Read Sally's story to understand why size counts!
Sally could not understand why her friend Jane could eat the same kinds of food as she did but never put on weight. It wasn't fair. She must have inherited the wrong genes.
Jane ate chocolate, loved pasta and enjoyed all of those things that Sally knew put weight on. But she was still slim whereas Sally had put on weight.
In fact Sally was overweight and had decided she had to do something to lose weight.
One of the first steps in Sally's Step-by-Step Healthy Weight Loss program was to understand, not only what she was eating, but also how much she was eating.
As she recorded her weekly food consumption she started to notice a few things.
When Jane ate chocolate, she bought a large block to share. Jane ate one row (160 calories) and Sally ate the rest (370 calories).
When they went out for lunch, they usually ordered the same food but Jane couldn't eat all of her meal and often left ¼ of her meal behind. Sally had been brought up to leave her plate clean and always ate all of her meal.
For the office morning teas, Jane would have a small piece of cake whereas Sally had two or three slices.
On the surface they were eating the same food but the size of the portions was very different.
Sally started to realize that if she was eating 25% more food than Jane, she was eating 25% more calories.
Maybe it wasn't Jane's genes that kept her slim after all - it was her food portion sizes!
