1. Posted by A Yahoo! Health User on Mon, Sep 19, 2005, 7:33 pm PDT

I just wanted to say you are truely right...It is all a matter of how much you eat...Not really what you are eating...I have learned that if I just watch my portion size I remain my size....Thank you for your article

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2. Posted by A Yahoo! Health User on Mon, Sep 19, 2005, 10:35 pm PDT

Can you please give tips on how to adjust for small servings.

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3. Posted by A Yahoo! Health User on Mon, Sep 19, 2005, 11:01 pm PDT

After trying every diet there is out there, I have finally come around to portion control. This has been my attempt the last 6 months. It's been slow going; it's not easy to break old habits. But I keep coming around to it and remembering it when I forget. I just keep telling myself that I'm changing long-term habits, and not be focused on my weight now. I find more and more that I just plain can't stand the feeling of feeling TOO full anymore. I suspect I love feeling the way I feel with the right amount of food, that's when change will happen. More and more it's just plain uncomfortable to eat too much. Great changes are happening. I no longer eat a bag of potato chips, but a 1/2 one. I used to down a pint of ice cream, now I find myself with the pint and a spoon, and putting it away after 1/2 c to 1 c, feeling like that was enough. It's fabulous to see the changes, the small ones, though I don't see a change in my weight yet. But I just want you to know that I get it now. It's all about how much, not what. I'm after the long-term changes, not the short-term ones, which I suspect might take patience.

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4. Posted by A Yahoo! Health User on Tue, Sep 20, 2005, 6:31 am PDT

proper diet and proper exercise is most effectivebut before doing so as your doctor for an safety health advice and proper checkup

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5. Posted by A Yahoo! Health User on Tue, Sep 20, 2005, 6:34 am PDT

I think that portion does have a lot to do with it. I noticed that since I started t diet I watch or wait to see what my body is telling me. Sure it is always hard to pass up food that is in front of you, but your body does have a way of telling you when you are full. I found that when I give a big sigh such as relieve as one may want to put it that is when I am done. Also eating fruit or drinking water also adds to portion control as I see. I use to weigh about 200 pounds now i am down to 160 yeah not that much at the moment. However, I think 40 pounds in this short amount of time is good. You have to remain active and just know that cutting down on what you eat is not going to be the only way to lose those extra pounds. Go walking for a half hour everyother day or do some strenth training. I found that when I combine this in my daily life style I feel better throughout the day and then by the end of the night I am ready to go to bed and get some rest.

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6. Posted by A Yahoo! Health User on Tue, Sep 20, 2005, 7:10 am PDT

I am currently trying to lose 50 pounds and I am trying portion control and adding exercise I go to curves 5\6 times a week it is a lot slower than the other ways I have tried but a lot easier to matain.

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7. Posted by A Yahoo! Health User on Tue, Sep 20, 2005, 7:12 am PDT

anglicprincess -- You are right on! I lost 30 in 6 weeks with "portion control" and a little excercise. To get my portions down, I made a normal plat of food and just cut it in half. Then a few hrs later or the next day ate the other half. Now my portions are under control and I eat what I want!

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8. Posted by A Yahoo! Health User on Tue, Sep 20, 2005, 9:02 am PDT

I like food. Boy do I like food.

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9. Posted by A Yahoo! Health User on Tue, Sep 20, 2005, 9:05 am PDT

Gee, what took everyone else so long to catch on to what Weight Watchers has been about all these years!! It's probably the best thing going out there for weight loss and maintenance of weight loss. It teaches you to figure out why you want to overeat and when,proper nutrition, exercise, and portion control. Unfortunately people have this negative picture of a "public" weigh-in (totally wrong, they are very discreet and only if you want to share that information in a group meeting is anyone aware of your weight). Their meetings are the opportunity to share food preparation discoveries, tricks to maintaining staying "on program" (in other words, watching your portion control, and avoiding foods that you know will definitely trigger overeating and are higher in calories), they talk about options to overcome "plateaus" in weight loss. And no, I am not a leader, I am just an old life time member (achieved my weight loss goal & maintained for six weeks) who has gone through a period of "backsliding" and will going back to the program I know works!

