Keep your serving sizes down to the handfuls. If you can keep your snacks in a one hand sized portion and your meals in a two hand filled portion, you are sure to find it easier to serve yourself healthy portions of food. You will lose weight more naturally and still get the nutrition out of the small servings throughout the day.

When eating foods try to avoid those that contain artificial sweeteners. Artificial sweeteners such as sucralose and aspartame sweeten food, but are likely to cause more fat gain due to a lack of insulin response. Artificial sweeteners have also been linked to causing heart problems among those to eat them.