Thursday, March 21, 2013

Healthy Students on a Budget: Portion Control

What's up boys and girls!!

Today were going to talk about portion control.  Why is it important?

Well if you are able to portion your food sizes, you are able to consume lower calories.

With the help of cooking light, we develop some great ideas.

We will be talking about different tips on controlling your portions.

1) Increasing your intake in vegetables over bread.  Bread has a lot of calories due to the large amount of carbs.  If you increase your amount of vegetables and decrease the amount of carbs can really help with weight control.

2) Using smaller plates as your main dish can help with portion control.  It sounds weird, but if you use a smaller plate compared to a bigger one, your consuming less.

3) If you are the grocery shopper in the house you have the power on what the family consumes, if you are increasing the amount of fruits and veggies within the house, compared to junk food.  You are controlling how much junk food is in the house.

4) Eating more smaller meals throughout the day, can help you never become hungry.

5) Don't skip breakfast, eating breakfast is the most important meal of the day.  This is due to you were sleeping for the last 8 hours, so you haven't ate any food in those 8 hours.  By eating breakfast you will be less hungry for lunch, meaning you will consume less calories for lunchtime.


With these great tips, you can lower your overall caloric intake.  Therefore making you to lose some weight.

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