<p>Back to portion control… Controlling and figuring out portion size is easy. What seems to be hard is sticking to the routine and not eating too many of these correctly sized portions! :)</p>
<p>People miscalculate how much they eat. They also miscalculate how much they burn while exercising. Many times I have been told that since I ran marathons I could eat any crap I wanted… Well, when I tell them that a body of my size burns 100 cal/mile ran, give or take a few cal, and there are 26 miles in a marathon, and to burn off a pound of fat one needs to spend 3500 calories… Jaws drop. Run for 4 hours to lose 2/3 of a lb?! And these are educated folks, some with PhDs in biological sciences! It is not that they did not know these basics, they simply did not do the math until I put it all in one sentence. </p>