To think my portion was too large (photo)?

[Ribrabrob]

I’m living a bit ‘on the road’ at the moment (essential) and relying on eating out - trying to be as healthy as I can as I’m trying (!) to lose weight.

I have attached a photo of tonight’s evening meal, my only meal of the day plus a few snacks. My photo isn’t the best unfortunately but it was a bowl of spicy rice and a bowl of bean stew/soup (I’m vegetarian).

Aibu to think I had too much? Would you have eaten all of it? Unfortunately through years of dieting and binge eating I have lost sight of what a normal portion of food is and how ‘normal’ people eat.

Ps i appreciate it doesn’t look very nice but it was actually quite tasty!

[quote Foodiefoodieyemek]@SchrodingersImmigrant bloody lovely isn't it [/quote]
Damn it! My DH really likes the çiğ köfte, I have mixed feelings. It's so tasty, but there is something about consistency I am not 100% on. We are more "deeper" into ME when we cook.

Too much in one sitting!

It doesn't matter if its the only meal in one day, I couldn't physically eat all of that in one sitting.

@Foodiefoodieyemek bit away from the thread topic, but how is your place preparing for tomorrow? Must be extremely busy and with the social distancing it must be hard!

I genuinely wonder what other folks eat if they think that looks delicious.

I suppose if you enjoy the taste of food that looks like that you will think it looks delicious.

It's a cereal bowl not a huge dinner plate

You can use the cutlery for scale, it’s a large plate of rice and is indeed about four recommended portions.

I think the op saying cereal bowl threw everyone, but the cutlery indicates they are large plates and what food place serves meals in cutlery bowls?

Sorry cereal bowls.

It's not that easy to use the cutlery for scale, really, you can just about see a few fork prongs (tines?). I think op angled the photo the way she did quite deliberately.

I don't actually understand why you think we'll be able to judge this or really why you care? Do you feel full? Are you putting on weight/losing weight? Lol people will ask Mumsnet anything

There's no proper answer to this really.

If you're eating one meal a day, obviously that needs to be breakfast + lunch + dinner all in one. So it will look large. If it looked like a normal meal, say lunch, you would end up losing weight fast.

You don't say what your snacks are or your intake for the rest of the day, so it's actually impossible for anyone to say whether that meal is too large or too small.

That quack linked above who claims a "portion" of carbs should be pathetically small goes on to say "and you should have 4-6 "portions" a day". Most of us have three meals a day, some have fewer. So that "portion" size claim is utterly unhelpful and muddying the waters.

Also, the photo is indeed very unhelpful, but the plate looks like a side plate to me, not a dinner plate.

I mean it is a big portion I would say but if you aren’t eating 3 meals a day and are just having that then a few meals then i wouldn’t say it was bad. It’s all healthy stuff.

Its a humongous portion, especially the rice

Some people are never happy.. if it was too much get the rest to take away... And next time order a small portion.

Maybe ask the place your eating in if you can take the leftovers home? As it's already paid for it cant see that being a problem. Hope you are ok tho and the 1 meal a day is out of choice and not for any other reason.

@gerim

Maybe ask the place your eating in if you can take the leftovers home? As it's already paid for it cant see that being a problem. Hope you are ok tho and the 1 meal a day is out of choice and not for any other reason.

Have buffets ever allowed take home?

It is normal size especially if this is the only meal it looks normal to me. If you see the size of my meals 😂

It's a huge amount. Probably enough for 3 people...

Yes I’d say too much rice. Mist of us eat too much I think.

@Mmpip

It's a huge amount. Probably enough for 3 people...

🤣

Im veggie too. I couldnt eat that much but portion depends on age activity weight height ect Looks more like 2-3 meals to me.

Everyone must be really busy eating their HUGE salads and absolutely ginormous bowls of lentil soup

Ffs these threads get more and more ridiculous. Has anyone said they can feed a family of 4 for a week on that portion yet?!?

2-3 meals 😂😂😂

These are two cereal bowls. Bit worried about the fact some people say all that food makes them sick! Ooo err! All WHAT food?
grow up.Ffs
That looks fine if you have had little all day but slightly too much rice. You should maybe have 4 heaped tablespoons of rice.