Tip #20 - Do Not Eat or Snack While You Are Cooking

Just as it is bad to snack on foods because you never really know how much you have eaten, it is horrible to pick at what you are cooking. If you are making dinner, you will end up eating half a meal while cooking, and then sit down and have a full dinner. Having little tastes of the food is ok, but not preferred. You lose a lot of control over how much you are eating by tasting foods while preparing dinner, and then sitting down to dinner. It is much better that you cook and then eat, as opposed to eating while cooking, and then eating the meal (there is just too much eating in that one sentence to make it good for weight loss).