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flyawayana
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Posted: 22 June 2005 03:27 pm |
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alright, we all know, portions sizes are CRAAAZY. here are some comparisons/ equivilants ya can use to make it that much easyier to make sure you arent getting too many calories/ fat/ etc in your daily diet......
3 oz beef,chicken, fish... meat in general.... = a deck of playing cards
1 cup pasta = (dry) the diameter of a quater, (cooked) a baseball or what goes in the palm of your hand.
1 cup cereal = the baseball or palm of your hand agian.
1/2 cup potato, veggie, fruit = haf a baseball, or, since 1/2 cup is the same as 4 oz, it could also be the same as a deck of playing cards with just a bit more added to it.
bagel or muffin = a large yoyo (none of these huge, takes both hands to hold spunkenmeier muffins... those are insaine huge)
1 oz cheese = 2 dominos
soups/ chilis etc = put your hands, plams together, kind of rounded though, then open then just until the pinky fingers close the hole between them. that "bowl" looking thing you made with your hands is about the size of a portion. (i just get out a 1 cup measure and do that, so much easyer to eyeball it from that, i think)
an extra bit...... when you look at your plate, divide it up into 1/4 sections.
1/4 should be a grain of sorts, preferably whole grain something.
1/4 should be a beef or chicken or other meat. or for the other veggitartians out there... some form of protein be that legume or tofu
then the remaining 1/2 should be veggitables.
when i say this, im talking about a normal, er, smaller sized, plate. not these huge plates they are making now.
fly
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Posted: 16 December 2005 10:16 am |
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Oh man, more people really need to know this. I dont mean here, but just, any and all people. It makes me ill to see people with a FULL plate. Ahhh well.
Sorry. Can we teach this stuff in school?
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flyawayana
Senior Member
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Posted: 16 December 2005 06:02 pm |
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hey, glad to see someone agrees with me!
yeah, it is sickening to see people - how much, and what they eat....
and yeah, teaching healthy lifestyles would be good in schools, except im pretty sure nothing has changed since i graduated - the books say, here this is the hleathy way, and then......... well, we all remember vending machine contents, and the smell alone of cafiteria food.
fly
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Peter
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Posted: 16 December 2005 07:03 pm |
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Here a newsletter on controlling portion size:
http://www.caloriesperhour.com/news_050601.html
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Bilo
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Posted: 16 December 2005 07:36 pm |
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Great post. Since I started counter calories I'm amazed at how much I was eating before. I think sometimes I was getting my daily calories in one meal!
~Bilo
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fsahurie
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Posted: 17 December 2005 01:27 am |
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flyawayana wrote:
1 cup cereal = the baseball or palm of your hand agian.
I have to disagree with you on that one, I measured the cereal on the palm of my hand and it doesnt even make half of a cup of cereal!I think common sense says that 1 cup of cereal IS exactly a cup of cereal. not a baseball, or whatever other people say, dont you agree?
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wm
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Posted: 17 December 2005 03:02 am |
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 fsahurrie, I'm not coming to your house for dinner if you're gonna get out the measuring cups to measure every portion!
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fsahurie
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Posted: 17 December 2005 03:33 am |
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Administrator,
wm is breaking rule #4, please do something about this, look below as well:
http://www.caloriesperhour.com/forums/forum19/757.html
I thought this place was for people to respect other peoples opinions and not harrass other members with insulting and obnoxious posts!
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flyawayana
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Posted: 17 December 2005 04:00 am |
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fsahurie: now that you mention it, that is a weird way that i worded that - i meant like, your hand, a fist i guess, equals a cup. i dont know. that one i actually read somewhere - its not from me actually using it. just thought a visual would be of use to some one out there......
well obvisouly the visual sucks if i dont even give a good comparison.ha
(and hey wm, whats wrong with measuring, lol)
fly
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fsahurie
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Posted: 17 December 2005 04:05 am |
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flyawayana wrote: i meant like, your hand, a fist i guess, equals a cup.
fly
Now that makes a lot more sense, sorry I didnt understand you before, its all good!
