One of the main sources of weight gain today is overeating. Western culture is based around large, calorie heavy portions. While this food may be delicious, it is detrimentally harmful to your health and weight. Even if you are eating somewhat healthy food, large portions are still not a good idea.
Consider the most common meals you eat. A plate full of pasta, or a burger and fries. All of these meals are calorie heavy and massive portions. Portions are getting larger as time goes on, to boot. If you want to lose weight, you need to work on your portion size.
Many of us feel that eating a smaller portion size leaves us hungry still. While you’re probably telling the truth, you’re speaking too soon. Our stomach’s take up to an hour to react to the food that’s been put inside us. This means your brain is no notified immediately after you finish eating, which is seemingly common sense, but we don’t show our understanding of this truth very commonly.
If you want to lose weight, one of the easiest tips you can embrace is to eat smaller portions of food. Instead of eating a burger and fries and then having a large drink, consider eating just the burger. No matter how much food you eat when hungry, if you give yourself an hour after eating it, you will notice a difference in your stomach.
The best ways to deal with this post meal hunger is to drink lots of water after your meal, or have a warm beverage like tea. I find tea to be the most useful drink in doing this. Also, having smaller meal portions but more portions throughout the day is known to help with speeding up your metabolism and increasing your ability to lose weight. Some people just have snacks throughout the day instead of three large meals. Three large meals is probably the worst thing you can do if you’re trying to lose weight.
On top of weight loss, smaller portions of food may be your key to living longer. When a study was conducted on small groups of people that were out-living the rest of the world, they found one commonality between these people was they chose to eat smaller portions of food throughout the day. So not only are smaller portions making you healthier, they may just help you live a longer, healthier life!
Cole has been writing articles for over five years now and currently studies at a university in British Columbia. At his website Weight Loss Teas Cole also gives information about Oolong Tea Benefits among other things.
