Take your whole meals and dividing them up into healthy portions that you can eat so it easily fits into your meal or diet plan. Portioning is an important, some might even say the core part of any weight loss or diet plan because measuring your food intake and balancing that with exercise are the basics of dieting.

The easiest way to deal with portioning is to simply look at serving sizes for what you’re eating. Anything that comes out of a box or package already comes labelled with its own facts for each serving size portion you consume. Depending on your daily requirements, it can be a simple task of just adding up everything you eat or are planning to eat ahead of time and making sure that all of your numbers line up properly.

When cooking from scratch it may be helpful to use a food scale so you can accurately track what you’re putting into the meal.

On the plus side, however, once you have a good idea (and you can make it even easier by keeping a list or cheat sheet of common food facts in your kitchen!) of your portions and nutritional facts for the things you cook often then portioning becomes a snap! You can cook up a whole pot of soup and put it into portioned freezer containers to eat later for meals. The same goes for whole meals, just break them up into their individual portions during or after they’re cooked and freeze or refrigerate them until you’re ready to eat! Not only is this a great, healthy way to have your meals ready but it can save you a ton of cooking time, too!

I also like to use tools use such as:

Calorieking

My Fitness Pal 

Do you have others that you like to use’ How do you make sure you keep your positions under control.  Want to learn other tools to help you beat the diet monster’ Join my webinar tonight!

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Blum is a RD and a holistic nutritionist which I love, she looks at both how to solve the problems of weight loss both clinically and holistically. Cave Women Don’t Get Fat focuses on the needs of women and works to help them learn how to burn more fat and reduce their cravings while healing their bodies.

Most people who consider going on a Paleo diet are like I can have as much bacon as I ant, but she advises to still keep it lean and be selective about your fats.  Blum also talks about women and our hormones and gives guidance about how to keep them in balance or re-balance them.

I’m a big believer in sleep and minimizing stress and she talks a ton about what stress and lack of sleep do to your hormonal system causes us ladies to keep on the weight. I’ve also been doing a lot of research on toxins in your environment, Blum spends an entire chapter talking about them and how to minimize them in our food.

Got a sugar craving’ According to the USDA Americans consume more than 47 pounds of sugar. Blum suggests replacing sugar with proteins and good fat. Here’s a sugar buster she recommends

Sugar buster cocoa — 1 Tablespoon cocoa powder (the stuff you bake with, not the one with the Swiss Miss on the front) 8oz water, dash of cinnamon or nutmeg.

Give it a try and let me know how you make out. One of my favorite ways to bust my sugar cravings are Isadelights. I’m a fan of the milk.

In the back of the book she gives a ton of recipes  and makes recommendations for supplements. She feels the same way that I do, yes, you can get a ton from food, but you will need supplementation because our food supply has lost their nutrients.

Give it a listen. Once you are done, I’d love to hear your feedback, please leave in the comments below.

Next Month book is Hungry for Change (Enhanced Edition): Ditch the Diets, Conquer the Cravings, and Eat Your Way to Lifelong Health

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