Serving/Portion Sizes - The Good, the Bad, and the Ridiculous

Nasty, evil serving sizes. Gacve me a horrible Good-God-Surely-I'll-Get-Fat moment last week; I weighed my average bowl of cereal for breakfast and it came in at 60g... Twice the reccomended portion size...

Add that to the fact I also tend to eat an apple, toast, any stray biscuits lying around, and drink at least two cups of tea....

Well. It all turns out to be a pretty calorific breakfast.

(... This still doesn't explained why I've stayed stubbornly under 100lbs at 5'6" for over two years -.-)

You're a wee wafer thin, darlink! But then again, I'm 5'7ish and less than 100, so "Glass Houses" an' all that..

Sometimes being skinny can suck.

I've got bad blood circulation on top of that and (as you might already know) bad blood circulation + low percentage of body fat = freezing All. The. Time. (as I type this my hands are blue; our central heating has decided to die! ) As long as you eat enough, I don't see why people should be so antagonistic towards your figure :s The amount of times I've hear 'You're so skinny' is maddening.

Yes. I know. I'm just stuck like this! :P

And 5'7"? :O My dream height! I've been willing myself for ages to just grow another inch... but alas, thus far attempts have been futile!

Will go and make a double-sized reccomendation of pasta now. Honestly. 75g per person? Who are they kidding... *mutters*

Problem is... I'm a dude I should be BEEFCAAKE!

Anyway, a work colleague just commented that he read that those big bags of Kettle Chips you get?



A "serving" of those is 9 crisps. NINE! (30g). A regular sized bag comes in at 40g, meaning it contains one and a quarter regular servings - one and a quarter, what the eff.

Soup is awful as well. Who the hell has half a tin of soup

You won't starve, you just think you will. But then, I'm the person who uses a calculator in the supermarket to work out calorie contents per day (680 for today if you're so interested.)

I do actually A whole tin seems way too much! Do you eat a whole tin of beans too? My brother does :P




Wtf aren't you starving eating so little?

I actually normally follow the serving guides; I half everything and measure everything. Even the other day I had to get the scales out to measure something like '100g' of frozen chips, because that's the amount it listed on the packet.

You won't starve, you just think you will. But then, I'm the person who uses a calculator in the supermarket to work out calorie contents per day (680 for today if you're so interested.)

Oh, and if people want crisps, they sell some in Marks and Spencers at only 89 calories a packet.

I do actually A whole tin seems way too much! Do you eat a whole tin of beans too? My brother does :P




Wtf aren't you starving eating so little?

You're a wee wafer thin, darlink! But then again, I'm 5'7ish and less than 100, so "Glass Houses" an' all that..

I do actually A whole tin seems way too much! Do you eat a whole tin of beans too? My brother does :P

100lbs? I'm 112lbs and I'm 5ft2... feeling a bit fat now lol, although I still get the whole "oh you're so skinny.... thing" weirdly enough



I did for lunch with fish fingers (recommended serving size of two fish fingers... I think not. I had four). Yummy!

God, that's not fat in any capacity, I'm actually recovering from an ED so I'm the one that's outwith normality here!!

And as for two fish fingers for an adult portion, who the hell has TWO fish fingers?! It's the same as Tesco's southern chicken dippers (probably the same as the big name brand), but it states 130 cal for a portion, but a portion is 2 chicken dippers. Yeah. Yeah, THAT's happening

And you know how we always go on about Tesco Value chocolate bars?



The 100g ones? It states between 135 and 155 calories (depending on variety) per serving. A "serving" is 25g - four little squares. Those bars apparently have four servings worth. I know it's common sense that chocolate is evil, but still... those bars look so... innocent.