Measuring Your Food

[prissypotz 0]

Hello friends,

I finally got a fill on 1/28 - YAHOO! I need help figuring out my feeling of full. I haven't been measuring my food, but my nutritionist said that I need to keep it to 1/2 a cup no matter what. Does everyone measure their food? Tonight for dinner, I had 1/2 of a small Wendy's chili. Is that too much? I could have eaten the whole thing...do I need to go back and get adjusted? I'm scared to death I'm going to stretch my pouch. Please share with me your feeling of full and if you measure your food.

Please help!

[lovekatz1975 1]

I never measure my food. It depends on what I'm eating. I've learned about how much of a particular food I can eat. For instance, I can eat 3/4 of a chicken breast, 3/4 of a pork chop...

Last night I had a large wendy's chili with cheese in it. I ate 3/4 of it was was STUFFED.

[snowbird 2]

I don't measure my food. If you are concerned about it, pour a half cup of Water into a bowl to get an idea of how much that is.

Generally with my band, the band itself keeps me to a half cup or less with a meal, so I don't have to worry much about serving sizes.

[soniacan 0]

i measure alot of my food and try to stay at 1/2 a cup.

i live out of these glass one cup containers with measurements from Pampered Chef.

Also for work I put lunches and Snacks in 2 ounce containers. Everytime someone in my family buys new packs of containers I always swipe the tiny ones!

[LindaE 0]

Hi My doctor tells me to measure out 1/2 cup meals also. I dont feel hungry or full. Thats how they want me to do it. I am only suppose to eat 1200 calories a day.Any less can put you in starvation mode and loosing weight will slow down or stop.

[NanaRenan 0]

I'm trying to develop the habit of measuring out my meals. It takes a lot of the guesswork out of it and could prevent some ugly PBing! I have a stack of little plastic ramikins (my GrandDoll is a Big Dipper, they cut down on wasted catsup and ranch!), and find if I'm eating something of a more difficult sort to determine, they help me tremendously.

[Bel 1]

I dont measure my meals although every now and then i do a check. I find that you have to listen to your body. Its not about being full ... its about being content, when you dont feel hungry you are content. Go past that and your full, thats when you start stretching things. If you listen to your body you will learn how to tell your done. When you can do that you wont need to measure anymore :-)

Bel

Oh and something else i was taught that helped me so much, is that when you feel hunger pains it may not be hunger, it may be thirst because your body uses hunger pains to trigger you to drink as well as eat. So if your hungry have a glass of Water, wait 10mins and if your still hungry then you should eat

Edited March 30, 2008 by Bel

[ebonie 0]

I measure sometimes just to make sure my portions are staying were they should be. I read on this wonderful forum once that if you don't your serving sizes will creep up, scared me enough that I do it.

[luluc 6]

I get my measuring cups out about once a month - just to gauge myself on the portion sizes I'm eating. This isn't so much for me, rather my trainer who wants to see my food journal to make recommendations based off of how hard I'm working out.

Got a good feeling I know what a 1/4c , 1/2c , 1/3c, 1c looks like now.

[Turler 6]

That is a good idea. My dietician encourages using the disposable 2 and 4 oz cups with lids. Your portions will always be right and no dishes! Also, she said it keeps you from stretching the area above the band. It's good to check it like that once every few weeks if you're not measuring.

[MerryHearted 20]

I measure just because I log all my food to track my calories & nutritional intake.

I try to eat 2-3 oz of Protein and 1/2 c of veggies at each meal, and that's more than 1/2 c total, obviously. Not much though.

[aubrie 6]

Before my 1st fill doc says no more than 1 1/2 cups.

1st fill = 1 cup

2nd fill = 3/4 cup

He doesn't want me to go below 3/4 cup. In the morning and at at lunch time though, a half cup is usual for me. I'm able to eat more in the evenings.

[Hastings 3]

I always measure my food for the same reason Molly Molly said. I enter everything I eat into the program at Sparkpeople.com. I have found that my estimates are pretty subjective - especially if I'm trying to justify eating just a little more. :thumbup:

[NanaRenan 0]

Before my 1st fill doc says no more than 1 1/2 cups.

1st fill = 1 cup

2nd fill = 3/4 cup

He doesn't want me to go below 3/4 cup. In the morning and at at lunch time though, a half cup is usual for me. I'm able to eat more in the evenings.

You know, nobody ever told me that, and I didn't set those as goals, but that's about what it has worked out to be.

Guess I'm about on target! :thumbup:

Thanks for sharing that!

[jrg1979 0]

Do you measure 1/2 cup of food in terms of before chewed, or after chewed? For instance, how do you measure a sandwich in terms of volume. Does anyone have an estimate of how much (cup wise) a 6 inch sandwich from Subway would be??