ALL ABOUT PORTION SIZES

Hello beautiful people, how is everyone doing? I have been getting small views here and there and also comments which I am appreciative of. Sorry about my hiatus, I am done exams now so I would have more time to blog everyday. 

I would like to talk about portion sizes today and would also give an idea of what the portions can be compared to. It is very important to not eat too much at one time of the day. It is better to eat 5 - 6 times a day as opposed to eating 2 or 3 heavy meals. This helps to speed up you metabolism faster and also helps your body to use up all the food you take in as opposed to storing some of it as fat because of the heavy meals. 

It is also very important to drink water while having meals because you get full faster that way. Sometimes when we are so hungry we eat so much and we don't know when to stop, and this results in feeling stuffed but when you drink water and eat at the same time, you get full faster and leave your body to make use of all the food. Also, it is important not to eat fast when having a meal as that might lead to overfeeding because you are not conscious of when you need to stop eating. Below is a list of different foods with their portion sizes and also estimates that will be useful for those that are having a difficult time deciding how much to eat.

• 1 cup of pasta/spaghetti (2 ounces) ---- a fist 


• 1 cup of cereal flakes (1 ounce) ---- a fist

• 1/2 cooked cup rice ---- tennis ball

• 1/2 cup of grapes (15 grapes) ---- light bulb 


• 1/2 cup of fresh fruit ---- 7 cotton balls

• 2 tablespoons peanut butter (= 2 oz. meat) ---- ping-pong ball 


• 1 teaspoon peanut butter (= 1/3 oz. meat) ---- fingertip

• 3 ounces grilled/baked fish or chicken ---- checkbook 


• 3 ounces cooked meat, fish, poultry ---- your palm, a deck or cards or a cassette tape

• 1 ounce of nuts or small candies ---- one handful 


• 1 ounce of pretzels ---- two handfuls 


• 1/2 cup of popcorn ---- one man's handful 


• 1/3 cup of popcorn ---- one woman's handful

• 1 1/2 cups of pasta, noodles ---- dinner plate, not heaped 


• 1/2 cup of pasta, noodles ---- custard cup or mashed potato scoop

• Teaspoon butter, margarine ---- stamp, the thickness of your finger or knuckle to thumb tip 


• Tablespoons regular salad dressing ping-pong ball

• 1 pancake (1 ounce or 5") ---- compact disc (CD)

I would like to get feedback from time to time and know how anyone interested in weight loss is doing...until next time

It's not Miss Bee its Mummy...xxx

P.S: I came about that name 'its not miss bee its mummy' one night when I was skyping Nifemi and my mum told him to speak to miss bee (me) and then he corrected my mum and said 'its not miss bee its mummy' I think that would be my new signature...what do you think? nway I await your feedback...:)