Portion size perils

I wanted to share a brief real life portion challenge I faced yesterday. I went to try out a new frozen yogurt place with the family. The store was giving some of the sales to a local school.

The big sign in the store touted how healthy their yogurt was - low calorie, safe for diabetics, safe for lactose intolerant, ect. The set up in the store allowed you to self serve the yogurt, add toppings, and then pay based on the weight of the serving.


HERE'S THE PERIL..... the sign also said that an 8 oz serving of yogurt had 64 calories. BUT... the only container choice available was much larger at 32 oz.  The store's system was set up to make it hard to truly control portion size if you're counting.


IN ADDITION, the toppings were mostly unhealthy choices like gummi bears or crumbled candy bars further making controlling calories a challenge. Filling the cup up and adding candy toppings would probably set you back at least 350 calories or more.

I hopefully stayed under a 100 calories with my choice. I tried to ballpark 8 oz of the chocolate yogurt (hardly filled the monster cup) and added maybe 1/2 or 1/4 cup of chopped strawberries.

So, be a hawk about portions and choices when eating out.