Healthy Weight Loss
What is a serving
Many people have trouble visualising the size of servings. Serving sizes for healthy weight loss are standardized amounts of food with specific calorie and nutrient contents. . To make sure you aren't overeating, you must know the size of a serving. The following everyday approximations should help.
- Approximate Single-Serving Sizes
- Grilled fish
- Personal check book
- Potato
- Computer mouse
- Meat serving
- Deck of cards
- Hard cheese
- Four dice
- Apple/Orange
- Tennis ball
Once we see how small servings are, most of us realize our portions are way too big. A typical serving of steak at a restaurant, for example, is the size of four decks of cards, the equivalent of four servings. Obviously, choosing to eat wisely means giving importance both to what and to how much we eat. Serving sizes can be sneaky. You think you're watching your calories by glancing at the nutrition information on the back of your favourite food or beverage, but beware: If you don't read carefully, you could be taking in four or five times the calories you think you are.
For example, that bag of Bear Naked Banana Nut granola that you like for breakfast. Pour yourself a medium bowlful and you could be eating as many calories and grams of fat as a McDonald's double cheeseburger. That's because the actual serving size is only 1/4 cup (a mere 4 tablespoons) and 140 calories. Pour a whole cup's worth (which is easy to do) and you're eating 560 calories and 28 grams of fat.
They always say you are what you eat, so if you eat too much you will become fat. Yes you may have hunger pangs to start with as you control your servings for healthy weight loss, but you stomach will begin to shrink over time
David Ogden
Healthy Weight Loss
Phone 386 308 1956 after 6PM EST
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