Portion Control!
I find it a bit funny that I am writing about Portion Control on the Eve of the 4th of July! But seriously, if you planed to just pig out like there was no tomorrow, I say go for it!
First I will be honest… WHAT THE **** IS PORTION CONTROL? Because here I am writing about portion control when seriously I don’t have a clue what exactly what it is suppose to mean… But I will take a lucky guess, might be wrong, so feel free to correct me: It is eating enough to survive but not enough to be considered a pig! Am I close?
My mother in law love this french saying that goes : Il faut manger pour vivre, pas vivre pour manger. It was in a famous play and translate into English it state : You have to eat to live, not live to eat. And until last year I can honestly tell you I was doing the exact opposite, I was living to eat, not eat to live!
I believe I am not the only one that did this or still doing this… if I am, **** that is sad! Till one year ago when I hit my high of 335 lbs, and saw my wedding and honeymoon pictures, I was eating till I felt my stomach is full… You know that point where you know if you were stupid enough to put just another bite in your mouth you are going to live to regret it. Or basically, you feel that you are fool: either by being sick, sleepy, etc.
That was my trigger to know I have eaten enough, but then I realize, maybe I am going at this the wrong way! I am sure by now you realize that I am not going at this like a scientific and using bunch of crazy words to say something right?
Good because this is from the point of view of ME, you know the FAT GUY, and what I thought was a great way to control MY PLATE and so far it freaking works! Might not work for you, so remember to find you own thing… I am only a fat ass talking!
Now back on the subject… oh yeah, me eating till I had to puke was my trigger to know that it was enough! Ok, I heard of chewing slowly, never tried it. To me, seating down and eating for an hour gets on my nerves. I am usually the first one done eating, but hey give it a try, might work for you. Drink water, tried that in the past… I just end up puking more water then food! Calorie counting… great stuff and I swear by it, but since I can’t be walking around with a scale all the time, it was kinda getting in the way! Sorry but those websites have no idea what Haitian food usually contains as calorie:rolleyes:
Now what works for me: I just freaking dealt with it. Meaning, I started slowly but surely cutting bike. I did not like it at first, heck I hated it… but you know what, I also started to need less and less food to feel me up! Also snacking work great! Hey before you go and be eating candy like they are going out of style for snack and say I told you so… I mean HEALTHY SNACK!
You know, apple, banana, tomatoes, carrot sticks… yes, those things that your mama had to force you to it! Now you got to force yourself to eat it! You might hate it, I know you will, but believe me, it does your body some good! I am not sure it does, but alot of doctors say it does and I am sure their MD is better reference then my fat ass!
So yeah, portion control is quite simple, I don’t get the big issue! You just eat less then what you usually eat and try not to eat like food is running out (even if the media wants you to believe that).
So again here are a few things:
-> Drinking plenty of water (I drink water but not to make me less hungry, but hey might work for you) because they say that sometimes you are just thirsty not hungry! I disagree with that one because I know when I am hungry and when I am thirsty…and there is no way in hell I can confuse them!
-> Take a first plate smaller then usual instead of adding enough food to feed a family of 5. That is for people going to eat at those all you can eat buffet’s. You know you can always go back right, no need to fill up your first plate so much that 2 people need to carry it!
-> People talk about making 1/3 of the plate salad, 1/3 protein, 1/3 carb or something like that. I say eat the boring stuff first, boring meaning salad, veggies, etc… you know the stuff that us FAT NATION tend to stay away from. Fill you stomach up with that first, then go back for the good stuff, you know the greasy fatty heart attack worthy stuff, later on, most likely to eat less of it and not as tempted to eat to much.
-> Calorie counting, good stuff if you have the patience and time for it. And use a scale, not the measurements cups!
-> And remember… unless you are at a house/party where there is only enough food for 5 when there is 15 of us there, there is no reason to be eating like the food is about to run out.
P.S: FAT guy personal opinion expressed! You got issue with it, I got issue with my ass… so beat it!
