You always hear, when it comes to a diet, that less is supposed to be more. Generally, what this means in terms of dieting is that you should practice portion control and that you will get fuller faster and have to essentially eat less to be satisfied.
But other diets have preached about eating more smaller meals (check out an earlier blog entry I wrote about how eating more, smaller meals does not necessarily speed up weight loss).
Finding the balance between eating "less" and "more" can be tricky-if you eat too little, your body hungers and you get hunger pangs, typically resulting in you snacking (or gorging) on guilty pleasure foods instead of a healthy, well thought-out option. So what do you do?
Eat a full meal until your...well...full, or eat a smaller meal, slower, and hope that fills you?
I'm on a new "healthy snack" kick where no matter what I eat for my three meals a day, I am trying very very hard to snack on only healthy things. Some examples of my healthy snacks this month have been:
* baby carrots (surprisingly sweet and delicious!)
* celery with peanut butter (yuck, I hate celery, but it's OK with peanut butter)
* almonds
* cheese sticks
I've tried to eliminate the cheese sticks because I'm trying to eat less dairy in the warmer weather (something about it bothers me), but the other snacks have served to not only tie me over in between meals, but more importantly make me feel good about the foods I'm consuming! I eat one snack in the morning and one at night.
The snacks are "less" but by eating "more" of them, I am less full throughout the day.
What do YOU think? Is less more?
posted @ Thursday, May 06, 2010 8:53 AM