Portion size? Portion control during meals?

This isn't something anyone else can help you with without knowing your height/weight and goal. Even then, it varies. Use this site the way it's designed, enter your information and weight goal and how quickly you want to lose and it will give you a daily calorie goal. You can decide where to break up your calories from there. Use a food scale to make sure you are measuring portions correctly. Good luck!

Everyone is different so what looks like a normal or even small breakfast to them might look like a huge breakfast to someone else. You find out your deficit bY putting your stats into mfp and break them through the day how you see fit.

Get a food scale. Weight your eggs, even your spinach if you like. Weigh your oat meal, fruit, and especially almonds. Log everything. Do you have enough room in your day for whatever else you need to stay full and fit your macros? That's the only way you'll know. Good luck.

JenMaselli wrote: »

This isn't something anyone else can help you with without knowing your height/weight and goal. Even then, it varies. Use this site the way it's designed, enter your information and weight goal and how quickly you want to lose and it will give you a daily calorie goal. You can decide where to break up your calories from there. Use a food scale to make sure you are measuring portions correctly. Good luck!

Sound advice. Use MFP as it's set up for you after you put in all of your goals. With only 15 pounds to lose, don't expect to be able to lose 2 pounds per week consistently; weight loss just doesn't work that way.

Pound per week goals
75+ lbs set to lose 2 lb range
Between 40 - 75 lbs set to lose 1.5 lb range
Between 25-40 lbs set to lose 1 lb range
Between 15-25 lbs set to lose 1 -.50 lb range
Less than 15 lbs set to lose 0.5 lbs range

If you don't have a food scale, buy one and use it faithfully. The less weight you have to lose, the more precise your calorie entries need to be. Weighing your food will give you more consistent results.

Log everything you eat. MFP gives you a calorie goal for each day. Budget your calories wisely. If you eat a large breakfast, you'll have to eat less during the rest of the day. If you like to have a snack after dinner, save calories for your snack so you won't go over your goal.

Don't "play" with the numbers. You want to overestimate the calories you eat and underestimate the calories you burn in exercise. Fudging the numbers does you no favors.

Understand that weight loss is not linear. Some weeks you will lose more than others and some weeks you might even gain due to water retention. Grab a tape measure, measure yourself and track the measurements in MFP. Sometimes you're shrinking when you aren't losing pounds. Take before pictures, too, for comparison later.

mikeyrs wrote: »

LetsDestroyFat wrote: »

I'm having trouble with dieting I've never done it effectively so today is my first day. I had two fried eggs salt pepper some spinach and a side of oatmeal with berries and nuts.

Is this too big for a breakfast portion? I want to loose weight (15 lbs) and I'd like to see significant results come end of May.

Strict dieting is so hard for me I don't have much time to cook so I rely heavily on my exercise (5 days a week / 2 hrs) what's a reasonable goal for me?

In general, the breakfast shown is an awesome beginning which seems ideally balanced and healthy. For portion control, you can use the single serving packages that are available. I would guess you have a 600 calorie breakfast shown, including the milk, nuts, berries, and dried fruit. The only other change I would suggest is to immediately eliminate table salt from your diet, so you're less likely to retain water. Your lunch should be a bit smaller than breakfast, and dinner should be smaller still. About portion control... should you ever be in doubt, fist size or open palm size is about right for most foods including meats and vegetables.

* single serving package for the oatmeal.