Re: Maintaining the right portion sizes
03/22/11 10:49 AM
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Toady
Reged: 04/06/06
Posts: 1299
Loc: A small city, Northwestern Ontario, Canada
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I, well we, actually use a digital scale to measure our portions. Measuring out your food will help you not overeat and have attacks. Because I'm a little eater, my portions are 2 to 3 ounces of chicken breast, 3/4 cup of starch, and 1/2 to 3/4 cup veggies for dinner. Or if it's pasta or rice as the main part of the meal, I might eat a cup at a serving. And I eat on a salad plate or use a pasta bowl. It looks less intimidating than a dinner plate.
Shakes are a great idea too! Heather has some great recipes. I actually drink low-sodium V8 juice with green barley powder in it for lunch with some toast or crackers for a soluable fiber buffer.
Keeping a food diary also helps know exactly what you ate. Hubby and I both keep one. There are a number of excellent online "diet" resources that let you track your food. We do it and found it makes a huge difference when we realize what we're putting in our mouth (and helped the waistline too!)
(Note: I'm fairly stable, so I'm vegging out as much as I can tolerate in my diet.)
Good luck!
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