Another twenty years had passed, and I ended up buying many other dinnerware sets and stopped using the one my mom gave me.
So today, when I was thinking about healthy eating and how to stop the steady weight-gain, I thought to myself that I must develop another habit.
Habit #2
Portion control, portion control, portion control! Eat out of small plates!
Did you know that we usually eat most of what is on our plate, no matter what size plate we use?
Well, all the plates I use at home are standard size. At first I thought that whenever I put food on my plate, I then should take maybe a third off the plate, and get used to this portion size. But then, I thought of the plates my mom gave me and see if they are any different.
And here is what I found!
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Can you guess which one is which? |
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As you see, my old dinner plate is almost the size of my new salad plate! |
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Can you even see the dinner plate under the new salad plate? |
I went to ask for help from the awesomest person I know who knows math - Robert. He explained to me that... okay, I stopped paying attention to his explanation as to how to calculate the ratio between 9"diameter circle and 11" diameter circle, but the final answer was that in the relationship between the two circles, an 11"circle is about 30% bigger than a 9" circle. I am not even calculating the additional difference between the two salad plates!
Apparently, we are now eating 30% more food than before!
Just saying...
xo, Zuma A.
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