Portion Sizes - with a pinch of Slimming World

[MUM23ASD]

talking of portion sizes... I have been wondering where else in my diet I 'over portion' my food.... as I have a BMI of 31... and found that since i did Slimming World (and lost 2 stone).....that I have lost all sense of PORTION size (as on that diet you can eat as much potatoes OR meat depending on what plan you choose.

-so though i lost wieght...I find that way of eating has not helped my 'binge eating -te-nd-ancies-'--

so what i- thought i'd try...is to follow the slimming world plan...but exert a bit of portion control.

So i googled portion sizes...and all i keep finding is 'matchbox size cheese'...or 'egg size potato' etc.....

which is fine cooking for 1- but i am cooking for a family... so what i'd love is to know WEIGHTS of COOKED food- so I could for example cook a load of potatoes... remove my PORTION by weight... then add butter and add milk as usual to the remainder for the family- and add only permitted ammount of semi-milk to my bit.

It's like rice- they tell you dry wight- but would like cooked weight- not handfuls or cup fuls...as they can vary....i want to know exact weights!!!

I'm no good at calorie counting- but happy to weigh everything i eat- if it a) highlights how distorted my portion sizes are.... and enables me to LOSE WEIGHT eating WITH my family.

I'm crap at portion size too (esp pasta)

There is a plate you can buy that has portions drawn on it? Not sure that would help when you are coooking for a family though?

Portion size is definitely my downfall - I got a shock when I weighed out a 30g serving of cereal - is tiny!

With rice I tend to buy bags of frozen rice that just need to be microwaved as they are ready portioned or DH would eat a whole 500g bag without thinking about it!

maybe you could try this

hmmmm....BMI actually 33.5

Can't you just work out roughly what your requirements are and weigh food according to its calorie content?

I just looked at my rice packet it says 75g dry weight (1 portion) is about 135g cooked.

Or what about using a smaller size dinner plate, filling it with 1/3 veggies, 1/3 protein and 1/3 carbs? can't go wrong with that.

yes...that occured to me this afternoon!

weighed pile of raw potatoes

weighed cooked potatoes/plus 'diet' healthier ammount of 'butter' plus semi skimmed milk- mashed

for fun weighed what I'D NORMALLY HAVE... 300g!!! Then what 'one good sized spoonful ' weighed.... 200g.

so next time- no weighing needed- will just serve myself' one good sized spoonful'...and know it's approx 200g... which for now being a third of what i'd normally have IS a reduction.....

I also went to asda and stocked up on a load of those 'frozen veg in-a-bag' that micro in 3 mins... as i love them and each bag supposedly counts as 2 of the 5-a-day we are meant to have.
I find then i eat more veg as i love those bags and can have them easily with every evening meal....or even at lunch with cold chicken.

so...DAY ONE....have reduced most of my 'portions' by a third.....