Your Strategy: You bring a healthy dish to a gathering to ensure there’s something you can indulge in.
More Tricks to Try:
Eat the best-for-you offerings first. For example, hot soup as
a first course — especially when it’s broth-based, not cream-based — can help you avoid eating too much during the main course.
Stand more than an arm’s length away from munchies, like a bowl of nuts or chips, while you chat so you’re not tempted to raise your hand to your mouth every few seconds.
Concentrate on your meal while you’re eating it — focusing on chewing your food well and enjoying the smell, taste, and texture of each item. Research shows that mealtime multitasking (whether at home or at a party) can make you pop mindless calories into your mouth. Of course, dinner-party conversation is only natural, but try to set your food down until you’re finished chatting so you are more aware of what you’re taking in.
