Healthy Weight Loss

[Mopsie]

Reposting for girl_dee

Originally Posted by Mopsie

Basically it divides up a plate this way:

(Picture your plate like a clock as I describe this)

Divide the clock in half with a line going from 12 to 6. The left side of your clock should be some sort of vegetable (non-starchy).

Now draw another line from the center of the clock to the three. The upper quadrant is lean protein and the lower quadrant is carbs.

Then you also add (off to the side) a serving of dairy and a serving of fruit.

It is an easy visual way to see the amount of food you should have each meal.

Here is a link: http://www.m.webmd.com/diabetes/usin...-with-diabetes

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.

[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.

[Kelt]

Originally Posted by Daktari

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.

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.

Originally Posted by Kelt

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.

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. cheep-cheep-quack!

[girl_dee]

Originally Posted by Daktari

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. cheep-cheep-quack!

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

Originally Posted by girl_dee

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

A salad plate? You don't just have a dinner and side plates? Jeepers! I don't think they taste any different on a dedicated plate.

[Gemme]

Originally Posted by Daktari

A salad plate? You don't just have a dinner and side plates? Jeepers! I don't think they taste any different on a dedicated plate.

But there's so much more!

Slide down to the bottom to see an actual photo/video.

[girl_dee]

Originally Posted by Mopsie

Reposting for girl_dee

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.

[nanners]

Dee!

Here is a link to read about it and but it:

http://www.gleegum.com/sugar-free-gl...FYhAMgodGCcAVA

Also, you can buy it at Amazon.com

Love ya my friend!

[girl_dee]

Originally Posted by nanners

Dee!

Here is a link to read about it and but it:

http://www.gleegum.com/sugar-free-gl...FYhAMgodGCcAVA

Also, you can buy it at Amazon.com

Love ya my friend!

Thanks!!!!