Portion sizes help please

[SunshyneRN 4]

I made the ricotta bake, eggplant lasagna, and cheese cauliflower from the egghead website and they are ALL delicious.

But how much is a portion size? Should I just eat 1-2 ounces by weight of anything? How can u figure the Protein, calories ... to keep track of?

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[OutsideMatchInside 10,166]

I use an app called loseit, I have a premium account. You can make recipes and set the servings and it does all the math for you.

Other than that you can do it all by hand or in excel.

What does your program say your portions should be at this point? It should give you an ounce goal

[becomingmandikaye 262]

My Fitness Pal will also let you enter recipes and set serving size. When I make something, I determine how many servings it is by how many quarter cups I can fill.

[It's Time 178]

SunshynrRN my suggestion is to enter each recipe into my fitness pal, that way you can exactly tract the calorie/protein etc....when I made the ricotta bake I placed it into a muffin tin that way it was portioned as exact as I could get it...hope that helps

[LipstickLady 25,682]

I weighed and measured everything. It's amazing how quickly an ounce can grow to two when you eyeball it.

[SunshyneRN 4]

Thank u so much

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[OutsideMatchInside 10,166]

And if you don't have a scale get one. Weight is far more accurate than volume measurements. If I didn't weigh my food I could easily eat an extra few hundred in calories using volume measurements

[becomingmandikaye 262]

And if you don't have a scale get one. Weight is far more accurate than volume measurements. If I didn't weigh my food I could easily eat an extra few hundred in calories using volume measurements

Unless you're at a point in your plan where it is specified 2oz by volume not weight (which is where I am).

[chycky 671]

Weigh weigh weigh it.