Portion Sizes

Did you know that a cereal bowl will actually hold almost 3 servings of Special K?  It will.  When my weight loss is going well I measure everything.  Lately, I haven't been.  As I filled my cereal bowl I realized I was actually getting a lot more than when I measure it out, so I decided to measure exactly how much more I was getting.  It turned out I was getting A LOT more.  In fact, I was getting almost three times more.  Wow!  Plus, because I'm not measuring my milk, I'm getting more milk, and I usually refill my bowl with enough cereal to use up all of my milk, too.  Who wants to waste milk, right? 

Serving sizes are all bigger now than they used to be.  That's true in restaurants as well as fast food places.  It's no wonder Americans are such chunk-a-monks.  We be hungry!!  Plus, if they give us all that food it would be rude not to eat it all.

The excuses we give ourselves for why we do things is amazing to me.  One of my favorites is how Marilyn Monroe was a size 14, so big women have always been sexy.  HELLO!!  Sizes have changed over the years.  A size 14 in her day would be closer to a size 7 today.  She was far from being a "big" woman.  She was curvy, yes, but she wasn't big. 

That's what I want to be...a curvy size 7 or 10.  I would definitely be happy a curvy size 10.

Maybe I should try out for the Biggest Loser on NBC.  Having a trainer push me and a $250,000 prize dangled in front of me might be the motivation I need to finally achieve my goals.  Hmmm...