how do you like your ribs?

[amw]

I think i am losing weight. I never weigh myself and very rarely look in the mirror, so it's an unusual thing for me to notice. When i moved to Germany from Canada i think i might have lost a little bit of weight because the serving sizes are smaller, but probably not very much. I did notice a small change when i started walking to work every day.

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[amw]

The scary thing about large portion sizes in America (and Australia and Canada) is how we brainwash ourselves to expect it. Even though most people know that scientifically speaking many of these dishes are more than the body needs, you still "feel" hungry when you are given a smaller portion.

This really struck me when i returned to Canada after living in Germany for a while. I went back to my favorite pub to eat my favorite burger - a bison meat deal with blue cheese and bacon in a sweet/soft onion bun. But when the dish arrived i realized i could barely even make it through the burger, much less the mountain of fries. When i lived in Canada i regularly ate that burger along with several beers and it felt like a great meal. It was only after going "cold turkey" in a place where all the portions were smaller that i realized it was much more than i needed. And it's not just restaurant food - even things like bags of chips and jars of peanut butter and boxes of cereal contribute to the problem, imo. It's insidious how trained we are to expect abundance.

The age thing was a bit of hyperbole because it was more fun to write that way ;-) I do hope to be active and still enjoying my life in my 60s and beyond!