Diva Tip: Bowls instead of plates.

Some of you want to start off the New Year by losing weight, which is common every New Year.  Some do it naturally, others try diet plans or programs.  And therea girls who think its ok to starve themselves to an early grave just to lose weight (something I clearly don't recommend).  Every time we eat a meal whether it's breakfast, lunch or dinner, we tend to fill our plates in larger portions, we might have a temptation of having everything we see that's appealing to us by the sight, the aroma and the taste.  This is the habit we have since we're little girls when we first started eating solid foods.  We care more about the taste more than nutrition.  Sometimes we overstuff our plates and eat more than we can digest, sometimes we skip breakfast and go on to eating lunch and ignoring dinner.  These are the kind of cycles we need to stop.

So for this week's tip, we're going to use bowls instead of plates.  Why?  They can cut meal portion size in half.  When on a diet, we are told to eat meals at small portions, but we don't know how much or how little.  When we use plates, we don't know how much we going eat and it could be tempting to overstuff our plates.  With bowls, you know exactly how much meal you're filling. 

Use regular sized bowls to eat meals with.  No bigger bowls like mixing bowls, that's cheating.  No small bowls either, that's shaming yourself.   Use any regular sized bowl as a measuring instrument.  Fill your bowls with food.  You meal must not reach above the rim of your bowl, it shows that you're eating too much.  Your meal must be filled 1/8 below the rim.  Never fill your meal only at the base of your bowl like a 1/4 full or smaller that shows that you're eating too little.

When you go out, make sure you bring a disposal paper bowl with you.  You can bring a heat resistant plastic bowl with you, when having lunch at work (Remember to clean your bowl when you're done eating lunch).  At a restaurant, ask the waitstaff worker to serve your meals in bowls only.

Here's the factor in daily meals.  3 meals a day, 4 snacks a day and water in between.  You read me right, 4 snacks.  You are allowed to eat snacks as long as they're healthy.  So never mind what people said about not snacking between meals.  Has it worke for them?  I bet not.  You can eat what you want, but make sure you eat in moderation.  3 meals in bowls only, 4 small snacks, and 8 ounces of water 8 times a day (preferably spring water).

Try this tip and you won't feel starved or missing out on what you love to eat and it could help you lose weight as long as you add exercise and physical activity to the mix.

Remember, you don't have to be rich and famous to be a diva, being yourself is what a diva is all about.  Blessings.