Portion Amounts & Serving Sizes are hot topics in weight loss, nutrition, and foodies. What’s the difference?
A serving is the recommended amount/size of food that the My Pyramid & American Dietitic Association set forth for us.
A Portion is the actual amount on our plate. Typically restaurants will over serve, and you may be consuming 2-3x the amount of food you may actually need.
How can you tell what a portion looks like? Look below at some guidelines.
2-3 oz of meat = the size of a deck of cards
1 Baked Potato = the size of a computer mouse
1 Pancake = 1 CD
1 piece of fruit (Apple, Organge) = A woman’s fist
3 oz serving of Fish = Check Book
Important to Keep in Mind!!! If you look at the Nutrition Label on the back of your Food, it will tell you HOW MANY SERVINGS are in that package of food. Use this a guide for portion sizes.
Example: Cheese
If you bought a block of cheese, you will most likely see that it has 8 servings in that block. If you were to divide the block into 8 equal slices, one of those slices will equal 1 serving.
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