The size of the plate you use has a massive impact on how much you eat. Here is the reason. Whatever amount of food is served on a plate is perceived as a portion by your mind. If you serve a meal on a ten inch plate then you will eat until it is all gone, because that is a portion. When you change to an eight inch plate (assuming you don't stack it vertically with food) the mind will adapt, over time, to the new smaller portion size and you will eat about twenty per cent less food. Exactly the same rules apply to bowls. It is a well-established fact that the bigger the container you use, the more you will eat. Now you know why there is nothing left in your extra-large box of popcorn when you come out of the cinema - unconscious eating at its very best. [...] * Read The Full Article To Discover The Effective Tips to Lose the Pounds (Weight Loss Guaranteed)
The great thing about this tip, which by the way I have used and continue to use to this day after losing 60lbs, is that it is not restrictive like a diet.
No one is telling you what you can and cannot eat, so the subconscious mind has nothing to rebel against, it simply adapts over a period of time to the new portion size because that is what your mind is designed to do, it's called the law of adaptivity and we are hard-wired for it.
I will give you little example of the law and it will help you understand what I am talking about.
Let's say your wife puts a dent in the car (men would never do that yeah right)for the first week or two you notice it every time you look at the car, then after a while you stop noticing it and it just seems to become part of the background, this is the law of adaptivity at work.
Exactly the same law applies to the tip I have given you, the only reason you might have a tiny bit of resistance to doing this is that the subconscious mind like things to stay the same... that's its job.
The wonderful thing about the mind is that once it has picked up the new pattern of you using smaller containers it will adapt and make you feel as if this is something you have always done.
So my challenge to you from someone who has lost weight and kept it off and has been there and done that, is to go and buy the eight inch plate and the smaller bowls, give this tip an honest trial of about a month or two and I guarantee you will see the effect on your weight.
My name is Grahame Cossum and I specialise in empowering people
at myThinRU weight loss clinic to lose weight and in the process change
their own lives. I am a Behavior change coach, NLP practitioner and I am
also the founder of the ThinRU weight loss system. http://www.theweightlossclinic.net Full details of the program can be found at http://www.hypnobandclinic.net. Don't wait for weight loss-It's time to get your life back.
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