Use a small dish or a plate for your meals

There is no need to harbour a false notion that you can eat only boiled items during dieting. Tastefulness is the essence of meals. If the food is tasteless you are bound to develop an aversion for it in a few days. SO do maintain a variety in your food items. Add spices to them on a moderate scale. But restrict the use of salt.

Stop using a big plate, use a small dish or a plate for your meals.

Cut the raw vegetables and ingredients of salad yourself while you have your meals. Make sure you take small pieces of chapati or roti.

Take small morsels, chew the food properly and chew every morsel at least 15 times so that food is turned into liquid form. Remember the adage - do not eat your food, drink it.

EATING OUT AT SINGAPORE

Food is a national obsession in Singapore - every time everywhere you go, whatever the time of day, you will find the locals eating. The choice of restaurants, food courts and roadside stalls is overwhelming and the temptation to try every one of them enormous. food courts are large areas, often car parks, transformed into a mass of tiny, steamy stalls. You can wander around ordering dishes from each, then sit and feast while you watch all the cook busily at work.

Three great cultures and their foods - Malay, Chinese and Indian - come together here about 150 years ago and have created, in Singapore, a culinary crossroads a food lovers' paradise. But if you peeped int the kitchen of a Singapore home, you'd recognize most of the ingredients - oyster sauce, fresh root ginger, lemon grass, chilies, coconut, egg noodles, and spices - as they are now available in Britain.

EATING OUT AT SINGAPORE II

We have adapted a variety of time consuming Singaporean recipes to make preparation and cooking short and simple. The roast chicken In coconut sauce needs slightly longer to cook but very little work. It proved to be one of our favourites- hot or cold.

Remember that a meal should contain contrasting elements. Serve dish with plenty of sauce alongside dry one and balance spicy dishes with mild ones, suing coconut milk or noodles. Yo won't find many desserts in Singapore, but after a filling dinner of rice with several other delicious dishes, you will probably find that you have just no room?

My Suggestion

Despite eating above mentioned items, if hunger keeps on bothering you go for a walk in the fresh air of do some light exercise followed by a hot water bath.

It is desirable to take your dinner as early as possible that you have an hour to spare and then go for walk covering a distance of about one km. Those who do not do any exercise should go for a similar walk in the early morning also.

Take care of the psychological factors at work during the dieting. human mind is both strange and fickle. It always craves for that which is not available. In the initial stages of dieting, first one or two weeks pose a challenge to the obese person. Temptation to eat tasty food becomes very strong. at this juncture great amount of patience and firmness are requires. Sometimes, symptoms like weakness, headaches, insomnia and acidity also develop. But do not lose heart, meet the challenge bravely. Once you cross this critical stage things will be easy for you.

Some Advice on Taking Food

Keep an interval of about 15 seconds between morsels of food while you are taking your meals.

Fix a particular place for eating meals (for example the kitchen) and stick to it.

It is experts opinion that fat persons should not eat more than thrice a day. Sp plan your food intake in such a way that your total food intake is equally distributed in three sessions. It is not desirable to make one of the meals heavier and the other a lighter one. It has been proved through experiments that the chances of reduction to weight decrease if a person eats a big meal in a single session. You should not eat anything between your meals.

If unbearable hunger develops between two meals it can be satisfied by taking low calorie food items. Keep items like carrots and cucumber always at hand. Such items do not contain high calorie value. To satisfy hunger one can also take a glass of water with a few drops of lemon added to it.