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How did you learn portion control?
Plain and simple -
Calorie counting. For me, it could be nothing else. I've got a calorie budget that I adhere to - IT tells me how much I should be eating. Each meal has a pre-determined amount of calories in it. I take that much food on my plate and that's that. I break down my breakfasts, lunches, dinners and snacks to equal that of my calorie budget.
Your 2100 calorie diet may look something like this:
Breakfast - 400 calories
Lunch - 500 calories
Dinner - 600 calories
Snacks - either 3 of them at 200 calories each or some other way that you prefer to divide them up.
For me, calorie counting is automatic, built in accountability and portion control.
The great thing is, that you will eventually find a few breakfasts that add up to 400 calories, several lunches that will add up to 500 calories, a bunch of different dinners that add up to 600 calories and multiple snacks that add up to 200 calories - or whatever your breakdown turns out to be. When you get that down pat, you will just interchange them, switch them around and all the counting will have already been done for you.