motd Tuesday Aug 30, 2011

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ONE SERVING

Tuesday, 30 August 2011

Do you love cold cereals? I was

raised eating them. Sugar Smacks and Sugar Pops were

two of my favorites. And by the way, even thought the

ingredients are still the same in them both, they're

now called Corn Pops and Corn Smacks.

(Wink, wink!)

I'd open that box of cereal then

fill by bowl to the brim. Those little Sugar Smacks

would just sing as they filled my bowl.

Then came the milk-pouring ritual. I knew I'd poured

enough milk when a few of those Sugar Smacks spilled

from my bowl onto the table. Okay, that's

enough! They'd be floating in the bowl and

now, it was time to grab my spoon and dig in!

Back then, not once did I ever think about what one

serving of breakfast cereal was. Are you

kidding? Heck, we didn't care anything about serving

sizes back then. And I'm not gonna lie to you,

sometimes, after that first bowl of cereal, I'd pour

myself a second bowl, too!

I'm not the only person who didn't worry about portion

sizes back then. Hey, most Americans didn't and,

believe me, many of them still don't. And

how about you?

Today, in our more health-conscious society,

the USDA requires that all of our pre-packaged

foods include nutritional labels to tell us

everything we need to know about the foods we're

eating. But the print on those labels is so small,

you'd better get your glasses out to read them! LOL.

My father wasn't so worried about the portion sizes he

served back in New Orleans. He made one incredible

New York Steak. And hey, he didn't have some little

scale on the table so he could measure the portions as

he served us either. He'd just eyeball and slice a

huge piece of that steak for me to enjoy. And boy,

did I ever enjoy it!

But when we don't pay attention to

our portion sizes, what happens? Oh, you know. We

end up eating more than we should and...we end up

gaining weight!

So, do you need to lose weight?

Well, when you cut your serving sizes, you cut your

calories and that's when you begin to lose

weight. Hey, how simple is that?

Just about everyday, I'll receive an E-mail from

someone looking for my old Deal-A-Meal

weight-loss program. As most of you know, Deal-A-Meal

was replaced by my FoodMover which is a more

updated version. The FoodMover is based on portion

sizes. I researched and found the correct portion

sizes of thousands of foods and built my FoodMover on

those correct numbers. For instance, one ounce of

cold cereal equals one portion. If you have four

ounces of beef, that would mean closing four of the

protein windows on your FoodMover. It's a foolproof

system that helps to make sure you're eating the

proper portion sizes of all the foods you should be

eating from the six food groups.

So, do you know your correct

serving sizes? Or are you just eyeballing your foods,

(like my dad used to do), and eating as much as you

want? Hey, you're gonna gain weight if you're eating

like that! Maybe you should get

yourself a FoodMover so you can teach yourself

how to eat the right size portions and then you can

teach your family how to do it too.

Love,