I have to admire the strategy of some restaurants. Serving up minuscule portions of (no doubt perfectly cooked!) massively priced food is a recipe to leave the owners exceedingly well off.
Happily for all, their diners would rarely complain because presumably they are used to tiny meals, and will exercise off every single calorie the following day.
What about those of us who must almost always choose the “Restaurant a la Home”? Similarly, we eat a portion size that matches our body size. The difference is that it is a larger portion for a larger body size (and with out any doubt at all, rarely, if ever, perfectly cooked!).
Reducing the size of our meal portions is a very hard thing to do. It needs to be gradual, done very slowly. A certain amount of subterfuge can be engaged in to deal with the gap between what the body wants to eat and what the eyes want to eat. Perhaps we will consider serving up less meat but the same amount of vegetables for a few months. Eventually we will just need less, so tend to place less on the plate.
On the few occasions we do dine out we will want choose a restaurant that is likely to match the portion size we are currently used to. Above all else, these are not the nights to eat as a rabbit would.