Portion Control Diet - Why it is Still the Most Affective

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Now lets’ look at the common favorite, pizzas. We all know that if we order a meat lovers or something with a lot of cheese that we are definitely going to be consuming too much calories for our own good. We should then look to order something healthy like a veggie pizza right? Well, that would be wrong. Take a look at Pizza Hut’s Veggie Lovers Stuffed Crust Pizza. It packs a whopping 840 calories and has a total of 8.5 teaspoons of fat too. I believe even eating half of what you normally eat of these pizzas you’d still be eating far too much.

This trend of having unhealthy and high calorie “healthy offerings” is reflected with many other fast food outlets too. The biggest whoppers are the Mexican style fast food restaurants. The Dos Manos Enchilada-Style Burrito which is also marketed as a healthy alternative weighs a whopping 62 oz and packs over 3,300 calories per serve with over 60 grams of saturated fat. People in less developed nations will normally consume that same level of calories over three days instead of in just one seating!

The trick to working with a portion diet with fast food restaurants is to know that all the food that they produce in inherently bad for you. You must understand that you will always underestimate the number of calories that you will eat especially with these fast food restaurants putting in so much fat to make their foods tastier. With fast food even with the portion diet you should try to reduce the amount of time you have your meals there, the amount of saturated and trans fat they use can even clog the arteries of the sewer system.

If you are in a hurry and need food quickly then you can certainly go to fast food restaurants for a quick bite but be aware that you are going to eat just a little too much calories for your own good. Be very ready to eat just half of any portion that you order and either doggy-bag the rest of even throw it away. If you must have something more solid go for thin crust pizzas with as little cheese as possible. If you want to get real full then you have to stuff yourself with vegetables from the salad, but go easy on the dressing.

The Portion Rules when Eating Out

Units
The first thing that you must remember is the unit rule which basically governs how we were brought up to eat and thus also governs how to perceive a portion of food. It is as simple as this, the bigger the plate or container that we use the more we will eat. People are brought up to eat in units and generally always follow a set standard. For example, a unit would be one sandwich, one bowl of soup, one cookie etc. The problem is that the one sandwich or whatever food can be as huge yet we are still driven to finish the sandwich even if we are already full.

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