Patti Linn's Blog – December 2009 Archive (4)

To keep your portions under control, why not use a smaller plate to keep your serving size down.



Then your choices at the table won't be piled up high to tempt you. Also, remember three ounces of meat is about the size of a deck of cards, one ounce of cheese is about four dice, and 1/2 cup of pasta or grain is about 1/2 of a baseball.



Keeping those portion sizes in mind can help you when you're in line at the buffet table.…





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Instead of reaching for the sugary treats and cheese and crackers this New Years Eve try loading up on the veggies!



Now it's not as much "fun" as the sugary treats at the table, but if you have one choice to overload your plate with, go with the non-starchy vegetables.



Eat them till you're blue in the face. In fact, I'd love if you'd eat plates and plates full of them.



But, to keep yourself full, start every meal with veggies and you'll give your gut-based… Continue

What the eyes do not see the heart does not desire. The subconscious mind is a powerful tool; when under the right control it can be trained to accomplish many goals. If you feed your mind certain commands you can accomplish many things, even great success. Let’s use weight loss as the focus of this instructional:



Things You'll Need:

• A vision

• A written order

• A physical picture

• Patience



1. Step 1

Write a command or order yourself to lose the… Continue

Once upon a time, your choice for a sugar substitute was pretty much limited to one product—saccharin, commonly sold as Sweet'N Low. Twenty-four years after "the pink one" debuted in 1957, aspartame (Equal and NutraSweet) was introduced, and 17 years after that, sucralose (Splenda) gained the approval of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). No other sugar substitute has ever come close to the popularity of the Big Three. But now, a number of natural sweeteners may give those familiar packets… Continue