Portion Control Healthy Eating

Healthy Eating Portion Control Weight

today we're going to write about portion control cuz it's really hard to figure out how to set up a plate I like to use my hands on the clock well we want about two cups of vegetables on our plates that would be 1/5 for 1 cup and the second fist for the second cup when we put the starchy thing on there you know your rice or potato your corn be just need one physical or one cup of food and then when it comes to the protein part of the meat the chicken or fish you're looking at about four fingers cuz each finger roughly is about the size of an ounce of meat they can think of your four fingers or the palm of your hand is about the same size or if you want to we can think of the deck of cards

Portion Control Healthy Eating

at the appropriate size of meat chicken or fish on your plate so I mentioned earlier that I always use a clock to cuz I like to set up my plate thinking of it as a clock face here from 12 to 3 by four fingers of me chicken or fish whatever you prefer from 3 to 6 at that one fistful or one cup of starchy food and then from 12 to 6 on the other side you have your two cups of vegetable so what does this look like when we actually set up the plate here it is yours your clock face all dressed up with food so you have this beautiful 2 cups of vegetables hear your four fingers or your car is worth of meat chicken or fish and down here your one cup of starchy food when you get all that on a plate you have only about 400 calories it's really nutritious and really filling the mindful though the added a lot of extra butter or sour cream or fried all that food you could double or triple the calories on that plate and kind of blow the whole thing with portion control so remember the clock face and your hands and you can set up a really healthy plate and now you've just learned some really Basics on portion control