Are your portions controlling YOU???

Hey all!!

          QUESTION???

             Are your portions controlling YOU or are YOU controlling your portions??

    So I often say, portion control, watch how much you eat, drink... etc.. BUT do you even KNOW what an actual portion of something looks like? Odds are, probably NOT!

    You probably have somewhat of an idea of what a portion looks like but not to worry! It's actually not your fault that portion sizes are not intuitive to you! We aren't really ever taught growing up to measure our foods and restaurants and fast food places don't really give us much help in that department either. They usually pile on the food and you get about three times what a healthy portion actually is! NOT to worry! I am here to HELP!

   There are a couple of ways to measure your food. The most accurate is with a kitchen scale. This handy tool helps you know EXACTLY how much of everything you are consuming! And I highly recommend buying one! It will help you understand how much of something looks like and in the future make portioning second nature! This tool will help build the greatest tool we have, OUR BRAIN! It will help train your brain to just KNOW what a portion of something looks like!

Here are a few with great ratings from amazon:

http://www.amazon.com/Ozeri-Digital-Multifunction-Kitchen-Elegant/dp/B004164SRA/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1406844532&sr=8-1&keywords=food+scale

http://www.amazon.com/EatSmart-Precision-Digital-Kitchen-Silver/dp/B001N07KUE/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1406844586&sr=8-3&keywords=food+scale&dpPl=1

http://www.amazon.com/Weighmax-Electronic-Kitchen-Scale-2810-2KG/dp/B000P1PJL4/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1406844586&sr=8-4&keywords=food+scale&dpPl=1

  You can also use tools odds are you probably already have in your kitchen! Measuring cups and spoons! These tools are a healthy living and weight loss journey's BEST FRIEND!! So simple to use, chances are you use them to cook as it is! Now you just have to incorporate them into your plating before eating the food. Look at LABELS and see how much a serving is. A cup, A tablespoon? Whatever it may be, make sure you have your measuring cups and spoons handy!

   The link below is a SUPER nifty tool you could check out that makes measuring EASY!

http://www.amazon.com/Meal-Measure-Portion-Control-Tool/dp/B004Z0SDXC/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1406845184&sr=8-1&keywords=portion+control&dpPl=1

   For those of you who know that you WILL NOT measure your food with a food scale or measuring spoons and cups, wether too time consuming or just not wanting to, that is ok. Key here is to KNOW what a portion looks like. It will be a little harder and a bit less accurate measuring by sight and guessing how much is on your plate BUT it can be done and it is better than not trying to portion out at all!

   I found this awesome guide on portioning that I just love because it makes it easy to measure your food without actually having to bust out your kitchen scale! lol

http://www.pinterest.com/pin/277112183296306946/

Portion control is super important to healthy living and weight loss! It helps create healthy habits by showing you how much of something your body actually needs versus how much we want! Which can be very different! It helps us from over eating and under eating which can both be very dangerous. Many people ask me how I lost 140 pounds. Although, hard to reduce to just a few things, I always mention, clean eating, portion control and exercise. I directly contribute a big portion of my weight loss to portion control and even more MAINTAINING my weight loss which is equally as important! 

I really hope this helps!!

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Love you for reading,

FATFREEVEE!

(Fatfreevee in June of 2014)