How do you measure food to ensure you are eating the right serving size and amount of calories?!
Answers: I use www.calorieking.com as a resource to determine how many calories are in what I eat (if it's not on the packaging), and they sometimes refer to meet servings as ounces. For instance, a 3 oz. serving of soft-serve vanilla yogurt is about 157 calories. But if the cup doesn't have measures on it then how will I know?
Very good question, considering that everything today seems to be served in Super Size and Bladder Buster Drink size.......It's also very impractical (and you'd look like a nut doing it) to "measure/weigh" your food at a restaurant.....My method:'
When you're at home, grab both a liquid (usually glass) and a dry (usually plastic or metal) measuring cup and measure, say, a cup of cereal and pour it onto a paper towel........That's what one cup looks like......When it gets to liquid measurement, same thing applies.....that way, you can "eyeball" what amount is appropriate.....I also look at the Nutrition Facts panel on labels: take for example, a "individual" bag of pretzels......did you know that there are 110 calories per serving, but THERE ARE 3.5 SERVINGS IN THE BAG!!!! Sooooooooooooooo that little "snack" of what you THOUGHT was 110 calories just bloomed to 385 if you eat the entire bag (which is a snap to do).......Everything in moderation.......that's my motto.......
For some measurements you want to use measuring cups but when you are measuring the weight in ounces of your meat servings you want to use a scale.
I was just reading about this subject in the health magazine
half of your plate should be vegs and the other should be protein and starch in portions, and the portions of the two are the size of you palm and this should all fit in a 9" inch plate