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If your like me you need some type of motivation to get the body moving when the holidays are here. I’m either Christmas shopping (or like today I’ll be out most of the day taking advantage of after Christmas sales), cooking or getting ready for New Years & my New Years resolutions.

Below are 20 excellent motivators, that will get you in the mood to start moving and getting back to physical exercise.
I hope that you enjoy them as much as I do.

20 Get Moving Motivators
By Garrett J. Braunreiter, CSCS, The Energy Coach

Studies have shown that carrying groceries, doing yardwork, and cleaning your house counts as physical activity. So, while you’re not exercising per se, you’re at least giving your body some physical benefits.

But still you know that this kind of activity isn’t going to guarantee a flatter stomach, greater strength, and a longevity boost. So how do find time and energy reach your fitness goals? Here are every-day tips for your exercise inspiration….

1. Take a picture of yourself and have it “morphed” at a photo shop. Wanna see how you look 10, 20, 30 pounds lighter? Have the picture people edit the picture in the image you like, then take home copies of it and hang them everywhere you can see it. Harness the power of visualization.

2. Keep a stack of your favorite magazines that you promise yourself you can read only at the gym. If the issues start piling up, you know it’s time to schedule a workout.

3. Did you know that NOT exercising AT ALL is equivalent to smoking a pack of cigarettes A DAY? (Fear is a good motivator for some.)

4. Your dog. If you want your pooch to enjoy a longer, healthier life, s/he needs to get moving, too. You’ll find as both of you get fit, s/he is more enthusiastic, and will give you a challenging workout. If not, YOU give him/her a challenging workout.

5. Work out with your spouse/life partner. Not only does it get both of you healthy and strong, but can also spice up your romantic life.

6. Erase YEARS off your body. Chronologically you may be 40, but with regular, vigorous exercise and healthy nutrition, people are going to do a double-take and think you’re in your mid-30’s. Imagine how awesome you’ll feel, when you not only feel younger, but to OTHER people you look younger. Act younger, too.

7. Begin an accomplishments journal. At the end of each day, write down what you’ve accomplished that day to move you closer toward your fitness and/or life goals. DO NOT WRITE DOWN WHAT YOU HAVEN’T ACCOMPLISHED. That doesn’t matter. What matters is what you ARE doing; we all need a long-overdue, well-deserved pat on the back on a regular basis.

8. Use the TV. Here’s the catch: work out only when your favorite show is on. Or, record your favorite show and work out during that (but don’t fast forward through commercials - unless you have consecutive episodes taped). Can help time to fly by faster.

9. Hire a personal trainer or coach. If you’re having extreme difficulty with motivation, hire a professional to get you to reorganize your life to make taking care of yourself a top priority (which it should be). A good coach or trainer will teach you how to help YOURSELF, without you having to hold someone else’s hand, and help you realize that YOU have the power and ability to do this on your own.

10. Split your workouts. Some recent studies are showing that a split workout can burn more calories than one full workout. So if time’s an issue (gee, there’s a thought) try getting up 30 minutes earlier in the morning for a short-burst 15 minute workout, then steal another 15-20 minutes at lunch or in the evening.

11. Use your daily planner. You have important commitments scheduled into your planner, right? Volunteer work, doctor appointments, children’s activities, etc. Where’s EXERCISE??? It’s as important a commitment (if not more) than your other activities. Quick tip: mark “EXERCISE” in your planner with a bright colored marker, so it stands out as a reminder to get your butt in gear.

12. Listen to audio books while you exercise. Self-improvement and motivation books are GREAT here. You’ll feel twice as productive, and highly energized, and the time will fly.

13. Reward yourself. It never ceases to amaze me how hard we are on ourselves when we don’t accomplish, and how hard we are on ourselves when we DO accomplish. Whenever you reach a milestone, have something in mind, like a trip to the day spa, new shoes or clothes (as long as it’s NON-EDIBLE).

14. Have kids? Look at their pictures to remind you that you want to be around to share life with them, with plenty of energy. You don’t want your 10-year old to be throwing you around the house, do you?

15. Want to keep fitting into your favorite jeans? You know, the ones that fit you nicely several years ago? Keep them. Keep trying them on to keep yourself in check to keep eating right and exercising.

16. Keep a journal of how you feel after exercise. Especially the great workouts. On the days you just don’t feel like exercising, look back on the good workout days for some inspiration.

