i remember Oprah talked about her weight loss once.. Said she was at a plateau for a while..she change one thing.. No eating after 6pm. It worked. She said she would rush home to get done eating by 6 and that got her going again.

i also heard that you should have a little protein before bedtime to keep metabolism up during the sleeping fast.......

However......Cereal and a glass of milk isn't protein lol.

Where can you get this?

i'm interested in this.....could you explain?

ETA I googled this- smart way to eat!

Reposting for girl_dee

[QUOTE=Daktari;822158]My version of a plate diet is to use a side-plate, not a full-size dinner plate.

It comes from many moons ago when I was teaching m'self to eat in public again...after years of anorexic/bulimic hiding away and refusing to eat with people.



i like using small plates myself. It's a good way to tone down portions.

Thank you!

for me cutting out processed foods is key, when i do i always feel better. High protein low carb.

i just read somewhere that even cutting back carbs twice per week will help tremendously.

Glee Gum
 

:mohawk:Thanks!!!!

Smaller plates/bowls is something I adopted when I started my weight loss 3 years ago and I still eat this way. I find it a lot more satisfying (mentally) to have a big heaping plate and know that I get all of it than to have a small pittance on a giant (American sized) plate.

I got mine very inexpensively open stock at an Ikea store.

American plates are now 11-12 inches, euro 7-9. Mine are 7.

My grandmothers china has 8 inch dinner plates. That is how much things have changed in a short time. No wonder we eat more, and we are a lot less active.

:cheesy:

You can get Glee Gum or Spry Gum online, at Whole Foods, or at local indi or health markets.

I wanted to share with y'all the paper they gave me at the High Risk Obesity Clinic about plate and portion control. I have this posted to my fridge. It is what I referred to when I said I knew what Mopsie was talking about. It helped me to be able to visualize servings and how I should be eating.

I also switched to luncheon plates quite awhile back. My main thing is portion control and this guide definitely helps.

http://www.webmd.com/diet/printable/...rol-size-guide

I was doing some reading and thought I would share a small snippet. I haven't seen this mentioned in here before.

Compensatory mechanisms

The human body is very “smart” and has a strong innate drive to keep us alive and to maintain the status quo. When we cut calories without exercising, our metabolism decreases, and proteins like leptin set off the drive to eat more.

Likewise, when we exercise at the same time as we cut calories, the metabolic efficiency of exercise often increases so that we burn fewer calories for the same amount of exercise.

Meanwhile, we also want to eat more – and, without even meaning to, we may reduce our non-exercise activity thermogenesis (NEAT).

For example, maybe after a long, tough workout you decide to go through the drive-thru instead of cooking. Even if you choose healthy food, it doesn’t take much energy to get it. Meanwhile, if you’re a 150 pound male, you could have burned roughly 136 calories by cooking for one hour (2). That may not sound like a lot, but if in addition to going to the drive-thru, you also let the kids walk the dog and the dishwasher wash the dishes, and then you drive to the corner for your mail instead of walking, the calorie-burn edge of your workout is completely lost.

As this example demonstrates, it’s tough to capture everything that goes into our energy balance equation and this presents a puzzle for researchers trying to understand the relationship between exercise and weight loss.

I have caught myself doing this more than I care to admit and it can really effect results. It's very easy to say to myself "I killed it on the beach today, this other stuff can wait" and easy as that, lose some of my results.

Just a thought.

So 7 is my cut off time. ( thank you Syr :| )

Hope this helps me break my bad habit..

i have been known to eat middle of the night and wake up to find empty wrappers or half a sammich ...

Crazy stuff !

Really, US dinner plates are so much bigger? :|
Not sure where you got those figures but I've never seen a dinner plate quite that small on my visits to various European places.

Your figures have just spurred me to measure the various styles of dinner plates I have. They range from 10in with 7in usable space to 11in with 8in usable space. I don't count the 'rims' as usable. These are a 'normal' size over here in my experience.

My larger side plates are 8in with 6.5in usable space and the smaller ones 7in with 5.5in usable. These are a perfect size for what mates call my 'bird' portions. :cheesy: cheep-cheep-quack! :duck:

US plates are humongous ! i prefer to use really small, like a salad plate, and enjoy a second 'serving' ...