Is there a guide I can use to determine healthy portion sizes?

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Host: Is there a guide, I can use to determine healthy portion sizes?

Jeannette Bessinger: When you are just beginning to work with listening to your hunger and your satisfaction signals, it can be difficult to distinguish them. So, one very concrete guide that can work for anyone and any age is to use the hand guide.

Your stomach is roughly the size of two fists put together like this. So, if you imagine that your chewed food amounts to this amount in one meal, you will be on the right track.

In order to do that, if you break your plate down. When you are looking at your plate if you are eating about half a plate of vegetables, which is a really good balance. It's about a cup hands portion of vegetables, your protein which is your second micronutrient should be about the size of your palm in thickness and in breadth and your starchy food which takes up about a quarter of the plate should be around the size of the fist.

So, this would be a baked sweet potato or beans or brown rice and that will give you a good starting place.

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