Approximate Single-Serving Sizes
Grilled fish
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Personal checkbook
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Potato
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Computer mouse
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Meat serving
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Deck of cards
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Hard cheese
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Four dice
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Peanut butter
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Tip of your thumb
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Cup of fruit
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Baseball
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Apple/Orange
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Tennis ball
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Once we see how small servings are, most of us realize our portions are way too big. A typical serving of steak at a restaurant, for example, is the size of four decks of cards, the equivalent of four servings. Obviously, choosing to eat wisely means giving importance both to what and to how much we eat.
Carole Carson, author of From Fat to Fit: Turn Yourself into a Weapon of Mass Reduction, serves as the coach for the AARP Fat to Fit online community.