Portion control is all about taking in the quantity of food your body needs at a time. You could call it quantity control.

In as much as you need exercise to keep fit. Balancing up what you eat helps you further lose weight. Portion control is another way of eating well and moving more to lose weight without starving.

It depends on your activity level, body size, genetics and so on which vary from person to person. An average woman requires 1500 calories per day to lose a pound of weight per week.

These methods will help you portion your meals:

1. Generally, dishing your food on a big plate tends to make you take more food than you need. You automatically want to finish up the meal to prevent waste. Dish your food on smaller plates

2. Your meal should contain the big 4 to give you a balanced diet. Your carbohydrate, fat, vegetable, and protein.

These are required in different proportions and should be commensurate to your size. As such, research has proofed that your hands are a good measuring tool.

Your portion of vegetables should tally with the size of your fist. Healthy fat, the length of your thumb, for protein, your palm size, one cupped handful of carbohydrates.

3. For the food lovers, by now you know that food draws you to it, we advise that you do not leave food around you. You can easily get another serving of food if it is left in sight.

4. When eating from a pack, be it biscuits, a drink, or any kind of snack, portion them out into a plate or cup. Eating or drinking directly from a pack robs you of determining how much you are really consuming.

5. Startup all meals with a glass of water. Taking water helps you tell the difference between hunger and taste. You get full Faster as well.

6. Read all nutrition labels on what you consume, you will understand what to cut down on a daily.

To lose weight, burning more calories than you take is key. Take more calories than your body needs and it stores the rest as fat.

You can eat healthily and still not lose weight if you are consuming way more than you burn. You see, losing weight is not just all exercise and you continue old habits.

It entails a lot of factors that you should note down and follow. Start today.