Super Sizing is a Super No-No!
The reflex to “Super-size” our meals has become almost as natural as asking for fries with your burger, and while it would be best to avoid junk food altogether, if you must eat it, don’t make a bad situation worse by doubling it! The fact that you can walk into a popular convenience store and buy a cup of soda the size of your gas tank doesn’t mean you should.
Proper weight management depends good portion control, and fast food restaurants don’t make that job easy for us. The fact is that your stomach is actually very small, about the size of your fist. That is at least until you stretch it beyond it’s limits by filling it like a grocery cart. The stomach will actually hold as much as a gallon of food at one time, but then that explains why you can’t get your shirt to cover your belly.
Get in the habit of controlling your portions, and you will be well on the way to controlling your weight. While there are no definitive measure for how much of a portion constitutes a proper serving, we can assure you that whatever you get “Super-sized” is not the healthy standard. If anything, take the amount you are served at the restaurant and consume only half of it (not after you “Super-size either), and you will be on the right track to proper portion control. Now, all you have to worry about is getting the proper nutrition in those portions, a topic for another day.
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