| Want to lose weight healthfully and keep it off? | | | | salad full of fresh salad greens and veggies, beans |
| Then you need to forget one common healthy | | | | and maybe even a little fruit, there's no need to |
| weight loss myth that pervades all the | | | | eat small portions. We need to eat as many |
| mainstream weight loss media out there, which | | | | greens and veggies as we comfortably can to |
| tells us we should eat off small plates in order to | | | | promote healthy weight loss, not just a tiny |
| eat less and therefore lose weight. | | | | plateful now and then. These delicious, healthy |
| Forget this healthy weight loss advice because it's | | | | foods contain nutrients not found in those |
| dead wrong! | | | | burgers, steaks and cakes that our bodies need |
| While it may make sense in theory to reduce | | | | to thrive and become thin and healthy, and we |
| what we eat by creating visual cues, in reality all | | | | can eat them to our heart's content without |
| this dieting "rule" does is keep many, many | | | | worrying about their impact on our waistlines, |
| women struggling to find small enough plates to | | | | much less our health. And when we're able to eat |
| eat their cake off of while they lament not losing | | | | large portions, we're not forced to feel like |
| weight in the process! | | | | something is missing from our lives in the same |
| While on the one hand we don't like to think about | | | | way. |
| giving up our unhealthy food vices, the reality is | | | | When most of the foods you eat are healthy |
| that if all you're eating on an ongoing basis is really | | | | plant-based foods, they are naturally low in |
| unhealthy food -- say, cheeseburgers, steaks, | | | | calories, and you can have all you are hungry for. |
| cakes and gooey lasagna -- then yes, do | | | | And because they are high in fiber, they tell your |
| whatever it takes to eat less of them. If it takes | | | | body when to stop eating by filling you up, rather |
| an optical illusion for you to eat fewer calories of | | | | than you having to tell your brain when to stop |
| the bad stuff, so be it! Those foods, even in small | | | | via an empty plate. |
| amounts, take away from your overall health, | | | | The next time you are considering what to eat, |
| often drain your body of much-needed energy | | | | figure in a large portion of your favorite green |
| and contribute to your current weight challenge. | | | | veggies, and fill up on that before having any of |
| But if you're actually interested in healthy weight | | | | the less healthy foods. You'll see a difference in |
| loss that you can enjoy along the way and | | | | your energy, your health and your waistline. And |
| sustain over the long haul, this little brain teaser of | | | | that's the basis of truly healthy weight loss. |
| smaller plates is silly. You see, when you eat a | | | | |