This is probably pointing out the obvious to many of you, but in case you haven't read about it, swapping to smaller plates makes a big difference. Apparently 20-30 years ago we had much smaller dinner plates, and so put less on them. Well, I had to replace our crockery set recently (due to what I believe is called 'wastage' but in our house is more realistically called 'Oh b***er, I dropped another one') and I searched and searched until I found plates that were only 19.5 cm in diameter instead of the now common 25-26 cm. We replaced our entire motley collection, even the bowls, and hey presto, we did indeed find we ate less.
In fact, our food bill has gone down because I am cooking smaller quantities. One son has lost 4kg, I've lost 1kg, and husband is at least maintaining his weight, despite being almost permanently away on business trips.
You're quite right and congratulations to you and your family for those great figures.
Fortunately for me when I joined back in January and I read the NHS 12 week plan, I didn't just scan it as I normally would and that was one of the many great tips that it offers up.
If you haven't had a chance to read it yet, you'll find many other useful tips.
Congratulations! I'm glad the new plates are having such a positive effect.
Personally, I can't bear to give up my plates (they're hand-me-downs from a great aunt that I've always loved) so I've gone to setting my plate on the kitchen scale when I serve food so I can see exactly how much I've put on it!
Actually do/did both. Back to normal plates nowadays but the psychology of the smaller plate helped (or so I believe) at the time. i still weigh most stuff, like you say, by zeroing out the plate first.
It would be interesting to know what you consider 'normal plates'? We are using plates that used to be considered 'normal' before the manufacturers and restaurants started upsizing us so I think we're now using normal, not large. What made you decide to swap back?
For me now, normal is just a plate that isn't a side plate. The cupboard is full of plates of different sizes, so it's whatever's to hand.
I moved back to them after reaching my maintain weight. 6 months of measuring and being able to visualise what 'makes sense'. Doesn't mean I do the right thing all the time
I've been thinking about changing our plates also. At the moment we have big squarish plates, which I know I put too much food on. Hubby has even said recently that I tend to serve up more than he can eat.
I might check out the op-shops for a couple of plates and give it a try before forking out for a whole new set.
I like the double bonus of weight loss and reduced grocery bill
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