Do One Thing to Lose Weight and Keep it Off

 

If I could give you just one clue how to lose weight and keep it off - stay at your set point - it would be to get rid of dinner plates!

European dinner plates are 8 to 8-1/2". American plates are 11" and restaurant plates are 12".

I didn't want to count calories and other forever bullshit monitoring. I wanted to eat like a normal person and stay slender. We used to do it easily in America, and now it's such a land of excess that we assume that whatever we are served on a dinner plate or in a restaurant is a portion size. It's not. Pretty much all meals are around 1000 calories and more. 

I have only 8" dessert plates in my home. I have no big dinner plates. When you have a big plate, you cover it with food (more calories). When you have a smaller plate, you eat what's on its surface (much less).

It seems like a silly shift, but not having those big plates got me down 37 pounds and makes it easier to "diet" wherever I am. If I'm in a restaurant I order an appetizer or if I order a meal, I immediately box up half of it for the next evening.

Remember, you stomach is about the size of your fist. If you eat more volume than that, you get that "busting stomach overstuffed" feeling. That is not full. That is tank spilling over full. 

Here's some 8-1/2-inch plates. This is the size Europeans dine on. You wonder how the French stay slender eating butter and cheese? Well - 

PLATES