{"id":37445,"date":"2013-03-22T08:06:18","date_gmt":"2013-03-22T15:06:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/?p=37445"},"modified":"2013-03-19T10:00:50","modified_gmt":"2013-03-19T17:00:50","slug":"whats-really-a-serving-size","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/?p=37445","title":{"rendered":"What’s REALLY a Serving Size?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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It’s funny that I didn’t crave ice cream during February when I stopped eating dairy. I thought for sure I’d have mad cravings for it. I found that I missed things like cream cheese and sour cream more than ice cream while I was doing the challenge. I also thought for sure that the moment the challenge was over I’d be dying for ice cream. Again, it took a few weeks before I finally wanted some!<\/p>\n

I bought a carton of ice cream and it was just as amazing as always. Ice cream is the best. While I was standing at the counter dishing up dessert for Michael and I, I looked at the label.\u00a0There were 12 servings in the carton of ice cream for 140 calories each. That’s around the range that I usually stick to. I almost never buy a carton of ice cream that is over 175 calories a serving. That’s just too high for me.<\/p>\n

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What got me thinking was this: Have you ever actually looked at a carton of ice cream and visualized how many servings fit inside of it?<\/strong><\/em> I was surprised that 12 servings fit in my carton and that made me pause when I dished up a second scoop. I realized that I was eating two servings and not one because there is no way I get 12 desserts out of that carton!<\/p>\n

It’s easy to make mistakes like this, even when you’re a “seasoned” maintainer like me. I still struggle with serving sizes and it’s easy to get carried away with them! That’s another reason why I like the lower calorie ice creams. I usually end up having two servings and 220 calories for dessert is better than 400!!!<\/p>\n

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I’ve written about serving sizes many times before, but just to recap here you go:<\/p>\n

M is for Measuring Mistakes<\/a><\/p>\n

C is for Calories<\/a><\/p>\n

How to Count Calories<\/a><\/p>\n

Counting Calories and Serving Sizes<\/a><\/p>\n

Serving Sizes<\/a><\/p>\n

How to Lose Weight \u2013 Week Four<\/a><\/p>\n

Measuring a serving size out will make a world of difference in anyone’s weight loss journey or maintenance. I am definitely not immune to it and need a reminder once in awhile to PAY ATTENTION TO THE SERVING SIZE<\/strong><\/span>.<\/p>\n

QUESTION: Can you get 12 servings out of a carton of ice cream or is it more like 10? Or 8?<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s funny that I didn’t crave ice cream during February when I stopped eating dairy. I thought for sure I’d have mad cravings for it. I found that I missed things like cream cheese and sour cream more than ice cream while I was doing the challenge. I also thought for sure that the moment […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[55,2721,314],"tags":[516,700,6924,1007],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37445"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37445"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37445\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37473,"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37445\/revisions\/37473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}