What the fuck is up with restaurant portions in America? I've

>>42281665
Just don't eat it all at once and save some for later. It's not a social faux pas to get a box for your food.

>>42281665
Do you eat every meal at a cheesecake factory? Plenty of restaurants have actual low calorie options lol

But yes, its generally better to prepare most of your meals at home. You can better control calorie and macro/micro intake if you track those.

>>42281665

Large portions are generally a sign of a bad restaurant. maybe eat out less and go to fancy restaurants when you do.

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>>42281665
>15 years old
>stop drinking soda for a school project on habit-forming
>barely drink soda so it's easy A

>fastforward to 2016
>late for dinner, go to Carl's Jr. for easy calories
>order medium drink
>it's huge
>"oh no, a medium please"
>"that is the medium"
>mfw

>>42281665
congrats losing 17lb m80. if you know about a restaurant meal in advance then maybe you can budget for it by slightly reducing cals in the days around it

>>42282280
yeah carls jr and jack in the box and a few other chains have like ~30 oz cups as their "medium"

it's fucked up

my entire goddamn life i would get one of those with sugared soda, drink the whole thing with my meal, and then get a refill to drink on the way home and i never thought there was anything wrong with it

i could have just been not fat instead of having to realize it myself and go through the tedious process of cutting for months-years

>>42281665
Of course it depends on what you order. The nice thing about these restaurants is that the portions and ingredients are very tightly controlled, so you know what you're getting. You can't say the same about a non-chain restaurant.

If you're cutting, just look at the menu ahead of time and pick out something that meets your needs. I'll go to Olive Garden with my family, but I'll get a salad with grilled chicken in top. One bowl, with dressing and croutons, a bread stick, and a cup of minestrone soup and I'm around 800 calories.

>>42282356
the fact that you are working on changing your body puts you ahead of most people, so congratulations anon. Nothing we can do about our upbringing now. But yeah, it's ridiculous how big portion sizes have gotten in the past 50 years, at least in America. It's one of those things that are dangerously easy to ignore.