Estimating Portions

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EnchantedEvening
EnchantedEvening Posts: 671 Member
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Sometimes, when I buy a bunch of grapes from the cafe at work or I'm eating out, I can't always measure my portions. Later, when I enter things into my diary, I struggle a bit to estimate.

I just found a pretty thorough guide to estimating. I'd only seen meat portions before (the infamous fist or deck of cards), but this has grains, fruits, veggies, meat, snacks... all kinds of stuff. :)

http://caloriecount.about.com/article/when_you_cant_measure_estimate_portions

I hope this helps you too!

(If anyone finds this to be inaccurate, please let me know.)

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  • diannethegeek
    diannethegeek Posts: 14,776 Member
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    Thanks for this. It looks to be very useful!
  • drcrimson
    drcrimson Posts: 20 Member
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    That's a great tool. I also recently bought a small scale ( <$10) and been using that to weigh things. After a while you get a good fill for it and your estimate is close enough.

    Yolodiet.com

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