Buffets are so convenient and gives you the opportunity to enjoy several different dishes in a meal. As always, the issue is watching portions, counting calories and fat content.
There are a few other things, that once you are aware, you can monitor your own actions and avoid overeating.
- Use the salad plate and don’t fill it to the point it is mounded and overflowing. Put only a few items on the plate at a time and only put the single serving size.
- Eat slowly. At a Chinese buffet, eat with chopsticks.
- Face away from the food, seeing the food makes a person more tempted to refill their plate.
- One habit of a thinnest people is that they walk around the buffet to see what all the dishes are before severing themselves.
- Be very careful about the amount of soda and sweet tea that you consume at a buffet meal. Yes, it is included but remember that each glass of soda adds about 120 calories to the meal. Drink water and food will be digested easier.
- Stop eating long enough to have some conversation. Actually, set your fork down and visit. It takes the stomach about 20 minutes to know it is full so eating slowly and prolonging the meal helps to keep you from overeating.
The number one way to not overeat at a buffet is to order off a menu, it is just too tempting to eat too much of everything. However, if you are going to partake of a buffet, keep some of these points in mind and do your best to eat less.
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I am by no means trying to avoid the buffet tables this holiday season. I am ready to beat any buffet and enjoy. I want to eat steak, a ham and chicken gizzard stew. In fact, it is the sodas that make many people ingest too many calories. It is not the whole meats and breads and pasts. It is the sugar rich things that make you blow up in size.