I thought this link was great... I needed to be reminded of portion sizes. After looking at it I really need to break out the food scale and other measuring tools. It a little slide show

http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/por...511AB4&slide=7

Yep! I wouldn't be without my tools! Measuring cups, measuring spoons, and a scale. And once you get used to what the proper portion of a food looks like, it's easier to estimate in a restaurant also!

Jay

Cheese is one of my big 'watch it' foods. I found two different bagged blends with slightly lower fat contents than the regular block cheese we buy. It's almost impossible to cut an ounce, or even half on ounce (what I use on a wrap). When I measure out the grated cheese onto the scale I can put back what I don't need. Once it's cut, you just know I'm going to eat it.

It's a real shocker isn't it? I can't believe what I used to think a proper dinner-sized portion of pasta was. Truly comical! I bought a bunch of sets of cup, spoons, and a food scale. I measure and weigh everything, becasue otherwise I'd give myself way too much of everything!

That is quite an interesting website. I ordered their book from the library. Not that I need to read another diet book, but ya never know what might be useful....

No way could I portion control, I'd be starving LOL Breakfast for me is 4 jumbo eggs and 5 strips of bacon.

I subscribe to many magazines, & a few years ago, SELF had a "cut-out" portion control goody. They were those cut-out things like paper dolls clothes...remember those?... anyway, I had a deck of cards (for meat) a half baseball, a couple of dominoes, a stamp (pat of butter!) and couple of other ones (can't remember them all now... figures!) I had them laminated, & I carried them with me EVERYWHERE. Pretty soon, it was embedded in my brain what a "serving size" really is. It did help me with portion control. Maybe it's time to return to that!

After reading that link, I think maybe I should find those cut-outs!

Check out this "portion distortion" interactive quiz!

http://arthritis.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?zi=1/XJ&sdn=arthritis&cdn=health&tm=48&gps=130_2543_786 _437&f=10&su=p726.2.152.ip_p284.8.150.ip_&tt=7&bt= 0&bts=0&zu=http%3A//hp2010.nhlbihin.net/portion/portion.cgi%3Faction%3Dquestion%26number%3D1

the cut out things sound cool! it would be cool to be able to finds oemthing like that !

Thanks for the link, but I don't buy some of their answers.
For example, it states the following:

If you walk leisurely for 1 hour and 10 minutes, you will burn approximately 400 calories.*

That is not true. You burn a LOT less by walking. If you burned 400 calories, I would be a stick person by now.

Yeah, it's more like 150 cals or less.

Jay