After Diet: The Essential Method of Food Portions

Although it is true that to lose weight you must reduce your daily calorie intake, but it is not necessarily to give up delicious food. To maintain the results accomplished after a diet period, is necessary to consider a control on size and number of food portions.
The Essential Method of Food Portions applies to any food style and allows you to continue losing weight without going on constantly on a specific diet. Although, is necessary always to check that the daily diet meets the universal-basic nutritional requirements; a small readjustment on portions size can produce surprising results to maintain a slim body.
Before anything else, is necessary to remember that a healthy and balanced diet should contain all the essential nutrients for our body; carbohydrates (cereals, fruits and vegetables), protein (meat, eggs, milk, lentils, beans, dried fruit and soy grains), fats (meat , milk and eggs), vitamins and minerals (fruits, vegetables, cereals), fiber (cereals, fruits, green vegetables) , and water. Only then, the body receives all the ingredients that allow you to preserve an optimal health condition.

To know the recommendable daily intake percentages of the different foods, you must consider the following table:
Whole-grain cereals, bread and pasta: 35% of the daily diet.
Fruits and vegetables: 35% of the daily diet.
Meat, lentils, beans, whole- grains and nuts: 12% of the daily diet.
Dairy products and eggs: 12% of the daily diet.
Fat and sugar: 6% of the daily diet.
Water: at least 2 liters per day.

How to apply the Essential Method of Food Portions?

In general, if you are overweight you should simply reduce the amount and portion sizes intake regularly. For example, if you eat three slices of pizza, cut them down at two. Two portions of ice cream reduce it at one. A glass of beer reduces it at half a glass. A big portion of cake, reduce it to a smaller portion. A hamburger with fries and soda, eliminate fries and soda. Two portions of pasta with sauce and cheese, reduce consume at just one portion with less sauce.

The portions reduction process should be gradual to avoid hunger pangs.  For that reason, the ideal would be to increase the number of meals per day, in the form of mini-meals or snacks, in that way, the binge eating can be controlled, and the consume of fewer portions can be sustained over time. Eat fewer amounts of food helps to reduce calories and consequently lose pounds. The limit is always to be satisfied.

Eliminating your extra pounds will make you feel lighter; in addition, the body will require less energy (calories) to keep fit. Have an impact in the overweight vicious circle does not happen overnight, that is why refrain from tasty food  generate anxiety and lack of willpower. The Essential Method of Food Portions is not suggesting that you must eliminate foods from your daily diet; it just proposes a gradual reduction of intake food to accomplish a healthy balance. If you combine this Method with the learned concept after following the Initiation Diet, you never will need again to worry about having a healthy slim body.