Super size me... Yuck

It is amazing how in over a year and a half my view of portion sizes has changed drastically. I will never forget when I got here to Japan, everything looked so small. A large coke was the size of an American child sized coke. Today, I had a very strange moment that brought this all back to me in a hurry.

Most of you know I workout 6 days a week and have one free day, my free day usually falls on Friday, but today (Saturday), I was craving some Taco Bell. I went to Atsugi and got Taco Bell. First the women in front of me ordered 5 items and ate them all herself. In my opinion quite a task for one person, she made light work of it. Since, I was on a bit of a junk food bender, I decided to go to the "America" McDonald's across the street and get a milkshake. I went through the drive thru and ordered a strawberry milkshake. The lady said, a medium?, I said yes, medium sounded like a good option. I pulled forward and picked up my shake. IT WAS HUGE!! Well, not really, but that was my first thought, holy cow, who needs that much milkshake. I drank it until I was full. Then I opened the top, because it still felt heavy. I had only drank about 1/4 of the milkshake and I was DONE!! Stuffed and full.

All I could think was... man, I have gotten use to Japanese portions.

Below is are some pictures comparing the differences in portion sizes.

I am now thankful, for small portions.

America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail it knocks over a chair.
-Arnold J. Toynbee,