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Portion Control

Now comes the talk about portions control. Portion controls is a very

useful tool for most people. It’s not for everyone. It has its own set of
caution that goes with it, as any nutritional plan does. It is an alternative to

counting calories and it’s extremely effective, if it’s for you. The key is

determining if it’s even something that suits your goals and lifestyle.

There is research that shows that people often underestimate the food
they are consuming. Sometimes this estimation is off by up to 30-50 percent.

There are 2 main reasons that this could be:

1. They don’t realize how calorically dense many foods can be. Yes,

they might know an overflowing plate is a sure way to pack on the
pounds. But two slices of meat lover’s pizza before bed? How bad

could that be? (Try 1,000 calories.)

2. They often misjudge portions (around two-thirds of the time, in fact).
Without a handy reference point, it’s easy to accidentally consume a

lot more calories than intended.

This book has spent much of the time teaching and explaining how to

track foods using calorie and macro measurements, which is only two (if
you will) of the three different ways to track food, but now we’re going to

talk about the other or third way of tracking food, portions.

Using portions [mostly] eliminates many of the problems associated
with the other two processes such as potentially having to weigh, or measure

in a cup the foods you’re planning to eat. Portions also pretty much

eliminates the two main reasons mentioned above. What is it, you ask?

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