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Many people assume that Nutrisystem wants you to eat their foods for the rest of your life. That simply isn’t true. Nutrisystem wants to teach you how to make healthy choices so that you are successful long term.

One area I struggle with is proper portion sizes. The Nutrisystem website has several helpful articles on this subject. I recently read the post titled Become A Nutrisystem Portion Pro. While reading this, I learned that eating nutritious foods is important, but eating the right amounts of those nutritious foods is equally as important.

When I am at home, I can use a food scale and/or measuring cups to measure out the correct portions of foods. When I am out and about, I need another way to estimate my portion sizes. The article taught me a few tricks on how to visualize the proper portion sizes. For example:

Three ounces of white fish is approximately the same size as a flat check book.
Two ounces of meat, poultry, and fatty fish is a bit smaller than a deck of cards.
You can estimate one ounce of cheese, by visualizing three dice.
One cup of milk or yogurt is about the same size as a baseball.
Nuts and nut butters usually have a portion size of one or two tablespoons. One tablespoon is similar in size to a poker chip.
Fresh fruits usually have a portion size of one cup. This can be compared to a small clinched fist. If you need a half cup portion, visualize a computer mouse.

Aren’t these helpful?! Do you have any tricks to eating a proper portion size?

My progress this week- I lost one pound and 1 inch. This brings my grand total to 25 pounds and 46.5 inches lost!

Non-scale victories- I finally took the plunge! I tried on a pair of jeans in a smaller size. They fit comfortably! Yahoo, time to go shopping!

Are you interested in learning more about Nutrisystem? Please visit the Nutrisystem website to see the great selection of products and programs they have to offer.

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Laurie

Hello, my name is Laurie. My family and I live near the Oregon coast. When we aren’t at work, in school, or on the volleyball court, we enjoy traveling, cheering for our favorite sports teams, playing outdoors, and checking off items on our bucket list. We are lucky in that both sets of our parents, as well as our siblings and their families, live within an hour of us. We get together often to help one another out, celebrate milestones, and go on adventures together.

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