Portion Control Explained
Managing the serving sizes of the food you eat can be a simple and easy way of maintaining a healthy weight and when necessary weight loss. This article will break down the concepts of portion control to help you better understand how The Diet Plate can help you lose or maintain a healthy weight.
Serving Sizes
Portion control helps you to better gauge the appropriate serving sizes for food. This in turn helps you to avoid overeating and taking on more energy than you need, this helps to maintain a healthy weight as well as lose any excess weight caused by overeating or eating the wrong portion sizes for specific foods.
Energy
The energy in food is measured in units of kilojoules. Consuming more kilojoules than you burn is a basic yet true cause of weight gain. Portion control helps you to effectively limit your kilojoule intake which in turn allows you to maintain a healthy weight, or lose weight. So, with portion control, you can eat a variety of foods and maintain an interesting and balanced diet while ensuring you're consuming the appropriate amount for your gender, age and weight.
Weight Loss
As previously mentioned, portion control can be a method to lose excess weight caused by overeating or excessive eating of higher calorie foods. Portion control helps you "reset" the portions you are consuming and helps you establish positive portion habits when it comes to all varieties of foods. By "leaning out" your energy intake through portion control you can cause the body to utilise stored energy reserves (fat) which will then cause your body to lose weight. The advantage of portion control over standard diets is that the food you are eating is balanced, healthy and nutritious and your body isn't being starved of a particular food group or nutrition source. It also makes being disciplined easier as you can still eat the foods you enjoy but in more reasonable quantities.
Another advantage is that when a suitable weight is reached, portion control can then be adjusted to maintain this weight and requires no more change than adjusting the serving sizes you are eating so your energy intake is balanced with your body's nutrient requirements.
Weight Management
Using portion control for weight management can be suitable after weight has been lost by being on a strict diet or after weight loss surgery. Others may use portion control because they have noticed slight weight gains possibly due to age, change in physical activity or some other cause.
Portion control works well as a "weight management technique" because it allows for an interesting, nutritious and healthy diet whilst keeping calorie intake under control. Portion control can be managed via a weight loss product such as The Diet Plate or by measuring serving sizes in relation to their calorie value.
Healthy Eating & Nutrition
Healthy eating means eating in a way that allows you to obtain all the nutrients you need from food, within an energy limit that allows you to achieve and maintain a healthy weight. For most people foods such as non starchy vegetable can be increased in the diet. For those who need to lose weight, other food groups may need to be eaten in smaller portions.
The Cheapest Weight Loss Option
One last advantage of portion control is the cost. Compared to other weight options: weight loss groups, food suppliments, diet pills, gym memberships, weight loss surgery, fad diets etc. Portion control presents a weight loss and weight management solution that cost nothing but time, discipline and the regular cost of your food bill. By eating less high calorie foods and eating more low calorie foods you will find even though some "healthier foods" might seem more expensive in the mix things will even out.