Plate helps Diabetes weight loss

[SueM]

BBC NEWS | Health | Plate aids diabetes weight loss (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/6238740.stm)
I found this quite interesting.
I don't know about everyone else but I weigh my portion sizes every so often to see how much they had increased with just estimating. It's quite an eye opener.

[Mich]

I'd need to use doll plates. M :)

[princesslinda]

Unless the plate could give a mild electric shock if overfilled, it probably wouldn't work for me. ;)

Hubby and I eat our regular meals from a salad plate...looks like you have more food than you actually have. I read this in a diet book years ago and we've done it for a long time. When I'm out and have to use a real plate, it's amazing how much more you pile on.

[kgm0612]

I read this on the web earlier today. Many people I know that diet, use a smaller plate because it holds less food and they're apt not to overeat.

Karen

[REDLAN]

nice idea - helps with portion control...

however diet study caveat...

...and this is a big one. For a diet study to be truly convincing it needs to run for at least 2 years. The reason?

Long term diet studies show weight loss in the first year, followed by weight regain in the second. To my knowledge there hasn't been a diet study that hasn't shown this pattern.

seriously if anyone can find a long term diet study that shows consistent weight loss, I'd be really interested to see it, because I haven't seen one.

and this study ran for....

6 months.

(this may be me being cynical, but next time you hear about a diet study, check out the duration of the study, I'd put money on it being less than 1 year)

[toyota1964]

It costs $29.95 plus shipping for this one plate! Another $25.50 if you also want a bowl!!!

[SueM]

It costs $29.95 plus shipping for this one plate! Another $25.50 if you also want a bowl!!!

Ah well you now know the secret of the weight loss, pay for the plate and bowl then you can not aford to put food on your plate :)

[HelenM]

Interesting.
I followed a link from the diabulimics article the other day to French lessons: Eat petite, be petite - Nutrition Notes - MSNBC.com (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19055377/) which suggested that the French were generally slimmer because accepted portion size was about 25% smaller than in the US and they also took longer to eat it. (veg, salad as separate course) I've noticed the normal plate size in everyday restaurants is much smaller than my British (9 1/2 inch) dinner plate.

[ant hill]

Aah Memories, The days of animal insulin and the restrictive diet. Ok just think of a pig and you get a look at what it eats and then you would have to get that similar diet. So to have honey is off limits and the like.

Now we have some freedom on what we can eat but the rules of getting the weight off still applies. So this practice of eating in small amounts rears it's ugly head. :( :confused: Let's say that we live inactive lives and so we should eat less. would you agree?? :questionm