How accurate are you?

vchan000

I weigh my meat, cheese, potatoes & snacky food (pretzels, popcorn etc), and use measuring cups/spoons for rice, butter, oils, milk etc. Fruits and vegetables are done relying on the MFP database entirely for the calories in '1 apple, medium'

An individual on the forums once said that eating clean was the solution, and you could eat 5000 calories of vegetables and not gain weight. Out of curiosity I calculated how much 5k calories of broccoli would weigh, and it's something like 32lbs. Good luck eating that in one day. All I took away from that conversation was I can get away with eyeballing my vegetables and not sweat it.

For one pot meals like chili and stew, I add up everything going into the pot, then estimate my calories based on how much of the total I take.