Portion Savvy

The Weight-Loss Skill:

Managing portions to stay on target with weight loss

The Challenge:
As we get comfortable following the Weight Watchers program, we tend to pay less attention to measuring portion sizes. But it’s amazing how cereal can grow in the bowl every morning! Slacking off on portion control, though it seems harmless, can significantly slow down weight-loss progress.

The PointsPlus Solution:
In this meeting, we will be reminded of how continuing to measure portions is key to consistent weight-loss success. We will learn about the many different tools that can be used to accurately portion foods and gain a renewed commitment to measuring.

For More Info:
Weight Watchers® Weekly: “Measure for Measure: The Secrets of Portion Control”—expert tips on measuring portions, and “Portion Correction”—commonly overestimated and underestimated portions and what that means in terms of PointsPlus™ values.

eTools: “Portion Primer,” http://bit.ly/AboutPortions

Program materials: Pocket Guide, pp. 84–87
 
Tool of the Week:
I attribute most of my weight loss and weight maintenance success to one tool: My food scale.
The Weight Watchers Electronic Food Scale not only weighs the foods (DUH!) but it also has many very useful functions:
Tare: You can put on your bowl, use the tare function to zero out the scale, and weigh the foods without having to substract the weight of the bowl itself.
Food bank: You can put your food on the scale, start spelling it, and it will give you the PointsPlus Value of the amount of what you've put on the scale. 400+ foods!
Add: You can calculate the PointsPlus Value of a food, then use the Add function to add one more food, find it's PointsPlus Value, then add it to the previous food to get the total of all the foods in the bowl.
Calculator: You can put in a food, enter the Proteins, Carbs, fat and fiber for a set portion, the portion size (in grams) and the scale will give you the PointsPlus value for the amount you have on there.

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"In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires." ~Benjamin Franklin