Portion Control

This week's Weight Watcher's meeting went over the one thing every person trying to change their lifestyle treads... portion control!!! Deidre, our group leader, was on a mission for us all to measure out every ounce of food.  Normally I will get the measuring cups and spoons out and be the goofball that measures even the teaspoon of milk for my coffee, but recently I have had to just "eyeball" it because of my on-the-go lifestyle with school and work. With a program such as Weight Watchers, it is crucial that you measure your food a. so that you don't eat more than you are accounting for b. so that you are getting enough and not short changing yourself.  A couple of the ladies in the group talked about the little extra they would leave in the measuring cups, we called it the “happy mound”.  One lady even confessed to using her Weight Watcher’s scale for only measuring her favorite snack… Doritos!  But what are you supposed to do when you go out to eat?  Bring your measuring cups and spoons with??  Weight Watchers has devised a way in which you can eyeball measures by using the size of your hands (which you obviously bring with you while out).  A closed fist is about one cup of fruit or pasta, a thumb is one ounce of meat or cheese, and your palm is about the size of three ounces of meat, fish, or poultry.  Portion control may be tedious and may take up time in our busy lives but those lives will last longer if we take a couple minutes to measure out what we are putting in our mouths.

oh yeah and went down  3.8 pounds this week!!! finally getting into the swing of things with the new points plus program =]