17. See exercise as a stress-releaser. A simple shift in attitude can do wonders for your stress levels. If you’ve had a long, hard day at work, exercise is something to LOOK FORWARD TO to relieve your stress and revive yourself.

18. Check out the e-mail, chat, or discussion groups on the Internet that deal with fitness, weight loss, diet, exercise, etc.

19. Have young kids? Use the day care at the gym - so there’s no excuse about who’s going to watch the kids. Or, have a family member(s) or a friend watch them. So there REALLY is no excuse for not working out.

20. Look in the mirror. Sometimes that is all you need to trigger you into the lean, fit, and energized mode.

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We all have food cravings and they aren’t all in your mind.

You crave foods because your body “remembers” the physiological effect the food had when you consumed it in the past. In fact, research has shown that the foods we perceive as enjoyable or rewarding actually activate the same “reward pathways” in the brain that are triggered by certain drugs of abuse, like cocaine. When you experience a “food flash,” you are really experiencing a milder form of the drug cravings that afflict recovering addicts.

That’s why the smell of food is often all it takes to get you feeling all “cravey” and distracted. Haven’t you on occasion walked past a bakery or entered a friend’s kitchen and suddenly the aroma of delicious foods hits you, leaving you tempted? Face it, the smell of food can make you feel hungry as much as the sight of food can. That’s a biological fact we’re stuck with. The solution is to remind yourself, “That’s the aroma of fat cells I don’t need.”

Luckily, there are other things besides drugs, food, and smells that can activate the reward pathways of your brain. In fact, you can start many of the same internal reactions through exercise, meditation, and believe it or not, laughter.

Exercise: Exercise, even moderate exercise, can serve as a tremendous anti-anxiety agent. Research has proven that people who exercise have an enhanced sense of control over their bodies and their lives. Even better, the most recent research indicates that you don’t have to workout to the point of exhaustion.

The old proviso of at least thirty minutes of exercise three times a week is being modified shorter bouts of exercise are just as effective. That means a little bit of physical activity for merely ten minutes at a stretch a few times a day is just as effective as the traditional thirty minute routine. It would seem as if this new research was tailor-made to fit the time needed to overcome the average craving.

Meditation: Whether it is Transcendental or any other kind of meditation, it has been shown to induce a biological state that is the exact opposite of that of stress. Meditation is food for your soul.

It satiates the hunger that is not satisfied by food alone. And when your soul is fed, you have less need to overeat. When you directly experience the fullness of life, then you have less need to attempt to fill the void with food.

Chill Out: Don’t take yourself and your weight-loss efforts so seriously that you become grim about it. Laughter lifts depression, soothes anger, and relieves anxiety. Many of my clients keep on hand a videotape of a favorite old comedy or sitcom episode, something that just makes them laugh out loud. You can’t laugh and eat at the same time. Humor kills food cravings.

Exercise, meditation, and laughter are three nonfood alternatives that are not only healthy and fun, they give you the scientific edge. With these three substitutions you are not only protecting yourself from the craving, you are changing the underlying chemistry that leads to craving, preventing later attacks.

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Tomorrow is the big day. You can either gain a pound or two or with planning still enjoy all the food but not gain weight

How many people get worried when Christmas is on the horizon? They also get all stressed out at any festival time which involves food. The festive season is a great time for people to feel guilty over what they have or haven’t eaten. Most people go over and over the errors they have made over the holidays which spoils the time they should have been having with friends and family.

With a little planning you can enjoy the feast and celebration but without an ounce of regret. If you start to plan now you can see yourself going through the festive seasons and enjoy yourself and the food you eat.

Let’s imagine it is Christmas day and it is your turn to cook the dinner. Your family wants the traditional meal and no corners cut. You are now in a panic, what if the meal turns out to be a flop because I burn the potatoes, or even worse forget to light the cooker. Then I have to eat all this food, the starter, and the turkey with all the trimmings, the Christmas pudding with flaming brandy and brandy sauce or butter.

What about all the chocolates and nuts while watching television? Then we start again with a meal in the evening. Can you see yourself surrounded by all this food, everybody eating without a care in the world? They forget the hard work that you have put into it, and to make things worse you can see those 10 lbs going on that you have worked so hard to lose.

The secret to a great Christmas is to take the focus off the feast and celebrate the spirit of the season. For starters, stop fretting about the meal.

