Potato Size
 

Please, how do you judge 1/2 a small potato? What is considered a small potato? I am used to having an ounce measurement as in WW. With them a 10 oz would be a serving. So should I count 5oz, uncooked, as a serving? This has been bothering me for some time and the folks at the center can't seem to give me a good answer or guidelines.

I think if you get the "regular" potatoes (not baking ones)-you are generally okay. Ones that are about the length of your hand? I usually figure 1/2 cup mashed. Don't stress about it-the cal range from our OP carb options is pretty wide.

I have noticed it is wide. Kind of throws me off when I am trying to behave but need something new. So 1/2 of a regular size potato is what you eat? Thanks for the information.

Sharon, Who is the beautiful baby in the picture with you?

emmysmom, Thank you! He is adorable. That is grandchild number 3. He was about 6 months old in that picture. Jackson lives in Colorado. I am in California. Mom is 5'9 and Dad is 6'5. So at 22 months old, he weighs 39#'s and looks more like a 3 year old. He is a sturdy happy little guy and I don't get to see him enough. I have two grandchildren here. Almost 14 year old grandaughter and an 11 year old grandson.

Marbear, yes that is a big boy. Jackson has a large head also. So did my son. Very hard to get pullover shirts for him. We are lucky in that our DIL is a flight attendant for United. We don't get free flights, but they get extremely cheap rates for themselves. Sometimes they drop him with us and then fly off to Vegas or somewhere for vacation. I see him about 4 times a year. Plus we drive out there at least once a year. My husband is disabled and I am fat, so we don't fly often. Only when forced. I am so hoping that when this weight is off, we can fly more.

Just butting in:0) I have a son named Jackson too!

Mary,

You are a great mother and some peopl just don't like to see you succeed at something they couldn't do right, so just let her have her little fits and hold your son in your arms and know you are giving him 110% of your best :)

Sorry you have to deal with the MIL at all :(

I love the name Jackson - really cute, Eli is too.
My GB David is also 22 months old and weighs about 33 pounds, big headed babies rule....lol
Mary - All I can say about your very :devil: MIL is thank your maker that she doesn't live closer.....I can't imagine being like that even with a stranger, let alone the mother of my grandbaby and wife of my son :?:

My son is 8, but he was and is a big header. In fact, it takes two people to take off his football helmet. Everyone laughs when they watch me and his father both pull and struggle to get thatthing off.
But I tell everyone that he his has alot of knowledge, so he needs somewhere to put it :)

Mary, your MIL sucks! What a witch. Sorry you have to put up with that. It sounds like you have a wonderful, bright well adjusted baby. My Jackson would probably be deemed with a problem by your MIL. He doesn't speak well. He jabbers. He has his own language. But he is soooo bright. You show him how to do something and he picks right up on it. He didn't walk, he ran. He is a sweet baby. BIG Head babies are great. My son didn't turn out so bad either. :D By the way, my son and DIL took Jackson Charles to Walmart on their way home from the hospital. He survived.

Mary, i have a friend who keeps her child away from other children and he is tarting kindergarted next year. I have said over and over again, he will be sick the whole first year.

Children have absolutly fascinating bodies and they heel so quickly. That's why they have a two day cold and when they give it to us, we have it for two weeks. How else can you explain kids stayign outside playing in the snow for hours and never showing a sign of being cold.