Let's Get Rightsized™

Get Rightsized™ and save the planet one dish at a time!

We live in a world of supersized portions, supersized homes, and supersized cars. Our clothes are too big, our furniture is too big, and we have too much stuff. We are using up valuable resources at an alarming rate and it is not sustainable. Food portions have exploded in recent decades. So have our waistlines, our furniture, our cars, and our homes. Our clothes are getting baggier to accommodate our growing girths. Even the average American house has nearly doubled in size over the past 50 years! 

It's time to Get Rightsized™. Not only will it help us slim down and save money, but it will also help save our planet. Let's start with our food portions. A typical restaurant meal today is enough for two or even three people. When we're eating at home, we can easily control our portion sizes by using Get Rightsized™ plates and bowls. We can also help save the planet by Rightsizing our dishes. In the U.S., we use an estimated 27 billion paper and plastic cups, plates, and bowls each year. If everyone in the U.S. Got Rightsized™ dishes, we could save enough paper and plastic to cover an area the size of Rhode Island! And that's just disposable items.

Tableware Market Report Scope indicates that the Tableware Market size value in 2020 was USD 45.08 billion and the revenue forecast in 2025 is expected to grow to USD 60.40 billion. If we could cut the size of our food portions and the dishware that is used to serve them even by 1/2 imagine how much resources we can save annually in just tableware alone!

Together we can change how we eat so that we optimize our portions, our bodies, and our lives. The resources that are being wasted today because of the way we eat are depleting resources for generations to come. When we optimize our eating and living we optimize all our resources including time and money. When you multiply that by billions of people we can save billions of dollars that we can use for... well, anything!

There are thousands of ways that we are impacting our planet by excess food consumption. The expanded food portions expanded our dishware and utensils. These in turn expanded our thoughts and our bodies. Larger bodies use up more resources from increased fuel consumption to healthcare. We can optimize our bodies by changing how we eat and optimizing the use of all our resources. Our planet will benefit from all the incremental changes we can make to optimize our lives. And, we can live healthier and more fulfilling lives in the process!

When our dinner plates alone increased from 9 inches to 12 inches the amount of material used to make a single plate doubled. The packaging of these for sale, the shipping, and delivery of these bigger plates, storage and warehousing, heating of bigger facilities, and bigger equipment to make these bigger plates all increase the resources we use just because our dinner plate looks more elegant. But, we can save all these resources by using smaller more optimally sized dinnerware. And, we will still have plenty of food to eat!

The trend in food portions has been linked to the "supersizing" of America. But it's not just Americans who are affected. Portion sizes have increased around the world as global trade and food marketing have become more common. And as portions have increased, so have our waistlines. In the U.S., the prevalence of obesity has more than tripled since 1960!

But it's not just our waistlines that are growing. Our furniture, cars, and homes are getting bigger, too. The average American home has expanded in so many ways. In the United States, food waste is estimated at between 30-40 percent of the food supply. Not all this food waste is a result of oversized portions but the overfilling of our plates has an impact that we can address by simply Getting Rightsized™ portions on the Rightsized™ dish.

Larger dishware makes us overload our dishes and we simply toss the food we do not eat. Do you need all the french fries with every burger? Think back to when you tossed the leftovers recently. Did you need to make as much of the food as you thought you needed? 

Another wasted resource is water and detergent used to clean these bigger plates and dishware. Now you need bigger kitchen cabinets and expanded pantries so that you can store these expanded plates, what about the bowls, cups, glasses, utensils, and expanded food packages?

The plates are a small fraction of the overall price we pay for the oversized lifestyle. Our healthcare system cost is exploding impacted by the growing obesity pandemic. Diseases that are preventable in many cases are stealing the joy of our lives. Rightsizing our eatingware and by Getting Rightsized™ we can make a difference that will impact the future of our children and grandchildren.

 The time we spend preparing, cooking, and eating can be reduced by optimally sized portions. More time to do the things we love with the people we love. Some of us have unique genetic or disease-based reasons for our excess weight. But for the majority of people, portion size is the key driver of weight gain and we can make a huge difference for ourselves and our planet.

The greatest cost we pay as a result of growing obesity is the loss of joy. The joy of families having fun together. The joy of being able to play with our kids or grandkids. The ability to take a walk or bicycle ride without losing our breath. Optimal eating leads to optimal living. We can change how we eat and live to help shrink our carbon footprint today.  

 The way we are eating affects our living in so many ways. Extra weight in cars and planes is requiring more fuel. An extra 100 pounds in your vehicle could reduce your MPG by about 1%. Our expanded bodies require stronger and larger furniture, car seats, plane seats even ambulance equipment, and hospital beds have grown to accommodate our increased body size. Getting Rightsized™ is a way we can optimize all our resources and make a difference. It starts in our kitchens, cafeterias, and restaurants.

Rightsizing our food portions is a way we can help reduce obesity and the many diseases associated with it. It’s a way we can help preserve our environment by reducing the number of resources we use. And it’s a way to improve our quality of life by freeing up time to enjoy the things we love!

 We can change how the world eats together by changing our lifestyle from what we want to what we need! - Get Righsized™ the amount of what we need so that we can DO ALL WE WANT.

 Now is the time to act. We can begin by making small incremental changes in our lives that will have a lasting impact on us, our families, and our planet! Join the movement and let's Get Rightsized™!

 So let's Get Rightsized™ today! Together we can save our planet one portion at a time! So let's Get Rightsized™ and help save our planet!

 References: https://www.grandviewresearch.com/industry-analysis/tableware-market : "Tableware Market Size, Share & Trends Analysis Report By Product (Glassware, Ceramicware, Metalware, Plastic/Fiberware), By Distribution (Offline, Online), And Segment Forecasts, 2020 - 2025"