You may say but I am going away and someone else is doing the cooking what if it is high in fat? Indulge it and enjoy without feeling guilty. Remember you are in control of what you eat.

The potatoes are swimming in fat, make a choice have one only. Fill up your plate with good healthy vegetables. Take the turkey but leave the skin behind. You eat a lot of vegetables, which have been boiled or steamed, so you are quite full. When the pudding comes around you are almost full.

Tell your host it looks delicious but to really appreciate it I will only have a small portion because anything else will make me too full and that would spoil the taste of what you have made.

Make sure you don’t sit watching television with your hands in the nuts or chocolates. If there is fruit around then say that looks good and have some to eat, you might be surprised at how many people will join you.

Another trick is if you have a coffee table where the chocolates or nuts are normally kept then move them into the kitchen or another place. Put attractive bowls of fruit in front of people instead. I have found that people will eat what is in front of them, but they will think twice about walking to another room for chocolates.

Christmas is a time for all the family and that includes you. Make sure you have some time on your own. It doesn’t matter if dinner is served 10 mins late. You will find your family will appreciate having you stress-free rather than snapping at everybody, because of the pressure of the day. Now you will do the following.

When you get up you will have 10 mins for yourself. Go and have a bath and lock the door. Use some wonderful fragrances and relax. If you can’t then tell the family in advance 10 mins for me and then you can have me for the rest of the day. Get a cup of tea or coffee and sit quietly, reflect on the wonderful things in your life. Take this time to ring a dear friend who you know you won’t see on the day. Just chat and relax.

If the family want to pamper you let them, and that includes breakfast. Under no circumstance are you allowed to skip this meal.

You might want to eat less so you can use your calories later in the day, but you must eat something. Let them bring you a boiled egg and toast, with a cup of tea or coffee, and some fresh fruit. It is Christmas buy some exotic fruits and make a fruit salad and squeeze a fresh orange over it. You have the perfect excuse for a light breakfast in that you will be having a large meal later.

You are about to make dinner and the last thing you want is to feel stress. You need to enjoy the day like the rest of the family. Put on some nice music, light a candle in the kitchen; even take a small glass of wine. Relax is the key. Get the turkey into the oven and do as much preparation as you dare. Timing is everything.

If you are not sure when to eat, ask the family. If you need help then make sure you ask the family to give you a hand. If you eat in the evening, then make sure you have a light lunch, some soup, French bread and fresh fruit. Arrange exotic fruits on a platter so people can munch away.

Now you take control either before the meal or afterwards and you say it is time for a walk. Turn on the video so they don’t miss anything, wrap up warm and go for a walk. If you can get into the countryside then go. It is never too cold to walk, you just wrap up well. There is something wonderful about feeling that cool breeze on your face.

The table needs to be set and maybe someone is artistic in the family, get them to do it. Children love to help, don’t be concerned if they do it the wrong way, and encourage them. Give younger children a job to do because they love to help. Let them write place settings, it doesn’t matter if the names are spelt wrong. Get one of the older children to answer the door and greet people. They will feel so proud to do this, and they can also make sure the person has something to drink.

Now is the time to sit and eat the meal that you have lovingly prepared. No you will not feel guilty about it, be thankful for everything that is before you. You have tried to make it as low-fat as possible. Yes you might eat more calories than you would have liked, but you will not feel guilty. It is one day, tomorrow you are back on plan. If you plan carefully then you will not get it wrong. You will know what is on the menu, so you will shop accordingly. You will know what each meal is going to be.

Now I can feel some of you saying, my family always have a certain meal because it is the tradition of our home. They wouldn’t appreciate me doing something different.

My answer is that a tradition was always started by someone. It hasn’t been a tradition from eternity. Someone started it and it continued. Imagine you do something different this year and your family loves it. Keep imagining that you are now sitting with your children and their children having Christmas in their home. How will you feel when one of your children says we do this because Mom did it for us? She started this tradition and we love it so much that we have continued it for the past 20 years. I broke our family traditions many years ago, but replace the old with tasty foods that nobody complained about. You can do the same. Take time to be bold this year and decide that Christmas is going to be healthy for all the family. They will thank you for it in the long run. How many of us blame our bad eating habits on our parents. By keeping to these traditions you are setting yourself up for your children to blame you for their bad eating habits. By starting new traditions of eating you are setting your children up to be healthy and not have a weight problem.

