Aug 16 2013
A New Way to Keep Food Portions in Check
PortionMate Measuring Tool
Are you someone who eats healthy foods, but you simply eat too much of it? My recent blog post“Too Much of a Good Thing” talked about this very problem. I meet people all of the time who are so careful about the foods they choose, but they still have problems controlling their weight or diabetes because their portions are simply too large. Portion control is such a powerful strategy for weight or diabetes management, yet many people don’t take the time to figure out how much food is on their plate.
Here’s a new, easy tool to help you measure proper portions of meals or snacks. Its design is so streamlined and simple, yet it works incredibly well!
PortionMate™ allows you to quickly and easily measure out the perfect portion of just about any food you put on your plate. The kit has 6 different colored and sized cylinders that correspond to specific groups of foods. A handy calorie-count nutrition and meal planning guide with easy directions for using PortionMate™ comes with the kit.
Although it is not a diet plan, PortionMate™ follows the food portion recommendations of the American Diabetes Association and the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics. The large green cylinder, for example, is used for measuring vegetables, while the smallest, purple cylinder is the perfect 1 oz. size for high calorie foods such as nuts or cheese.
Using PortionMate™ routinely can provide a visual guide of how much of a specific food to put on your plate each and every time. Learning to visually size up portions is a very handy skill to have when you eat out. We all know that the portions served in many restaurants are way too large. When you know what a reasonable portion should look like, you can easily figure out how much of that restaurant food to take home in your doggie bag!
If you need to get a handle on your food portions, I think this is a great little tool to have. It’s easy to use, easy to clean, and it helps you to re-learn appropriate food portions: that’s a concept so many of us have lost site of!
To learn more about PortionMate™ visit their website at www.portionmate.com.
You can also purchase PortionMate™ at Amazon.com.
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