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Peter
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Posted: 17 December 2005 04:20 am |
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fsahurie, I don't want to police things that much. I'm not sure what wm was getting at, but I didn't see anything blatantly rude. Well, maybe the post you link to was.
Certainly if I banned people that used foul language flyawayana would long be gone. My filter fixes most of her posts; I have to edit the others. Never did understand why people felt such language was necessary. It's certainly not flattering.
But before you edited your posts to me they were certainly much ruder than wm's. And I know you thought I was being rude to you, but I didn't mean to be.
I was trying to make an important point. I don't think a diet based on eating so much junk food will help you, so I don't want to be supportive of it.
Also in your post -- before you edited it -- you said it worked great because you went from 93 to 77 kg or something like that. But the topic of your post was that you were stuck at 85 kg... which just makes my point about that type of diet. It can't last.
I think I'm being candid in saying that I don't support it, but not rude.
People posting is such forums are full of emotions, stress, frustrations... there has to be some room for expressing oneself. Forums are all about personal opinions... differing personal opinions.
I think to some extent we need to just roll with it. That's why I'm not very quick to ban members or even edit or delete their posts.
Peter
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fsahurie
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Posted: 17 December 2005 04:30 am |
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Peter wrote: fsahurie, I don't want to police things that much. I'm not sure what wm was getting at, but I didn't see anything blatantly rude. Well, maybe the post you link to was.
Certainly if I banned people that used foul language flyawayana would long be gone. My filter fixes most of her posts; I have to edit the others. Never did understand why people felt such language was necessary. It's certainly not flattering.
But before you edited your posts to me they were certainly much ruder than wm's. And I know you thought I was being rude to you, but I didn't mean to be.
I was trying to make an important point. I don't think a diet based on eating so much junk food will help you, so I don't want to be supportive it.
Also in your post -- before you edited it -- you said it worked great because you went from 93 to 77 kg or something like that. But the topic of your post was that you were stuck at 85 kg... which just makes my point about that type of diet. It can't last.
I think I'm being candid in saying that I don't support it, but not rude.
People posting is such forums are full of emotions, stress, frustrations... there has to be some room for expressing oneself. Forums are all about personal opinions... differing personal opinions.
I think to some extent we need to just roll with it. That's why I'm not very quick to ban members or even edit or delete their posts.
Peter
I definetely agree with you, thanks for the explanation.
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flyawayana
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Posted: 17 December 2005 08:15 pm |
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Peter
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Posted: 17 December 2005 08:27 pm |
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jthornton202222
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Posted: 13 January 2006 03:42 am |
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One thing I have found really helpful in my portions -- is the Portion Plate. It came with a diet plan (that I never really followed), but I really did lose weight when I used it with the regular food my family ate. It comes with one portion for protein (3 oz.), two 1/2 cup portions and one large 1 cup portion. I try and use the one cup portion for vegetables only, and use the other portions with the "not so diet-friendly" portions my family eats. For example, if I make a Mexican casserole that I love, I only allow myself the 1/2 cup portion (or if I don't have another protein, I fill the 1/3 cup protein with it as well). I use the rest for vegetables. I have done really well doing that -- I'm not depriving myself of the "fun" stuff my family eats, but just smaller portions of it. I recently ordered ANOTHER portion plate (just the plate only), because mine had some wear and tear -- and I wanted an extra so when one was dirty, one was clean. They are great. I think the website is portionplate.com. You might want to check out at least getting the plate (I'm sure you could get a comparable plate or a divided plate that does the same at Walmart, but if not, this one is great!) I had the actual recipes that go with it, but realized that the recipes they supplied were about the same type that I made for my family (not real diet friendly, but the "key" was you were getting less portions). That's why I use it like I do.
Hope this helps!
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