Portion Control

Posts: 31 Member
edited December 2024 in Health and Weight Loss
Is anyone else doing portion control for weight loss? I use the Portion Perfection bowls and plates for a meal that has individual types of food (like potatoes, meat, etc), frozen foods I do by serving size and for casserole type food, I add all ingredients together and figure calories by the number of servings i get out of the dish. I also use a mini cutlery set by Godinger that i got from Amazon.com. The smaller plate and utensils help a lot!

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  • Posts: 186 Member
    Is anyone else doing portion control for weight loss? I use the Portion Perfection bowls and plates for a meal that has individual types of food (like potatoes, meat, etc), frozen foods I do by serving size and for casserole type food, I add all ingredients together and figure calories by the number of servings i get out of the dish. I also use a mini cutlery set by Godinger that i got from Amazon.com. The smaller plate and utensils help a lot!

    That sounds like a great plan! It would help you learn to visualize proper portions for home and when you eat out.

    I just had a bowl of cornflakes, topped with a sliced banana. Something about it reminded me of how my mother only ever used a half banana, then I remembered that our cereal bowls were about one third the size of mine. I've just gradually gotten used to bigger and bigger portions of everything.

  • Posts: 257 Member
    I think its a great approach but being a precise spreadsheet control freak type of person, I prefer to weigh and log everything. If it works for you, then it can't be wrong !
  • Posts: 1,594 Member
    It’s another method of achieving a calorie deficit. I do this with my own one cup and half cup volume containers much of the time. My nutritional goals are based on getting a specific number of servings of certain food groups within a calorie range. I recognize that this method is imprecise for calorie counting, but I am still losing weight (albeit slowly). I am now within 10 lbs from being a healthy BMI. For me, I prefer this method because it is something I find easy and it feels sustainable. I believe this will serve me well once I reach maintenance.
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    The good part was that I could relax and eat as much as I needed instead of over-restricting. A food scale is a very liberating tool.

    This !
  • Posts: 28,055 Member
    When I first started weight loss I was at about 220 pounds and had over 70 pounds to lose. I used cups and smaller portions and I guessed on calories for that first 40 pounds and it worked fine. It's easy to lose weight when you have a lot to lose.

    When I got within 30 pounds of my goal, that didn't work anymore. I then bought a digital food scale for $20 on amazon, and was able to lose the rest of my weight by keeping a close log of my food and exercise. It's a lot harder and requires more vigilance when there isn't a lot of weight to lose.

    The good part was that I could relax and eat as much as I needed instead of over-restricting. A food scale is a very liberating tool.

    Yes, measuring cups always stressed me out. I was always wondering how tightly to pack them. I also find using a food scale liberating.

    And I don't have to measuring wash cups and spoons!
  • Posts: 35,839 Member
    kshama2001 wrote: »

    Yes, measuring cups always stressed me out. I was always wondering how tightly to pack them. I also find using a food scale liberating.

    And I don't have to measuring wash cups and spoons!

    Scale's a huge timesaver, too, compared to cups/spoons, once a person figures out the tricks, for reasons well beyond the washing up.
  • Posts: 713 Member

    guarantee you i could fill ANY container with more than my daily allotment of calories

    This had me laughing out loud. I have played that game--"It's such a small serving. A little chocolate sauce, maybe some caramel, oh, and a "few" peanuts won't make a big difference . . . " And worse :)

    The games we play--and yet, we know darn well what we are doing most of the time, don't we?
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    Invest in the Portion Perfection kit on Amazon! It is $50 but worth every penny! The book is great and the portion control dishes help so much. I still do a lot of measuring with my kitchen scale, depends on the food. One of the most helpful things to me is eating off the smaller plate with my mini-cutlery set. The book talks a lot about how a portion has increased over the years.

    I guess you missed the response right above yours - most of us could get more than our daily allotment of calories into any container/kit!
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