Very many women all their life struggling with excessive weight. What kind of diets and medicines they do not try, what exercises do not torture themselves, but all is vain ... Meanwhile, the secret is simple and it can be expressed in one phrase of the famous ballerina Maya Plisetskaya: "We must eat less!" And speaking more literary language, in order to lose weight, you just need to limit yourself in nutrition. Of course, without fanaticism. So, now you will learn 10 ways to learn to eat less.
1. Eat for a day 5 times !When a person is hungry, he is ready to eat more than necessary. To avoid overeating, you need to eat time 5 times - in small portions.
2. It is necessary to calculate how much calories the body needs . If it became clear that more calories are consumed than burned, you still need to learn to eat less, then there is an occasion to continue reading this article.
3. To drink water.
When you want to eat, aerobatics stop and ask yourself the question: "I really want to eat, but not drink?". With a feeling of hunger, just a glass of water is drunk. You should always carry water with you and drink it from time to time. But not fizzy !!
4. Do not skip breakfast or dinner.
Once again: you have to eat five times a day, five times, but not less. Breakfast does not pass in any way, and dinner even more so. Do not starve! A hungry person eats twice as much. Plus, hunger violates the metabolism.
5. Eat from small plates.
A little bit of food on the big plate looks somehow lonely. The same amount of food on a smaller plate looks bigger. You just need to try.
6. Healthy and light snack.
During the day, you should carry around with you a healthy snack, if possible, for a snack. No chips, no sweets, no bars to anything. Food, taken with you for a snack, often saves. It does not matter if it's a piece of boiled breast with salad and greens or fresh fruit.
7. Eat 15 minutes before your usual meal time.
If before breakfast started at 8 o'clock, now let it start at 7:45, this difference of 15 minutes will help to eat less.
8. Know your portion.
To check the correctness of your diet, you need to conduct the following experiment. Take oatmeal or corn flakes, pour into a plate, now read on the package, what should be a serving. It is safe to say that it will be poured twice as much as the instruction on the package requires. Therefore, you need to monitor the size of their portions.
9. Do not cook more than necessary.
If there is a goal to lose weight, it is necessary to follow and how much food is prepared. No need to cook more than necessary. A little trick: if you still cook a lot, for example, a whole pot of delicious mashed potatoes, you need to put in your plate a serving, and the rest put in the refrigerator on the lid. Cold mashed potatoes will not be so hungry as hot.
10. Cooking at home.
If you want to learn to eat less, you need to cook and eat at home. When the food is prepared at home, it is clear from which to prepare the dish, and there is confidence that the food will be low-calorie. In this case, even an easy-looking salad in a cafe can be dressed with a fat creamy sauce.
It seems that such simple and basic advice, but for some reason it is so difficult to fulfill them! ... In conclusion, one more little trick: get a diary of weight loss. It can be like an ordinary school notebook, or as a LJ-blog. In it, you will celebrate your small victories every day. And reward yourself for it with something. But not tasty! And, for example, a hike in a beauty salon or just a walk or something else pleasant. Happiness is not only in food, believe me!