.: Can Certain Colors Help You Lose Weight?



There is a theory that if you eat certain colors of food, or off of certain color plates you can lose weight. This is called by some the rainbow diet, or the color diet. Is it true if you eat off of red plates you will eat more than off of a gray plate? What about certain foods? One author makes the argument that if you eat more red, green, and yellow foods you will lose weight. Taking into mind that most red, green and yellow foods are vegetables and fruits perhaps it isn't the color so much as the healthiness of eating fresh fruits and vegetables.
Author Piper Mathison suggests that eating food the same color as the dinner plate can also cause you to over eat. Her argument, based on scientific research suggests that we aren't able to tell the difference between how much we've already eaten and what is left on the plate, based on this theory we over eat simply because we cannot tell how much has already been consumed. In the same idea, according to the Deception Diet, we can trick ourselves into eating less if we just bought smaller plates.
Whether it is the color or size of the plate, the real question a lot of dieters struggle with is what the secrets to easy weight loss are. Weight loss though is seldom easy, and looking for a quick fix is usually a bad idea. Proven weight loss has been in changing how much you eat and the types of food you eat. The color of the walls, plates, or restaurants, is not as important as the type of food and the amount that you are eating. For instance, the color diet suggests that you eat food such as Sweet Potatoes, Tomatoes, Avocados, red, green, yellow, or hot peppers, and so on. The main idea of course is choosing different color foods to make for the healthiest diet possible. Does this really work though? Well it does, but not because of the color of the food but rather the fact that these are healthy choices to make. One of the best diet foods out there is Avocado's, and that isn't because they are green but rather the vitamins and nutrients in the vegetable that makes it healthy.
If you want to be successful in weight loss, then it is correct that you should eat more green foods, as in green leafy vegetables, fresh fruits, and avoiding processed foods. Calories matter, would you be surprised to find out that most of the salads at McDonald's have the same calorie count as a Big Mac, showing that fast food salads aren't necessarily better than burgers; both of them are bad if you want to lose weight.
Instead of wondering about the color of the plate that you are eating off of, start concerning yourself with the amount of food; portions, and preparation are a lot more important than color. Stay away from fast food, processed foods and start making healthy choices, lean poultry, fish, lean cuts of pork and beef, are all a lot more important than color coding your dishes, or pantry.