This handy chart is part of Health magazine’s Feel Great Weight Plan: Your What-to-Eat Guide.
From breakfast to dessert, here’s your complete eating strategy. To keep weight off, keep these quick guidelines in mind.
| A serving of… | is about equivalent to this… |
|---|---|
| Red meat | Palm of your hand (3 oz) |
| Chicken | Palm of your hand plus up to your knuckle (5 oz) |
| Fish | Your entire hand and as thick as your thumb at the knuckle (6 oz) |
| Pasta | Small fist |
| Rice/couscous | Baseball |
| Peanut or almond butter | Golf ball |
| Salad dressing | 1/2 shot glass |
| Cereal | Baseball |
| Dried fruit | 2 dominoes |
Comments (6)
I was about to download the PDF version of the Portion Control Chart, but noticed that the file also contained a table for substitutions. Are the entries for the tuna and turkey burgers (two entries on the left) correct? The tuna entry is duplicated in the right column. This makes we wonder how carefully your editors are doing their job and how accurate the rest of the info you provide is.
Hi A zamu,
Give the download a shot again. The information has been updated and is accurate now! Thanks for the heads up.
Plus, on the PDF file it says fruit portions are baseball sized and cereal is a teacup, but here on web version you’ve put baseball on the cereal row. That’s a big difference
this is just a comment about the article “want to live longer,cut back on red meat” by Jacquelyne Froeber.. i didn’t see a link to post from that article, so this seemed like the next best place…
the article states that the A.I.C.R. suggests no more than 18oz of red meat… with the annotation “(the equivalent of a child size fast food hamburger)”. i’ve never seen a child’s burger 1.22 lbs… please remind everyone to do their own research (and math) when it comes to nutrition as not all the information is quite accurate and can be misleading….
Joe,
Just FYI, I think the article meant
18oz/week = 7 child sized burgers total for the week.
(1 child sized burger x 7 days)
That being said… it estimates that a child sized burger is ~ 2.5 oz, which is much more likely the case.
Regards.
Is there another chart with specific amounts. I bought a scale and are trying to make exact portions. I’ve tried eyeballing it, I just don’t think my portions by conparing are right.