- Use cookbooks with reduced-calorie recipes or adapt the recipes to your nutrition plan.
- Use single-serving foods, like chicken breasts.
- Prepare a specific amount per person.
- Keep appetizers more than an arm’s length away.
- Take a serving of only one or two items at a time.
- Immediately place all mixing bowls and utensils in soapy water, before you can lick them clean.
- Ask someone else to put food items away while you clean up another room.
DINNER PARTIES AT OTHER PEOPLE’S HOMES
- Use techniques listed earlier in the Social Eating section.
- When coaxed to have more food, say you’ll have more later or ask to take it home with you. Discard the leftovers in your own disposal.
VACATIONS AND HOLIDAYS
VACATIONS
- Set time aside to plan your vacation strategies, considering:
– where you are going; where and with whom you will stay;
– how long and by what means you will travel;
– what activities you may be doing;
– the patterns of the people you’ll be travelling or staying with;
– your anticipated needs; problems you think you may have in controlling your food intake. - Review all of the sections in the Outline for more ideas.
- Write out the strategies in detail.
- Purchase and pack any items necessary to your control plans.
- Record your food intake daily.
- Include physical exercise to compensate for higher calorie intake
HOLIDAYS
- Follow the procedure for vacations.
- When planning, also consider:
– the customary way the holiday is celebrated;
– your old eating patterns;
– your specific eating goals for the holiday. - Record your food intake daily.