Portion Tips

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Portion Tips
How to gauge how much is too much

It isn’t often that we eat with measuring cups or scales, so how can we determine if we are eating the

1 oz slice of bread or the ½ cup of brown rice? Here, EatingWell shares some of our tricks.
1 tablespoon of peanut butter: about the size of an egg, cut in half lengthwise.
1 cup of cereal: the size of an average person’s fist
1 oz. French bread: the size and shape of half a deck of cards
5 oz glass of wine: It should be filled to the fattest part of the glass, about half way depending on the type of wine glass.
3 oz. cooked flank steak: about 5 thin slices

Recommended Reading on Portion Sizes
The Portion Teller
Smartsize Your Way to Permanent Weight Loss
By Lisa R. Young, Ph.D., R.D.



For anyone planning to start the new year by going on yet another weight-loss diet, The Portion Teller might be just the right counterstrategy. Its practical approach focuses less on what to eat and more on how much. “Expanding portion sizes is the primary reason that we are facing an obesity epidemic,” declares author Lisa Young, a nutrition professor at New York University.

As a Ph.D. student in the 1990s, Young was the first to notice—and document—the shocking growth of portion sizes served in America, and her findings are well known: soda cups the size of rain barrels, bagels equivalent to five slices of bread. Her eating plan combats this trend with “smartsizing”—developing portion-size awareness with plenty of imaginative, memorable visuals (one salad dressing serving is half a shot glass; one pasta serving is half a baseball). Practical advice and fascinating—if sobering—reading.
—Joyce Hendley

ChubbyBunny

Portion Tips
How to gauge how much is too much

It isn’t often that we eat with measuring cups or scales, so how can we determine if we are eating the

1 oz slice of bread or the ½ cup of brown rice? Here, EatingWell shares some of our tricks.
1 tablespoon of peanut butter: about the size of an egg, cut in half lengthwise.
1 cup of cereal: the size of an average person’s fist
1 oz. French bread: the size and shape of half a deck of cards
5 oz glass of wine: It should be filled to the fattest part of the glass, about half way depending on the type of wine glass.
3 oz. cooked flank steak: about 5 thin slices

Recommended Reading on Portion Sizes
The Portion Teller
Smartsize Your Way to Permanent Weight Loss
By Lisa R. Young, Ph.D., R.D.



For anyone planning to start the new year by going on yet another weight-loss diet, The Portion Teller might be just the right counterstrategy. Its practical approach focuses less on what to eat and more on how much. “Expanding portion sizes is the primary reason that we are facing an obesity epidemic,” declares author Lisa Young, a nutrition professor at New York University.

As a Ph.D. student in the 1990s, Young was the first to notice—and document—the shocking growth of portion sizes served in America, and her findings are well known: soda cups the size of rain barrels, bagels equivalent to five slices of bread. Her eating plan combats this trend with “smartsizing”—developing portion-size awareness with plenty of imaginative, memorable visuals (one salad dressing serving is half a shot glass; one pasta serving is half a baseball). Practical advice and fascinating—if sobering—reading.
—Joyce Hendley