7 secrets of highly obese people

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Interesting about the plate size for supper or in lieu, using bowls instead.

Just realized as a child and teenager, I grew up in a home where our staple..rice was either served to each of us, in a bowl or on a dinner plate, depending on the entrees served.

When rice was served in bowls, of course, our entree(s) was served traditional Asian style, where you use chopsticks to pick food from the serving platter from the imaginary triangle area of that common entree dish in front of each person. That is etiquette and we were taught to observe this (most of the time ) at home. It is bad manners to reach over and pick up food from someone else's "pie" area.....still is bad manners.

Hence, now I realize, it might have actually "controlled" our portions of meat, veggies instead of handing around platters of food around the table and using a big spoon to scoop out a portion of meat, veggies for oneself. We never did that at home while growing up. It's a more Western serving style at the dinner table. Besides seating 8 people with all the dishes on table was really tight, it would have been totally impractical to pass around central common dishes of entrees & veggies.

If our rice was served on a dinner plate, each child and adult still picked up their portion of the food from common entree central serving dish (with their chopsticks) and placed it on dinner plate OR I remember as older sibling, I would help my mother allocate each person's portion of meat, veggies, etc. I learned ie. what amount to serve much younger siblings. Then everyone else would be allowed to come to table to eat.

So maybe this helped...the portion control issue in our family for quite a long time.

This technique also gives me a benchmark that I know for certain how much I've cut back on white rice consumption now compared to when I was a teenager. I used to eat 2 full bowls of white rice per dinner. Occasionally 3 bowls for entree was particularily yummy with a sauce. In my teens, I weighed in early 90's lbs., I was abit slim even abit underweight during some years.

Now it is 1 heaping bowl equivalent of white rice, perhaps once a week.