Healthy Eating - Portion Control

Learn how to control your eating by setting up a plate to give you proper portions of each food group. For more health tips and recipes, visit http://www.sharp.com/nutrition/index.cfm

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[indecisivedecisive]

Great info but its more difficult when you are a grazer. There is no way i could eat all of that in one sitting. It would take me probably about an hour to get through that whole plate. Id eat the potato wait about 20 minutes then go for the veggies wait 15 minutes and then my beans (vegan so no meat for me) something like that. I get full so fast but i get hungrer sooner

[sharpwebcenter]

@indecisivedecisive Thanks for your comment. Here's a response fromour registered dietitian, Candy: "While the plate concept is helpful for people who are not grazers, what does a grazer do? Spread your healthy food choices throughout the day, making sure to cover the bases by eating 5 servings of fruits/veggies a day and getting adequate protein, whole grains and calcium-containing food..."

[sharpwebcenter]

@indecisivedecisive (continued)... "The point is to cut back on foods that are high in sugar and fat and to limit beverages that are high in sugar and to limit real fruit juice to 6 oz. a day."

Hope this helps!

[wolterpynaffit]

its kind of ironic that she's a dietitian, yet her first name is candy :) lol

[sharpwebcenter]

@wolterpynaffit Candy is the sweetest dietitian :)

[ladykikyo08]

Is it bad that I can't even eat that much. xD It looks like too much food on the plate.

[sharpwebcenter]

@ladykikyo08 There is a lot of food, but not a lot of calories: 2 cups of veggies = 80 calories. 4 oz. of salmon = 200 calories. 56 oz. of potato = 120 calories. Total calories = 400.

When we eat high volume, low calorie food, we tend to get full and consume fewer calories overall. Compare that to one blueberry muffin at Starbucks (470 calories) or a slice of Costco pizza (about 800 calories)!

Hope this helps!

[Sillilesshells]

@ladykikyo08 i can eat that much but i can't stand big plates so i go backfor seconds because i eat in quite small plates, yet when i see all the food on the plate its like eww get it away from me who would want to eat that much..i like to have little cup sizes of diferent foods so i can get lots of little tastes :)

[ladykikyo08]

@sharpwebcenter Thanks yea, I like to eat a lot of greens and fruits so I'm not that bad of an eater. I used to eat so much meat and pastas that it was really unhealthy. :D Learning more about nutrition really has helped.

[mannlaura]

Great info! I found it very helpful!!!