{"id":9585,"date":"2018-03-22T14:49:33","date_gmt":"2018-03-22T14:49:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/firerescuefitness.com\/?p=9585"},"modified":"2024-05-30T09:30:33","modified_gmt":"2024-05-30T14:30:33","slug":"portion-control-strategy-for-the-firehouse-or-any-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/firerescuefitness.com\/2018\/03\/portion-control-strategy-for-the-firehouse-or-any-house\/","title":{"rendered":"Portion Control Strategy for the Firehouse (or any house)."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cooking in the firehouse is pretty difficult. \u00a0One of the biggest fears of every firehouse chef is not preparing enough food for the crew. \u00a0This fear usually leads to an excess of available food and larger portions around the table. \u00a0So, today I wanted to give you a quick and easy &#8220;trick&#8221; you can use to get your crew to take smaller servings.\u00a0 This post was inspired by a conversation had with one of the great people in the fire service, retired FDNY Chief Salka .\u00a0 Click the video to hear and learn from his experience on eating in the firehouse.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/s_J_AGu5BwQ?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>To elaborate on the points made in the video.\u00a0 Take a look at the picture below and answer this question: \u00a0Which is the larger black circle \u2013 the left or the right?<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-9583 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/firerescuefitness.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/delboeufillusion-300x183-300x183.jpg?resize=300%2C183\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"183\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Does the one on the right side look larger to you? \u00a0Yes?<\/p>\n<p>If you said that the one on the right is larger, you are wrong. \u00a0The\u00a0correct\u00a0answer is that they\u2019re both the same size!<\/p>\n<p>Interestingly, this silly perception problem could be causing you and your crew to eat more food. \u00a0 Most firehouses not only serve an abundance of food but they usually serve them on large plates. \u00a0Lets be honest, it does feel too good to heap your plate when you\u2019re starving at the end of the day, but if you\u2019re struggling to finish all of it or you feel a huge energy slump after your meal, it\u2019s probably a sign that you\u2019re <em>having more food than \u00a0your body needs.<\/em> \u00a0A simple switch of dinnerware size could be incredibly useful solution to the large firehouse serving size.<\/p>\n<p>Research suggests that people eat up to 22% fewer calories when they\u2019re able to decrease the amount of empty space on their plate\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/GMA\/kitchen-making-fat\/story?id=12608139#.Ty9M6trhdtM\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(click here to read more)<\/a>. Basically, when you see a large plate with empty void around the food, the brain\u00a0unconsciously\u00a0assumes the plate contains less food than a smaller-sized dish with no white space (see below), when in fact, both plates contain the same amount.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-9582 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/firerescuefitness.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/plate-size-side-by-side.jpg?resize=323%2C202\" alt=\"\" width=\"323\" height=\"202\" \/><\/p>\n<p>If your in the firehouse with the plate on the left, I can almost guarantee you are gonna load it up. \u00a0Larger plates can make a serving of food appear smaller; and smaller plates can lead us to misjudge that the very same quantity of food as being much larger.\u00a0This leads you to eating more from the large plate. And since the eyes (not the stomach) count the calories, the brain will still think that the body is eating less \u2013 and the more likely it will send signals for you to embark on getting hold of a second serving, thanks to the survival instinct.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">So the key is to serve your firehouse meals on smaller plates.<\/span><\/em><\/strong> \u00a0Instead of\u00a0using a big 20-inch plate for your meals, opt for a 8-inch plate.\u00a0 If you\u2019re using different plates for different foods, you can switch things around to your advantage. Use bowls for salads and vegetables and smaller plates for the meat and carbohydrates. \u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>AND, don&#8217;t go back for seconds!<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Hope this &#8220;trick&#8221; helps.<\/p>\n<p>Stay safe and healthy,<\/p>\n<p>Aaron Zamzow<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/firerescuefitness.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.firerescuefitness.com<\/a><\/p>\n<pre><\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cooking in the firehouse is pretty difficult. \u00a0One of the biggest fears of every firehouse chef is not preparing enough food for the crew. \u00a0This fear usually leads to an excess of available food and larger portions around the table. \u00a0So, today I wanted to give you a quick and easy &#8220;trick&#8221; you can use&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":10979,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[100,6,38,59,15],"tags":[367,221,366,368],"class_list":["post-9585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-components-of-firefighter-workout","category-firefighter-fitness","category-firefighter-fitness-program","category-firefighter-nutrition","category-firefighter-workout","tag-firehouse-food","tag-firehouse-nutrition","tag-portion-control-firefighter","tag-servings-size-control"],"acf":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paAEPz-2uB","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/firerescuefitness.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/portion-control-for-the-firehouse.png?fit=1280%2C720&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/firerescuefitness.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/firerescuefitness.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/firerescuefitness.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firerescuefitness.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firerescuefitness.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9585"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/firerescuefitness.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9585\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22295,"href":"https:\/\/firerescuefitness.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9585\/revisions\/22295"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firerescuefitness.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/firerescuefitness.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firerescuefitness.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firerescuefitness.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}