Dinner Plate & Finances?
WHAT DOES THE SIZE OF YOUR DINNER PLATE HAVE TO DO WITH YOUR FINANCES?
Do you remember being told to finish everything on your plate by your parents? That there are starving children out there that go hungry?
I do, and given we were fortunate to have dinner on the table every night no matter how tight my families budget was, I wasn’t going to leave a morsel for my siblings to try and steal either!
Well, as studies have found, the size of your plate matters when it comes to weight loss…..fill your plate up with food and you will eat it up…..the larger your plate….the more you tend to eat….the smaller your plate, the less you will eat.
What I am getting at here is that no matter the portion size, when it comes to eating, we tend to eat whatever is on the plate.
Tricking the brain to clean a smaller plate clean will not only leave you feeling satisfied, and not restricted, it will also help your waistline.
Now, how does this relate to your finances? Well besides the reduced shopping bill, because you may be eating less, if you apply the same theory to your finances you may well help your bank balance….all be it, on the plus side!
Have you ever wondered why it didn’t matter how much you earned, that it wasn’t ever enough or that your bank account was always empty by the time the next payslip arrived?
Or you see your bank balance sitting there tempting you to spend it….that’s what it’s there for right?
Well, let apply the smaller plate theory and reduce that main bank account before you even get to spend it.
If you put away some money in another account (before it hit your spending account) then your brain will see that you only have X amount in your bank account to spend for the month; you still may splurge but you probably will spend up every last cent.
However, not only will you have avoided the increased waistline over the year …..You will also have an increased savings account balance!
Think about it. Big plate, small plate? Bigger bank balance, smaller bank balance?
- Coach Rach
