meals not one!

3. Buy single servings of desserts, instead of buying an entire cake or pie. Then, only eat two bites of the single serving each day, so it lasts you four or five days.

4. Kill the sweet tooth with one piece of hard candy.

5. When cooking at home, make a meal out of one side. For instance, steam some fresh broccoli and put some cheese on it and that’s the entire meal – well, plus two bites of your single serving dessert or your piece of hard candy.

6. When confronted with a buffet, only get one or two bites of the food items you want. This means little teeny tiny portions. Only fill one plate, not two. Do not fill a salad plate or go back for seconds.

7. Make a meal out of an appetizer.

8. Make a meal out of some great fresh bread and butter.

9. Make a meal out of cheese, crackers, fruit and nuts.

10. Do not order double or triple anything!