Hello all,
As you have read before sometimes portion control or lack of portion control can be a problem. My biggest issue is getting enough food in before dinner time so that I'm not putting my body into starvation mode. But there are days where you go out to a nice sit down meal and over eat.
So today I made myself proud. A co-worker and I went to a local pasta restaurant. I didn't do my normal thing of having 3-5 bread sticks, salad, all my meal, and dessert. Today I ordered Chicken Parmesan which comes with salad and bread sticks. I started with a big serving of salad. Eating all that I could only ate 1/2 a bread stick with it. Then when my meal came out I cut it in half, Thinking "Hey if I split this in half I won't have that icky full feeling and then I'll have this for lunch tomorrow:)". I did eat the half a bread stick and a additional one for a total of 2. Then when we were done I happily had the waiter wrap up the rest of my meal with 2 bread sticks and called it good. What did I do differently you ask? Before I went in I told myself that I will eat more veggies and half my meal. I wouldn't need the dessert because I had a raspberry lemonade instead (only drank half). I told myself that, that was ENOUGH for me to survive for this meal. That I didn't need to over do it.
Now.... the mini challenge is to do this at every take out meal. Know that places give you 2-3X the portion size you should be having. Take that extra minute to relax, separate your food or draw a line visually and DON'T eat past that.
It's hard... but I will win this fight.
1 comment:
good for you! Any little step helps and it seems like you will do great. You just have to remember what you said and say it everytime you go to a resturant.
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