This is one Christmas gift you can all give to your family. Can you afford not to do it?

Between the ages of forty-seven and fifty-two, most women begin to experience the normal part of aging as a woman called menopause.

The reduction of hormones like progesterone and estrogen starts this process. As the process continues, a woman will eventually lose these hormones completely. Many things will begin to change during menopause. Most women have trouble concentrating on tasks that they used to enjoy. Many have periods of terrible moods swings.

Most have hot flashes and night sweats which can be debilitating. Others deal with joint pain and headaches on a regular basis. Many women complain about having difficult sleeping. One of the most dreaded problems associated with menopause, though, is weight gain. In recent years, many scientific studies have been done to examine the links between menopause and weight gain to understand how woman can prevent this problem.

One interesting study suggested that as a woman loses estrogen and progesterone, two of the most important hormones in her body, she will be predisposed to gain more weight because the production of these hormones means that she is no longer burning the calories that she once was.

Moreover, because most women feel fatigued and generally unwell during this time of change, she does not tend to be as motivated to stick with her normal exercise program. Add to this the fact that her condition brings on a sudden want of her standard comfort foods which usually includes calorically heavy meals and desserts that are rich in calories, and you have certain weight gain on your hands. Additionally, most women who have already experienced menopause have also experienced a decrease in their metabolism, which means even more retained calories.

All of these factors can also make it very hard for a woman who is experiencing menopause to lose the weight she has gained. Losing weight during menopause is certainly possible, but it has to be undertaken as a serious challenge.

The most important change a woman can make in her life is to work with her resting energy expenditure, which is scientifically called her resting metabolic rate. To keep your healthy weight, the resting metabolic rate must account for more than seventy percent of the energy you use on a day-to-day basis. Because this rate depends on an individual’s muscle mass, the resting metabolic rate will decrease as a woman gets older and loses her muscle mass.

If you want to lose weight during menopause, you should make some dietary changes first. Don’t turn to your normal high calorie foods to comfort you during this rough time. Your diet should primarily consist of fruits and vegetables, lean means, brown rice, bread, and flour. You should also change the way you eat.

Consider four to five small meals each day. Each of your meals should be balanced and healthy. This will help your weight to disappear and stay gone. Proper exercise can also help you fight the weight gain. Moreover, proper exercise can contribute to helping you feel well during this difficult time.

Losing weight during menopause is a basic as losing weight during any other point in your life. You must consume fewer calories than your burn during your normal exercise routine.

Try to avoid all fast food, and start by walking thirty minutes each day. These two simple things alone can help you to build your heart muscles and feel better about your life. Talk to your doctor if you are concerned about your weight gain, and the two of you can set up a program that might work best for you.

Hoodia has been all over the news for the last 2 years. With good reason, Hoodia has become the most popular weight loss product to hit the world in decades.

See what just one new service had to say about Hoodia:

(CBS) Each year, people spend more than $40 billion on products designed to help them slim down. None of them seem to be working very well.

Now along comes hoodia. Never heard of it? Soon it’ll be tripping off your tongue, because hoodia is a natural substance that literally takes your appetite away.

It’s very different from diet stimulants like Ephedra and Phenfen that are now banned because of dangerous side effects. Hoodia doesn’t stimulate at all. Scientists say it fools the brain by making you think you’re full, even if you’ve eaten just a morsel. Correspondent Lesley Stahl reports.

“Hoodia, a plant that tricks the brain by making the stomach feel full, has been in the diet of South Africa’s Bushmen for thousands of years.”

Because the only place in the world where hoodia grows wild is in the Kalahari Desert of South Africa.

Nigel Crawhall, a linguist and interpreter, hired an experienced tracker named Toppies Kruiper, a local aboriginal Bushman, to help find it. The Bushmen were featured in the movie “The Gods Must Be Crazy.”

Kruiper led 60 Minutes crews out into the desert. Stahl asked him if he ate hoodia. “I really like to eat them when the new rains have come,” says Kruiper, speaking through the interpreter. “Then they’re really quite delicious.”

When we located the plant, Kruiper cut off a stalk that looked like a small spiky pickle, and removed the sharp spines. In the interest of science, Stahl ate it. She described the taste as “a little cucumbery in texture, but not bad.”

