There are multiple food options available to me
from supermarkets and fast foods and restaurants
and bakeries and the cooking I do at home.

I overbuy, and I overcook.
I've not been able to control these behaviors,
....although God Knows I've tried....
and this makes the issue of Food Storage essential for me.

When I was a child, I frequently heard people say that 
their eyes were bigger than their stomach.
Although, of course, I understood what the saying meant...
some of my overweight and obese relatives clearly had very large stomachs
and generally ate as much as their eyes caused them to put on their plates.
plus more.

Well... that saying  hold true for me.
What I buy and what I cook...
is far more than the amount that should go into my stomach.

Since I haven't been able to control my behavior at the initial level,
...I overbuy and I overcook.,
I've had to address it at the next level..
the level between obtaining the food and ingesting the food.
Storage involves delaying that food ingestion.

My success at weight-loss and at maintenance of that weight-loss
requires that I don't eat everything that I buy or cook.
Sometimes I have to throw food away,
but my preference is to store it away for another eating occasion.

Food Storage is a really big issue in my life,
and making that task into a simple and easy Habit
has become essential for me.

I've addressed my food storage methods in several videos
which are located under Tips & Tricks of my RECIPE section.

Dealing with Leftovers - involves storage of leftover solid foods.
More About Dealing with Leftovers - involves storage of leftover liquid type foods.
Storing Cookies - involves storage of leftover small baked items like cookies, and cookie dough.
The video below demonstrates my technique for storing fruit and cream pies.

    This video gives information on how to store leftover pies. 

Dr. Collins of www.DietHobby.com shares Diet Cooking Tips & Tricks.

 
Makes 6 servings

Ingredients:

1 pound lean ground beef
1 large raw onion
1 can diced tomatoes (14 oz can)
1 can kidney beans (14 oz can)
1 package mild chili seasoning dry mix (McCormick)

Directions:

Chop onion.
Spray non-stick coating on large pan,
and place on medium-high heat.
Crumble ground beef into pan,  add chopped onions.
Cook until meat is brown all through.
(If you didn't use lean ground beef, drain pan)

Sitr in tomatoes, beans and dry seasoning mix.
Bring to a boil, stirring frequently.
Reduce heat and simmer at least 15 minutes, stirring occasionally.

1/6 of receipe is one serving.
1 serving is:

Calories: 213
Carbs: 22.7 grams
Protein 21.1 grams

Makes 4 servings

Ingredients:

4  Three-ounce boneless Pork Chops
2 TB coconut Oil (or olive or other oil)
1 tsp Soy sauce
1/4 cup Cider Vinegar
4 packages Splenda
1 large raw onion.

Directions:

Thinly slice onion.
Spray non-stick coating on large skillet,
and place on medium-high heat.
Melt oil in pan
Brown pork chops in heated oil over  medium-high heat, turning once.

Combine soy sauce, cider vinegar and Splenda and pour over meat and drippings.
Separate sliced onion into rings and add to skillet.
Cover skillet and cook over low heat about 40-45 minutes or until tender.
Check occasionally, making sure heat isn't too high.
You want some of the tasty juices to remain in the pan.

1/4 of this recipe is one serving.
1 serving is:

Calories: 289
Carbs: 2.8 grams
Protein 22.7 grams

                                                                  
Previously I've written two articles about the Body Mass Index (BMI).
Below is a very wise statement about the meaning of the BMI
by a member of one of the forums I frequent.

"Well, here's the thing:
there can be a difference between "heavy" and "unhealthy".
Not everyone who is over the BMI range labeled "normal"
is necessarily an unhealthy, unfit specimen.

This is just a natural result of using population-level averages
to define arbitrary cutoff values: of course any given individual
may have differences from the overall average!

I don't quite think BMI is bad science, in itself:
it's just a number, after all.
It's how it's used that can lead to trouble.

The BMI charts, which are really just fancied-up height/weight tables,
are supposed to offer a first-glance idea of whether you are "likely"
to have a suite of health problems associated with being overweight.

But ideally, if you've got the individual right there in front of you,
you could take a "second" glance and see if the person really does
have the health problems "correlated" with being in a certain range.

One could check out their heart, measure their blood numbers
for things like cholesterol, etc. -- you don't have to "guess",
when you've got a person right there.

(But, alas, medicine as practiced currently does tend towards
the easy, look-it-up-on-a-chart approach,
and all too many doctors never go beyond that.)

And as I say, it's quite possible for someone to be outside
the chart range but not unhealthy in these other ways
(and vice versa: BMI in the normal range
is not an automatic guarantee of health!).

So yeah, I'd think that one shouldn't panic about being a bit
outside the range that The Chart says you should be in,
if you're otherwise fit and healthy.

At the same time, if you've got a BMI in the 30s,
you probably don't really need The Chart to tell you
that you may have a problem with your weight."