One of the biggest problems with people’s diets is the fact that they are putting too much food on their plates.  One study suggested that just switching from the bigger 12” plates down to a 9” plate can save people at least 5 pounds a year.  It is nothing more than self control that needs to be exhibited.

People are so used to filling their plate until it is dripping off of the rim that they have no idea how to control their portions.  These bad habits are often formed during childhood when children were encouraged to clean their plates.  By learning portion control and by using something like the Salter kitchen scale, people will be able to control their food intake and keep their weight under control.

The stomach is a very funny thing.  If it becomes full, it expands and creates more room.  Over time, it grows because it is used to that amount of food that is being consumed.  Oddly enough, using a digital kitchen scale can help control this process because people will be eating controlled portions and their stomach will eventually compensate and shrink because of the smaller amounts of food being ingested.

If people can show any self control at all, they should get a digital kitchen scale and pre-measure all of their meals.  Now they will have a perfect amount of food to feel satisfied without becoming too full. The secret to a healthy life does not lie with some miracle diet, it lies within portion control.

One of the most frustrating things that one can experience when they are on a diet is having too much or too little food.  People do not realize how easy it is to over eat even when you think you are monitoring everything that you consume.  You wonder why last night you felt like you ate a house and tonight you are climbing the walls looking for something to munch on.  A digital kitchen scale can help you with that.

Once you body gets used to eating a certain amount, it will tend to either be satisfied when it hits that spot or want more when you come up short.  In the beginning days of a diet, when you are cutting back, it will be quite normal to feel some hunger pains as your stomach adjusts to the new intake amounts, but this should not be happening weeks and months into the food plan.

One of the major downfalls of people is that they don’t measure out their food portions.  You are on a diet and only supposed to be eating 8 oz of your entrée, but you never check it. You just order 2 pounds of chicken from the grocery store and eat a portion regardless of how big or small it is.  This is a critical error on any diet.

Believe it or not, you can actually be costing yourself a lot of money when you do this.  What if all of the portions are 10oz portions?  You have dinner over the next 4 nights and are not only eating too much, but you are also costing yourself an entire night’s dinner.  If you would have taken the time to use your digital kitchen scale, you would have noticed that the portions were more than your diet called for and could have cut off the extra 2oz to have dinner for a 5^th night.

Now of course you are wondering what you could possibly make with all of those chicken scraps that are cutting off because the electronic kitchen scale told you the pieces were too big.  What can you not make?  Small pieces of chicken are great for things like tacos, gumbos, soups and stir fry.  You would actually be doing part of your prep work every night.

The next thing to figure out is how you are going to save all of this so that it doesn’t go bad while you are trimming off the fat so to speak.  A tip that I learned a long time ago was to prepare all of my food when it is first delivered and then put it into food saver bags and freeze it.

When you do this, you are accomplishing two things.  The first and most important is that you are saving money by getting the right portions.  The second is that you are making life a lot easier down the road.  Now instead of coming home from work and dreading cooking dinner, all you need to do is open up the fridge and take the marinated item that you pre-seasoned and throw it in a pan.  By doing this, your diet will stay on track and you can cut 15-30 minutes off of your dinner prep time every night.