One of the biggest weight-loss challenges is to properly calculate out how much you’re eating when having a meal or a snack. But this is not an easy task. Take Restaurant meal sizes. They typically dish out meals with double and triple serving sizes and so people over-eat easily. If a normal dinner at home would feed you 550 calories, the “same” dinner in a restaurant can easily add up to over 1,000 calories. How about serving sizes in general? Food manufacturers sell mega packages of snack foods at discount prices. It’s so easy to open the family size bag of chips and eat and eat. It has become very difficult to determine a healthy portion of food. When was the last time you ate only half a meal at a restaurant?
One part of the problem is labeling. Look at the serving size numbers. They only refer to that specific food product, but who really determines what is a serving size? Veggie Chips from Whole Foods show 28 Chips as a serving size, but how does that really blend into other serving sizes. Manufacturers break down normal serving sizes into portions convenient for the labeling. 28 small Chips is nothing when snacking. One chocolate cookie is not a serving size – it’s a unit size on a label. Instead of working with serving sizes one would have to measure actual weight and then compare. Take 100g of chocolate cookies and now compare the different products from different manufacturers. At that point it would be easy to determine which chocolate cookie has more calories.
Of course the food industry does not like that, because that would cut into their sales volume quite a bit. If the consumer would really know how calories match food volumes and portions, the eating behavior could easily be changed. But the bigger a portion of food, the easier to over-eat and to over-consume calories. In that moment it does not matter what you count – your numbers will be off and the pounds will come on.
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