So how did it work? Stahl says she had no after effects - no funny taste in her mouth, no queasy stomach, and no racing heart. She also wasn’t hungry all day, even when she would normally have a pang around mealtime. And, she also had no desire to eat or drink the entire day. “I’d have to say it did work,” says Stahl.

Although the West is just discovering hoodia, the Bushmen of the Kalahari have been eating it for a very long time. After all, they have been living off the land in southern Africa for more than 100,000 years.

Some of the Bushmen, like Anna Swartz, still live in old traditional huts, and cook so-called Bush food gathered from the desert the old-fashioned way.

The first scientific investigation of the plant was conducted at South Africa’s national laboratory. Because Bushmen were known to eat hoodia, it was included in a study of indigenous foods.

“What they found was when they fed it to animals, the animals ate it and lost weight,” says Dr. Richard Dixey, who heads an English pharmaceutical company called Phytopharm that is trying to develop weight-loss products based on hoodia.

Was hoodia’s potential application as an appetite suppressant immediately obvious?

“No, it took them a long time. In fact, the original research was done in the mid 1960s,” says Dixey.

It took the South African national laboratory 30 years to isolate and identify the specific appetite-suppressing ingredient in hoodia. When they found it, they applied for a patent and licensed it to Phytopharm.

Phytopharm has spent more than $20 million so far on research, including clinical trials with obese volunteers that have yielded promising results. Subjects given hoodia ended up eating about 1,000 calories a day less than those in the control group. To put that in perspective, the average American man consumes about 2,600 calories a day; a woman about 1,900.

“If you take this compound every day, your wish to eat goes down. And we’ve seen that very, very dramatically,” says Dixey.

But why do you need a patent for a plant? “The patent is on the application of the plant as a weight-loss material. And, of course, the active compounds within the plant. It’s not on the plant itself,” says Dixey.

So no one else can use hoodia for weight loss? “As a weight-management product without infringing the patent, that’s correct,” says Dixey.

But what does that say about all these weight-loss products that claim to have hoodia in it? Trimspa says its X32 pills contain 75 mg of hoodia. The company is pushing its product with an ad campaign featuring Anna Nicole Smith, even though the FDA has notified Trimspa that it hasn’t demonstrated that the product is safe.

Some companies have even used the results of Phytopharm’s clinical tests to market their products.

“This is just straightforward theft. That’s what it is. People are stealing data, which they haven’t done, they’ve got no proper understanding of, and sticking on the bottle,” says Dixey. “When we have assayed these materials, they contain between 0.1 and 0.01 percent of the active ingredient claimed. But they use the term hoodia on the bottle, of course, so they — does nothing at all.”

But Dixey isn’t the only one who’s felt ripped off. The Bushmen first heard the news about the patent when Phytopharm put out a press release. Roger Chennells, a lawyer in South Africa who represents the Bushmen, who are also called “the San,” was appalled.

“The San did not even know about it,” says Chennells. “They had given the information that led directly toward the patent.”

The taking of traditional knowledge without compensation is called “bio-piracy.”

“You have said, and I’m going to quote you, ‘that the San felt as if someone had stolen the family silver,’” says Stahl to Chennells. “So what did you do?”

“I wouldn’t want to go into some of the details as to what kind of letters were written or what kind of threats were made,” says Chennells. “We engaged them. They had done something wrong, and we wanted them to acknowledge it.”

Chennells was determined to help the Bushmen who, he says, have been exploited for centuries. First they were pushed aside by black tribes. Then, when white colonists arrived, they were nearly annihilated.

“About the turn of the century, there were still hunting parties in Namibia and in South Africa that allowed farmers to go and kill Bushmen,” says Chennells. “It’s well documented.”

The Bushmen are still stigmatized in South Africa, and plagued with high unemployment, little education, and lots of alcoholism. And now, it seemed they were about to be cut out of a potential windfall from hoodia. So Chennells threatened to sue the national lab on their behalf.

“We knew that if it was successful, many, many millions of dollars would be coming towards the San,” says Chennells. “Many, many millions. They’ve talked about the market being hundreds and hundreds of millions in America.”
In the end, a settlement was reached. The Bushmen will get a percentage of the profits — if there are profits. But that’s a big if.

