that cnn special referred a lot to Brian Wansink's book, Mindless Eating, Why we eat more than we think... and a lot of what is in the book is true...
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Costco and large size store like that aren't helping either!
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that's one of the points the writer makes in the book, that we think we're saving money by buying the jumbo economy sizes of things, but the reality is, unless you portion stuff out ahead of time, we're eating more... there were a bunch of other studies int he book as well...
Since may of 2006, til now, I've lost over 180lbs with about 40-50 to go... Pre may of 2006, I never ate fast food, never ate fried foods, ate fairly healthily but just never took the time to measure out portions - plus 15 years of being ont he road living in restaurants didn't help much - even healthy looking foods in restaurant menus pack in the calories...
One of the big things I've done is changed plate sizes -and it's made a big difference... a portion of something looks a lot bigger on a small plate than it does on a big plate... and your mind says -oooh i'm satisfied rather than -- ooh that portion looks really tiny i must still be hungry.