10 Ways to Lose 5 Pounds: Control Portion Sizes

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Control Portion Sizes

It's not practical or realistic to weigh and measure everything you eat. So pick one day a week to pull out the scale and measuring cups and spoons to see if you're getting the proper portions.

"Our eyes grow with time," says diabetes educator Hope Warshaw. "It's easy to rationalize: But it's just a little more." To fine-tune your skills to eat proper portions, keep essential weighing and measuring tools on the countertop -- a food scale that accurately weighs meats, fruits, and starches; measuring cups for starches, vegetables, and dairy items; and measuring spoons for fats, oils, salad dressings, and more.

Check out our visual guide to serving sizes.

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Even though I am aware of the different ways to live a healthy life, certain things are sometimes forgotten. This article was a great reminder! For those of you who don't want to carry a food journal around with you all day everyday but have a blackberry, use the MemoPad app and store what you eat daily in there. That's what I do!

1/13/2010 12:18:39 PM Report Abuse

jeffandlorrie2 wrote:

Thanks for such a great article, I found it to be very helpful! Thank you

1/6/2010 11:10:30 AM Report Abuse

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