Restaurants serve large servings to keep you coming back
. If they didn't give you those large servings you wouldn't come back and they'd be out of business. What is the best thing to do, eat enough to give you that full feeling and stop. Put the rest in a doggy bag. That old saying about cleaning your plate came from the days when you'd go out after dinner and chop some wood, burning off many of the calories you just taken in.