The future of hoodia is not yet a sure thing. The project hit a major snag last year. Pharmaceutical giant Pfizer, which had teamed up with Phytopharm, and funded much of the research, dropped out when making a pill out of the active ingredient seemed beyond reach.

Dixey says it can be made synthetically: “We’ve made milligrams of it. But it’s very expensive. It’s not possible to make it synthetically in what’s called a scaleable process. So we couldn’t make a metric ton of it or something that is the sort of quantity you’d need to actually start doing something about obesity in thousands of people.”

Phytopharm decided to market hoodia in its natural form, in diet shakes and bars. That meant it needed the hoodia plant itself.

But given the obesity epidemic in the United States, it became obvious that what was needed was a lot of hoodia - much more than was growing in the wild in the Kalahari. And so they came here.

60 Minutes visited one of Phytopharm’s hoodia plantations in South Africa. They’ll need a lot of these plantations to meet the expected demand.

Agronomist Simon MacWilliam has a tall order: grow a billion portions a year of hoodia, within just a couple of years. He admitted that starting up the plantation has been quite a challenge.

“The problem is we’re dealing with a novel crop. It’s a plant we’ve taken out of the wild and we’re starting to grow it,’ says MacWilliam. “So we have no experience. So it’s different? diseases and pests which we have to deal with.”

How confident are they that they will be able to grow enough? “We’re very confident of that,” he says. “We’ve got an expansion program which is going to be 100s of acres. And we’ll be able - ready to meet the demand.

This could be huge, given the obesity epidemic. Phytopharm says it’s about to announce marketing plans that will have meal-replacement hoodia products on supermarket shelves by 2008.

MacWilliam says these products are a slightly different species from the hoodia Stahl tasted in the Kalahari Desert. “It’s actually a lot more bitter than the plant that you tasted,” says MacWilliam.

The advantage is this species of hoodia will grow a lot faster. But more bitter? How bad could it be? Stahl decided to find out. “Not good,” she says.

Phytopharm says that when its product gets to market, it will be certified safe and effective. They also promise that it’ll taste good.

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For me, I find that a low fat diet is much easier to stick to than a low carb diet, yet, we all need a little help here and there. Below are 3 simple, yet, effective ways to keep you on track with your low fat diet.

Always know what you’re going to have for dinner well before you begin preparing a meal. If you get into the habit of doing that, there will be no pressing need to measure portions, count calories or forgo your favorite foods. When you plan your meals, eating appropriate portions will follow naturally.

1. Planning a meal begins at the kitchen table, not with knife and fork but with pencil and paper. For most people, planning meals about a week in advance works best. Whether you’re going to be trying some new recipes, relying on family favorites, or both, it’s extremely helpful to have the actual list of ingredients right in front of you. It’s worth double-checking to make sure that you have all the appropriate condiments for each recipe or meal: Parmesan cheese for the pasta, lemon for the fish, yogurt for the baked potato and so forth. Herbs, spices and condiments help give food the quality of being a “meal,” which is exactly the quality that we’re striving for.

2. Try to buy only as much food as will fit into your planned menus. There are two ways to do this. One is to make every effort not to buy excessive amounts of food in the first place, and the other is to learn how to use leftovers in a creative but planned manner. If you’re the kind of person who knows how to turn leftovers into a good lunch or dinner, you have a definite advantage here. If not, you can either ask friends for tips, buy some recipe books or be especially diligent when making your purchases.

That may mean, for instance, going a little out of your way to buy meat from a butcher instead of the supermarket, in order to get the portions you really want. Instead of buying a whole chicken, you may want to buy a couple of split breasts or some legs. A butcher will usually give you exactly the amount of ground beef you want, and it’s easy to store leftovers, raw or cooked, for future use. You may also want to emphasize non-meat items - rice, noodles, beans and potatoes - in your diet, because many are easily stored and conveniently portioned.

3. Don’t put more on the table than you want to eat at that meal. In the case of the chocolate cake mentioned before, the sensible thing to do is to cut out one large piece that can be divided into a reasonable portion for everyone at the table and then wrap and store the remainder.

Putting the rest of that cake in the freezer may also be a good idea, so you won’t have to “worry” that it will go bad unless you polish it off. Some cooks enjoy bringing a large roast or casserole to the table because it looks very impressive. But if experience tells you that all that food sitting on the table is going to create a desire to eat more than you really want, do the carving or serving on the kitchen counter and then store the rest before eating.

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