Find what prompts you to eat then learn to break the link with food. It may be a feeling. The ones to track down are those that turn you to food – anxiety, hurt, depression, anger, boredom or excitement. Ban eating for at least an hour after the next bout of anxiety, hurt or whatever. Fight boredom with activity. Reading or television helps in this matter. Relieve stress and anxiety with exercise or relaxation if you are anxious, find out why you feel so.

In restaurants learn to order salad dishes and skip courses, though if you do succumb to the chocolate mousse don’t give up altogether. At parties fend off friends who press rich foods and second helpings. Organize a wholesome snack for teatime. Allow yourself treats and try not to distinguish between ‘dieting me’ and ‘non-dieting me’. Unless you know which foods are fat-packed or over-sugared and high in calories, you may choose the wrong ones. Many people think cheese and sausages are protein and therefore ‘good’, without realizing that the protein comes with a great deal of fat. Aim to improve your knowledge of food values.

The overweight often bypass breakfast, leave out lunch or eat lightly at midday and concentrate their eating on the evening meal. The drawbacks to this are both physiological and psychological. It is bad for their heart, their willpower and their weight. Far better to follow the old adage: ‘breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince and dinner like a pauper’.

If less than three meals a day are eaten, cholesterol levels in the blood show a tendency to rise. Research has shown that the person who eats three meals a day is less likely to put on fat than the person who eats the same number of calories at a single sitting, especially in the evening. By missing breakfast, you are avoiding food at a time when self-control is high (in the morning and early afternoon) and eating more when resistance is lowest (in the evening). When the time for dinner comes, the body is famished and control goes by the board. And overweight people rarely stop at dinner. The leisure activities are also likely to culminate in eating, and this regular refueling may continue unabated until bed time.

Let the viands if hot ones be served really hot and with really hot plates, and let there be as little delay as possible between the courses.

Where it is not possible to serve as well as cook an elaborate meal, with their accompanying vegetables or sauces. Make whatever meal is served for the family or guests, however simple, as perfect as can be of its kind and as we have before said, let it look as attractive as possible. A well laid table is one of the refining influences that home should bring to bear upon the young mind. LAYING THE CLOTH. There is more art than people imagine in laying a cloth properly. Anyone can put a tablecloth over a table and add the necessary forks, knives, spoons etc, but everyone cannot place these things neatly and accurately, cannot think of everything that will be required, nor dispose either silver, dishes or other adjuncts to look pretty and tasteful. Always have your table properly laid, and if be done so everyday, how much less the anxiety when guests are bidden to any meal.

It is possible in many households where the service is not quite in proportion to the demand that for instance in a house where only one general servant can be kept that she has not always time to lay the cloth. Rather than let this be done in a slovenly hasty way, it is better to do it oneself. There is nothing hard nor derogatory in this task, here we need only generalize but we must not forget a word, or rather a place for the table cloth. Let it be laid evenly with the same quantity falling at the two ends and at the two sides, let it be refolded always in the same creases, and let it go in a press if possible. If there is no necessity for economy in laundry work, and a fresh tablecloth can be used for every meal, then and only then is it excusable to wisp it up when taking it off the table instead of folding it neatly. Even though both meals be served on the same table, it is best to have two tablecloths going for breakfast and dinner, and the one not in use in the press.

THE SIDEBOARD

The sideboard for dinner and for breakfast in large families requires laying as well as the cloth; and it should have its fancy cloth with fringed edges or its plain white one for the purpose. On it should be laid at breakfast the spare plates, knives and forks the loaf and platter, and the large cold dishes, if any be served, such as a ham, pie or cold joint. At dinner it is usually the receptacle of the dessert plates, knives and forks, the spare bread and roll, besides holding extra supplies of knives and forks, spoons and glasses. In ordinary families dinners where dessert is not served, only cold sweets and their accompanying plates, as well as the materials for the cheese course, could be placed upon the sideboard, but this in case of, strongly- scented fruit such as a pine or melon, is as great a mistake as putting it upon the table; such fruits, too, as strawberries and other delicate kinds are not improved by being kept in the room during the time of serving a hot dinner.

