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The Portion Teller: Smartsize Your Way to Permanent Weight Loss | 
 enlarge | Author: Lisa R. Young
Publisher: Broadway
Category: Book
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Rating:  25 reviews
Sales Rank: 219724
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1
Pages: 272
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.1
Dimensions (in): 9.4 x 6.1 x 1
ISBN: 0767920686
Dewey Decimal Number: 613.25
EAN: 9780767920681
ASIN: 0767920686
Publication Date: May 31, 2005
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Product Description
Would you ever consider going to the kitchen in the morning and grabbing five slices of bread for breakfast? No? Just one bagel or perhaps a bran muffin is more like it, right? Well, think again. Your morning bagel or muffin is probably equivalent to eating five slices of bread, maybe more. That’s most of your grain servings for the day.
And, that steak you ate last night? For all the calories and protein you consumed, you might as well have eaten 18 eggs. More than double the amount of protein you need in a day.
Surprised at just how much you are eating? Dr. Lisa Young isn’t. She has been studying how Americans eat for more than a decade, and what she found is astonishing. Portion sizes have subtly and steadily increased over the past thirty years and are now two to five times larger than they were in the past. Even the average dinner plate has grown several inches to accommodate more food. The portions we’re served are getting bigger and we keep eating. The end result? That’s right. Americans are getting fatter.
So what should you do about it? You may think that counting calories, fat grams, or even eliminating entire food groups such as grains is the way to keep this trend toward colossal cuisine from making you fat. The problem is, you don’t know how many calories, fat, and carbs are in your favorite foods. No one does, not even the experts. When nutritionists were shown several restaurant meals in a survey, not one person was able to accurately guess the calorie or fat content of the meals.
In The Portion Teller, you’ll develop portion-size awareness and learn how to lose weight without weighing food or counting calories. Using simple visuals such as a deck of cards, a yo-yo, a baseball, and even your own hand, you’ll find out what a serving size is supposed to look like and how many servings you can eat per day from each food group. The visuals are easy to use: If your piece of salmon at dinner is about the size of three decks of cards, you’ve eaten all your meat and fish servings for the day.
The plan is easy. You’ll keep a food diary for a short time to get you started. Once you learn how to size-up your favorite foods with the visuals, Lisa’s Portion Personalities show you how stumbling blocks can be easily overcome. Are you a See Food Eater who can’t stop yourself at the sight of food or a Special Occasion Victim who can’t resist that cake at an office party or a Volume Eater who always wants her plate to be full? As a long-time nutrition counselor, Young gives real-world solutions for tackling your bad habits. There’s a cheater’s guide, for those who must satisfy that late-night chocolate craving, as well as a survival guide for eating out and daily meal plans.
No forbidden foods, no calorie counting, no food weighing. The Portion Teller isn’t a diet—it’s a sensible eating plan and the end of diet deprivation. Welcome to diet liberation.
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 Finally! May 11, 2008
S. Bruce (San Diego, CA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
After reading and implementing the Portion Teller into my life - I've lost the weight that has been so hard for me to get off. It's a very easy lifestyle change for the better - it's been the only plan that has worked for me.
Common sense! November 9, 2006
Mary D.
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
This is a get-real "diet" book. Educate yourself and face the sometimes difficult truth that most of us eat more than we think we eat. Thanks to Dr Young for opening some eyes on this score. It's not a gimmick. This is information anyone can use to eat and live well. Do yourself a favor, read this book.
I'm losing.... November 1, 2006
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9 out of 9 found this review helpful
I've always brought diet books that left me confused not even half way through or bored. This book here has helped to see how much food I was actually eating. It doesn't matter if you low carbing it or not...we just eat too damn much. So far on this diet only been on it for 4 weeks and have lost 11 pounds! I have incorporated fitness activity 3-4x a week as well has found a weightloss support group along the way.
loved it July 12, 2006
Hop-Reader
I usually shy away from diet-type books. After all, how great can any ONE be when there are thousands coming out every year??? But I loved the idea of being able to eat whatever I want, just by looking at the sizes of my portions. This book is a great primer to the idea that it's not WHAT you eat as much as it is how MUCH you eat.
Young offers terrific real-world equivalents to help you get your chops around how many servings are in that Extra Value Meal. I am still a bit confused, though -- wish she had some additional info on how to really determine how much you need to eat, and some more translations of real menus into portion sizes. I would also love to see more success stories (love those before-and-afters!). All in all, I highly recommend this book. I checked it out from the library, but ended up marking so many pages to take notes from that I finally broke down and bought my own copy.
Smartsizing really works! July 8, 2006
S. Axelrod
10 out of 10 found this review helpful
Portion sizes are a major problem for most of us. The Portion Teller is a roadmap for sensible eating. Highly recommended for those who are overweight, as well as those of us who want to stay trim.
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