Healthy Meals Should Have Bigger Portions, Not Smaller Ones

Portion control is over-hyped.

If youre trying to eat healthy, small portions are probably hurting more than helping you.

Does that sound backwards?

Its not hard to find lists of500,400, even300-calorie healthy dinners.

But when you have one of these, what youre eating isnt a meal.

Later, you will still be hungry, and you will run to the vending machine in desperation.

(They may even charge more becauseyou think youre eating healthy.)

(There may even be posters on the wall about how healthy frozen yogurt is.)

But its ice cream covered in candy.

And you know whats a really good trick to reduce the number of calories you eat at dessert?

Eat a large, filling, healthy dinner.

Surveys show that plenty of normal-weight peoplerestrict what they eatandbelieve they are overweightwhen they are not.

Maybe shell ditch the rice and add guacamole.

Stay with me here: thats a thousand-plus calories of beans, veggies, meat, and avocado.

If your meal is made of healthy food, take advantage and eat plenty.

Photos byJD HancockandEd Schipul.