Trick Yourself
It can be hard to control your food portion sizes. How could you just say ‘no’ to a second helping of your favorite food?
Portion control doesn’t mean going hungry, it just means learning to eat enough to just be satisfied and fueled up for the rest of your day. The differing recommendations as to how much people should eat, and the massive portions restaurants dole out to customers can make trying to eat right and just enough feel like a virtual minefield. The key to finding the right balance for you really is seeing what works for your own body and not following all of the recommendations to the letter of the law.
There are, however, a few ways you can work towards getting your portions to be a bit more precise. Here are 5 tips to eat less (but enough) and healthy at the same time.
3. Eat Delicious-Smelling Foods
If you worry that just a whiff of something delicious will make you want to eat more of it, there’s good news: the more intense the aroma, the smaller the bite you’ll take, according to a study published in the journal Flavour. [1]
For the study, researchers presented 10 participants with vanilla custard. After manipulating the aroma of the rich dessert, the scientists found people actually took smaller bites when the aroma was stronger.
“Smelling food is a really important part of eating well because it’s linked to taste,” says Susan Albers, Psy.D., a psychologist and New York Times bestselling author of Eat Q: Unlock the Weight-Loss Power of Emotional Intelligence. “The good news is that inhaling the aroma before you take a bite is easy and quick.”
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