While the last post spoke of how much a portion is this one will show you to how many portions you'll need daily and for your age group. The information is legit and is easily incorporated into all prior information that's been posted on the blog thus far.
Notice that your amounts very with the activity you do. Having an 8 hour day sitting at the office and getting up randomly to do your work doesn't place you in the Active or moderately active bracket. You're in the less active plan. Unless you workout either cardio or weights before or after work. Then you can place yourself in the higher activity ranges.
So if you can use google to convert you're looking at 2 cups being 16 fluid ounces. Since we're not drinking our food you can easily use the portions to figure out the appropriate serving sizes. So taking the information from the last post:
Raw Veggies 1/2 cup, 2-2 1/2oz, 60-75g
Leaf Veggies 1-2 cups, 1-2oz, 30-60g
Fruit (fresh) 1/2 cup, 2-3oz, 60-90g
You can easily portion out your food amounts and then just grab the amounts your need in one go. For example I portion out the green beans, corn, carrots and the dried craisins and raisins, cut-up melon etc. into their portion sizes via snack baggies or mini containers then I just grab them out of the fridge or cupboard when I need them. So with my workout schedule I fall into the Moderately Active portion 2 cups Fruit 2 1/2 cup Veggies. That may not sound like very much but once you portion out your food it makes a huge difference.
This allows me to grab 2 portioned snack baggies of fruit in the morning and have one for lunch or dinner of just fruit. While at Lunch I can grab 2-3 snack baggies of Veggies and have 2-3 for dinner. Add that in with your meat portions one - two- or three times a week (Referring back to the Alton Brown Diet) and your grains/carbohydrates...You've actually got a healthy eating plan established and started that when balanced out with exercise will show you results faster and in all that you do. This is meant to be a permanent Life Change. Not a 30-60 or 90 day eating stint. This is how you get your life and health back.
It's hard when you hear it from other people or read it but I've laid all the necessary information out there and gathered it from truthful sources. Just follow along the posts and get started.
Leaf Veggies 1-2 cups, 1-2oz, 30-60g
Fruit (fresh) 1/2 cup, 2-3oz, 60-90g
You can easily portion out your food amounts and then just grab the amounts your need in one go. For example I portion out the green beans, corn, carrots and the dried craisins and raisins, cut-up melon etc. into their portion sizes via snack baggies or mini containers then I just grab them out of the fridge or cupboard when I need them. So with my workout schedule I fall into the Moderately Active portion 2 cups Fruit 2 1/2 cup Veggies. That may not sound like very much but once you portion out your food it makes a huge difference.
This allows me to grab 2 portioned snack baggies of fruit in the morning and have one for lunch or dinner of just fruit. While at Lunch I can grab 2-3 snack baggies of Veggies and have 2-3 for dinner. Add that in with your meat portions one - two- or three times a week (Referring back to the Alton Brown Diet) and your grains/carbohydrates...You've actually got a healthy eating plan established and started that when balanced out with exercise will show you results faster and in all that you do. This is meant to be a permanent Life Change. Not a 30-60 or 90 day eating stint. This is how you get your life and health back.
It's hard when you hear it from other people or read it but I've laid all the necessary information out there and gathered it from truthful sources. Just follow along the posts and get started.
