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<blockquote data-quote="Sid Bonkers" data-source="post: 168163" data-attributes="member: 19121"><p>I think that <strong>average</strong> is a funny word as it will mean different things to different people, I read on here all the time people saying "<em>I ate an average sized piece of (insert carb rich food stuff) and my bg went through the roof so I cant eat that any more</em>"</p><p></p><p>In most health service/dietitians leaflets it talks about portion sizes as being "the size of your fist" or "what you can hold in your cupped hand" .</p><p></p><p>I still think there are many people, even some of the good people on this site, who still eat larger portions than perhaps is good for them. Let me qualify that, I have found that recently I can eat cornflakes for breakfast, now for over a year even an<strong> average</strong> amount of breakfast cereal would have put me into double figures and I used to just have a half a grapefruit. Now if I eat what I would call an <strong>average</strong> portion of cornflakes it would still put me over my target numbers but 20g I can get away with. I read in another thread recently someone saying "<em>all they had was 40g of cereal</em>" well this morning I thought I would do an experiment and I poured cornflakes into my cupped hand and guess what 18grams was the maximum I could hold and although I dont have hands like shovels I dont have small hand either. So I can't eat what I would call an <strong>average</strong> sized portion but I can eat what the NHS suggests is a portion. </p><p></p><p>Other portions that I regularly eat are 2 table spoons of basmati rice, about a handful I would guess, 3 small roast potatoes or 4 very small new potatoes, again about a handful. </p><p></p><p>I very occasionally eat fish n chips and I eat about 6 to 12 chips depending on the chip size, roughly what I could cup in my hand, I could not eat even half of what the average chippy calls a small portion of chips let alone an <strong>average</strong> sized portion :lol:</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Sid Bonkers, post: 168163, member: 19121"] I think that [b]average[/b] is a funny word as it will mean different things to different people, I read on here all the time people saying "[i]I ate an average sized piece of (insert carb rich food stuff) and my bg went through the roof so I cant eat that any more[/i]" In most health service/dietitians leaflets it talks about portion sizes as being "the size of your fist" or "what you can hold in your cupped hand" . I still think there are many people, even some of the good people on this site, who still eat larger portions than perhaps is good for them. Let me qualify that, I have found that recently I can eat cornflakes for breakfast, now for over a year even an[b] average[/b] amount of breakfast cereal would have put me into double figures and I used to just have a half a grapefruit. Now if I eat what I would call an [b]average[/b] portion of cornflakes it would still put me over my target numbers but 20g I can get away with. I read in another thread recently someone saying "[i]all they had was 40g of cereal[/i]" well this morning I thought I would do an experiment and I poured cornflakes into my cupped hand and guess what 18grams was the maximum I could hold and although I dont have hands like shovels I dont have small hand either. So I can't eat what I would call an [b]average[/b] sized portion but I can eat what the NHS suggests is a portion. Other portions that I regularly eat are 2 table spoons of basmati rice, about a handful I would guess, 3 small roast potatoes or 4 very small new potatoes, again about a handful. I very occasionally eat fish n chips and I eat about 6 to 12 chips depending on the chip size, roughly what I could cup in my hand, I could not eat even half of what the average chippy calls a small portion of chips let alone an [b]average[/b] sized portion :lol: [/QUOTE]
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