It’s a very good idea to use a small utensil to eat your meals from each time. Here are seven weight loss tips that you can use to create a weight loss plate for all your meals.

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1. Eat breakfast from Scotch Whiskey glass instead of a cereal bowl.

2. Have your soup from an ice cream bowl instead of a regular soup bowl.

3. Place dinner on a salad plate instead of a dinner plate.

4. Use an ice cream scoop to serve your mash potatoes and have only one scoop, same thing goes for rice, pasta or squash.

5. Have a small chicken breast, 1-piece of fish or 3-slices of meat or turkey breast.

6. If you have a sweet tooth, eat a small peach, plum, pear, mango or sweet fruit – sliced into small pieces and eat it slowly.

7. Eat all acid-forming foods by 4:00 p.m. daily and eat only alkaline foods after 4:00 p.m.

You’ll be amazed at how fast you’ll get used to these portion sizes and will feel very satisfied. You will also soon adjust to the new eating time, feel more energized and will sleep better.

Have a tumbler glass of lemonade to complete dinner or water and lemon juice. Sip the lemonade through a straw slowly savoring the taste until it’s finished.