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10. Posted by A Yahoo! Health User on Tue, Sep 20, 2005, 11:37 am PDT

Oh Puhlease! Portioning is irrelevant when people don't burn off the calories they are consuming. The key to dieting succes is 2 steps" 1) Eat Healthy nad 2) move your BOD!

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11. Posted by A Yahoo! Health User on Tue, Sep 20, 2005, 12:41 pm PDT

I agree awasosqua, people keep trying to avoid the inevitable! They want to believe that diet is the only way to get to the proper healthy weight, when it's both diet and exercise together! I think what it boils down to is laziness. I believe smaller portions will help, but it's not the cure all. The way I lose weight when I want to is eating between 6 to 8 smaller meals per day, with fruits and vegetables, lean protein and complex carbs and I do at least 30 minutes of cardio, 5 days per week, and it works fine for me.

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12. Posted by A Yahoo! Health User on Tue, Sep 20, 2005, 12:42 pm PDT

Eat to live, don't live to eat!

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13. Posted by A Yahoo! Health User on Tue, Sep 20, 2005, 7:45 pm PDT

I've independantly developed my oen version of portion control - 64 pounds ago. I eat WHAT I want, but do so either less often or smaller amounts. I do count calories. Like any diet, I tend to get hungry a lot, but Diet 7-UP helps out toward alleviating hunger, like water. I've been at it almost 2 years now, and still slowly losing. At 5'5" I weigh now 172 pounds after starting at 237. ANY diet takes will-power I noticed. I prefer a somewhat low-carb eating pattern anyways, but avoid gorging except a once-in-2-weeks eating binge. Nobody's perfect! While a diet with more fruits and veggies is optimal nutrition-wise the diet you can stick with is the real-life optimum. Some people can't adjust to mostly fruits and veggies. After a while you get to know your body. Except for weekends (where I don't eat much anyways) I weigh myself at work on a freight scale, which I can temporarily calibrate to get accurate to a pound. One thing's for sure. It's possible to lose a lot of weight, but not easy! In all cases, to keep it off, you have to engineer a permanent diet regime you can stick with. THAT is the so-called "lifestyle change" that is used to Splenda-coat the permanent diet reality. I'm not going to mince, puree, Splenda-coat or otherwise hide the ugly fact. But there is a bright side. The "dieter's dilemma", that with your metabolism slowing, means that you won't get hot so easy. That is handy in overheated or under-A/C'd workplaces! (and other situations like it) Dieting permanently also means mitigating health problems, save money on food, use less A/C at home, get more agile, etc. So, it's a good tradeoff in my case. If you're losing a lot of weight, stick with it if you can. It's worth it!

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14. Posted by A Yahoo! Health User on Tue, Sep 20, 2005, 10:57 pm PDT

Losing weight is easy,you just have to have confidence that your losing.Once you hop on that scale and see that your actually losing,you'll want to lose more & more.Once you've lost,you have to stick to an eating plan,otherwise you'll just gain it all back.Remember fitness is a journey,not a destination.

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15. Posted by A Yahoo! Health User on Wed, Sep 21, 2005, 1:33 am PDT

Yeah,as what the saying goes, what you are is what you eat or put into your mouth! Certainly,trying to loose weight is one of the hardest thing to do, as in my case. Whatever diet plan you may want to adopt self descipline is pivotal to one's success. Basically, if you really want to loose weight, its quite simple really. Reduce that simple carbohydrate(white bread, white rice) intake and all sugary stuff including fizzy drinks etc. Increase your complex carbohydrate intake including fruits & vegetables and cereal, grains and legumes. Do not touch any of the nuts. The cardinal rule is avoid saturated or animal fats. Olive oil or flaxseed oil at minimumal amount is permissable. Even if you are a vegetarian but if your cooking uses a lot oil it does not help you to loose weight at all. Vegetarian still consume a lot of carbohydrates!. DO NOT EAT ANYTHING AFTER 7.00 PM that will the trick.

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