Dieting: Staying Within Minimum Serving Sizes and Portions

Dieting can be one of the hardest things you may ever undertake. For most people, the trick to loosing weight may not be just eating right, but also eating the right amount.

Cutting back on what you eat and regulating your overall food intake can be a challenge. One of the best ways to do this is to eliminate “seconds”. If that is not enough then try using a salad plate as your dinner plate. This will restrict the amount that you eat and keep you within minimum serving sizes. The salad plate works well for casseroles, and one-pan meals. It also works for spaghetti and of course, salad.

However, man does not live on casseroles alone. You need another way to see how much is too much. One way is to use a food scale. Measure everything according to the recommended minimums. This takes time, and effort and you don’t always have a food scale handy. In fact, most people don’t even own a food scale.

An alternate way to measure servings is to visualize everyday household items and relate them to your food. For instance: