Category Archives: Portion Size

Shh…The Ultimate Secret to Weight Loss

Nicki Hicks

Nicki Hicks

Guiding Stars Contributor

Nicki is a fitness and nutrition enthusiast with a passion for all things healthy and organic. A web marketing specialist and search geek at flyte new media by day, Nicki works to increase her clients' search engine visibility. By night, you might find Nicki coaching, practicing yoga, or pretending to be an artist. Nicki regularly contributes to the Guiding Stars blog.

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Contrary to popular belief, diet supplements, the latest diet fad, and even exercise can't help you lose as much weight as this secret. And I'm going to let you in on it....are you ready?

It's portion control.

If you can control the size of your food and meal portions, you're well on your way to looking great - and [bonus] feeling better.

It's easy to over indulge, especially with those foods that may not be the healthiest for us. But don't worry. You don't have to give up your chocolate or lose the carbs.

Here are some tips that will help get your portions down to size [pardon the pun]... Read more »

Shh…The Ultimate Secret to Weight Loss

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Jaica Kinsman

Jaica Kinsman

Web Community Specialist, Guiding Stars Licensing Company

Jaica is responsible for Internet marketing, community engagement and whatever else is cool and happening on the Interwebs. She designed the website and serves as editor for the Guiding Stars Blog. Jaica is also one of the founders of Social Media FTW.

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Children who build their plates this way will become healthy eaters for life. Make it fun, and remember, by following this model, you’re guaranteed stars on half of your child’s plate... Read more »

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Overwhelming your kid with too much food?

Erin Dow

Erin Dow

Guiding Stars Expert Chef

Guiding Stars Expert Chef Erin Dow balances three food worlds. As a mother of three young children, she’s fighting the battle every parent faces: how to keep her kids interested in the foods that keep them healthy. As the chef and owner of her catering company Eatswell Farm, she utilizes original recipes and techniques--focused on enhancing the enjoyment of locally-sourced ingredients--to best interpret the client’s vision. And as Consulting Executive Chef for Falmouth-based Professional Catering Services, a business specializing in production and backstage catering for concerts, she develops and executes menus that accommodate the strict nutritional requirements of the music industry elite. Erin and her family raise their own chicken for meat and eggs, have dabbled in pastured Narragansett turkeys, and have a very weedy but very large and productive garden.

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My kid wasn’t going to sit and slip peas from their skins in defiance like I did. I thought long and hard about what it was that perpetuated this problem and the answer came surprisingly easy: move less, eat less. Smaller person=smaller portion. This seems easy enough to comprehend, but it seems most challenging with our first child because, in my opinion, we’re most used to what we’re used to: serving ourselves... Read more »