In winter such things as nuts or oranges cannot deteriorate by being kept in the dining room, but the summer fruits almost invariably do. Everything that will be required in laying a cloth should first be brought into the room, then the table cloth spread and the serviettes  , neatly folded placed equidistant so that every person shall have equal space. Lay the knives and forks the width of dinner plate apart and do not forget to put bread to each person, also see that the salt cellars, nicely filled with dry salt and with clean spoons, are sufficient for the requirements of the party; and that there are condiments, such as sauce, pepper, cayenne and mustard at hand according to what is to be served. Sideboard is use full to save time and labour as much as possible and to avoid any waits during the meal, than which nothing can be more annoying.

It is known that a certain time should elapse, sufficient for digestive purposes, between our meals; but when that time has passed, and in waiting for a meal we lose the appetite for it we should have served it in time, so much good food is wasted, and a certain amount of harm done to our system.

It may take some time and trouble to so far plan out the time for meals so that, as far as possible, they are convenient and suitable for all; but when once this is done punctuality in serving them should be insisted upon, with a corresponding insistence on the punctuality of those for whom they are served.

According to the occupations and ages of those for whom meals are prepared so must the hours for them be arranged; but there are two golden rules concerning them: namely, that there should be sufficient time allowed for them to be partaken of without hurry, and that they should be punctually served.

Of little use is it having a dainty breakfast ready for the master of the house ten minutes before he has to start for business, or a well cooked good dinner for the members of family return home in evening after a long busy day. Better is it to allow a little extra time than to run the risk of people having to bolt their food or go without it.

There  should always be a clear half- hour allowed for breakfast, and this should not be a meal that, as in many houses, runs on from eight to ten o` clock.

This is fatal to the regular house hold routine; nor can breakfast be served comfortably and properly for different members keeping different times, unless it be in large households where there are many hands for the morning.

Children should also have an early breakfast, or there will be too long an interval between that and their tea of the day before. Where there are little one` s and, wives and several servants a lunch must be served in the middle of the day; but it is generally necessary to have some cooking done later when the master of the house returns.

Most men who value their health prefer to have only a light luncheon during working hours and return to dinner late, and this is certainly more economical than dinning away from home.

We would advise young housekeepers not to make a trouble of this meal and to be ready to partake of it with their husbands. Many think it impossible without one or two servants to have a late dinner or what now often takes it place, a high tea; but in reality there is no work attached to it` s preparation than that of an ordinary tea and it` s following supper, and the late dinner is served and cleared away long before a supper could be.

If the latter meal be taken, it should be moderately early, and then we cannot see that it is more injurious than a very late dinn.

There are three main reasons of weight losing i.e. to get fit, to avoid health problem and to get self confidence. The secret of losing weight and get it off is that you must control your diet and the amount of calories that you use.

You need to use less calories dense food. Sometimes diet can cause shortages of important nutrients so taking the good quality supplements helps in maintaining the energy and health level.

Low cholesterol diet and regular exercise is the surest way to get rid of the heart problems. Hunger makes you think more about food so fill yourself with carbohydrates and fiber enriched food like dry cereals, snacks and pop corns between your meals. To stay healthy Following are the best food and diet tips.

Useful Diet & Food Tips

Eat to live and don’t live to eat.

Exercise is best remedy for reducing the hunger and stress. Pick an exercise plan and do it on the regular basis.

Eat fruit and drink water excessively at least 8-10 glasses of water per day. Both are helpful in reducing the appetite.

Eat regular meals because skipping meal can lead to out of control hunger, which can result in over eating.

Snacking between meals is helpful to curb hunger but don’t use much snaking so that it should not become the meal itself.

You need forty different nutrients to maintain your health so eat variety of food because not single food can supply all the required nutrients.

Keep away from the processed food and artificial sugar made food.

Use fresh vegetables, whole grain and fruit.

Take a note that how you feel after getting different kinds of food i.e. do you feel energetic, sleepy, constipated, and full or require more food.

Only use skimmed milk for coffee or tea.

Divide your daily calories requirements into the smaller meals or snacks.

Protein is more satisfying nutrient than the carbohydrates or fats. Enough protein helps in preserving muscle mass and encourages the body to burn the fat so add health protein sources in your food like beans, nuts, cheese and white meat.

Don’t excessively use butter, sour cream and other fatty food.