Portion sizes

lauren3101

Anyone else look back and get really shocked at how much they used to eat?

I had some rice for the first time since losing weight the other day, and actually weighed it. One recommended portion is 75g dried. Well, I poured out this pathetic amount of rice and decided that wouldn't feed my cat, so bumped it up to a (still very small looking) 120g.

Well by the time it had cooked, it made a mountain on my plate, and I couldn't eat it all. I realised a little sheepishly that actually, 75g would have been plenty! Before I'd started this journey, I would have cooked double that and eaten the lot.

Another example is cereal. I have discovered I can eat the recommended 30g now rather than filling my bowl to the brim, and still be full. Before, each bowl of cereal must have been about 600 cals!

Anyone else had anything similar, and what was it?

Gramps251

Yes, portion size suprises me sometimes. I keep the kitchen scale out on the counter all the time now