Everyday Systems: nosdiet: message 894 of 3212

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One thing I've noticed as a frequent restaurant goer
is that many women are more obese than the men they
accompany. Perhaps one of the reasons for this is that
the plates that are served to men and women are the
same size. 

If you have a 200 lb man and a 140 lb woman who both
order the same dish, and they both eat everything on
the plate, the woman will be more likely to gain
weight,period. 

Here in Tex-Mex country, some of the restaurants have
devised a solution to this problem: the "senorita
plate." This is a smaller-portioned dish of any of the
regular items on the menu. For many women and
smaller-framed men, the "s" of the senorita plate
might aid you in your weight loss efforts, if you have
been sticking to the NOS diet without seeing any
weight loss. 

If your restaurant doesn't have a senorita plate,
choose the "small," as I've seen advocated here
already. For example, I like to eat at Quizno's. I'm
5'10", 202, and I order a small sandwich with plain
baked chips and a tea. I can't count the number of
times I've seen short, smaller framed men and women,
usually overweight, ordering a regular or even a LARGE
sandwich, with Doritos and then hit the soda machine
(two or three times for refills - no seconds!)

Then we all wonder why we got overweight in the first
place (I speak from experience, <wink>) 

I love the points I've seen in this group already, on
the site and in the archives - don't "supersize,
subsize!" 

Or choose the "senorita plate!" 

Later.




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"Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look;
He thinks too much: such men are dangerous."
-- William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar, Act I, Scene 2




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