Solutions To Kick Those Bad Habits Part 2 - Cleaning Your Plate

Do you think about starting a low-carb or keto diet but you have some bad habits with your eating that you feel like you just can't kick? I shared part 1 with you the other day so today I wanted to continue with the series and share part 2.

To recap - these are some of the habits that many people might struggle with:

• Snacking throughout the day - but especially at night
• Eating too much and feeling like you need to "clean your plate"
• Craving sweets and having a hard time resisting desserts
• Not being able to give up a favorite - even if it's not healthy

Are you ready for some ideas on the next topic? Let's get to them! Today we're going to focus on cleaning your plate.

Cleaning your plate

One of the things we were probably all taught to do when we were growing up was to clean our plate at dinner time. Some might have even gotten in trouble if you didn't. While I don't like the idea of wasting food (especially meat because that's an animal that gave it's life to feed you and if it gets thrown in the trash how sad is that!), I also don't think we need to be stuffing our bellies just to make sure we don't leave a morsel of food behind.

There's a very simple solution to this one as well. Put much less on your plate than you think you'll need to eat. You can always get a little more if you feel like you need it. But many times when we start small with our meal, we find that we didn't need as much to feel full as we thought we did.

I can use my husband as a good example of this. Restaurants these days make portions sizes SO large that it's way too much food for one person to eat in one sitting. (Honestly this is part of the problem too - portion sizes in restaurants have gotten out of control!) We've done this for a long time but especially once we changed our eating style, we started sharing a meal a lot of the time when we go out to eat. Sometimes James will think it's not going to be enough food if we share and that he'll still be hungry. But we usually just order a meal to share and just tell ourselves if we're still hungry we'll order something else to go with it. We have never - not once - needed to order something else. We always end up fully satisfied and full with the one meal that we ordered.

So all of that to say - just keep your portions small and reasonable so that you aren't as likely to eat too much and feel full and miserable after one meal. You'll also notice that you don't need as much when you're making the proper choices and eating more fats and protein and way less carbs. ;)