Bread vs Toast

MoiAussi93

DawnieB1977 wrote: »

BFDeal wrote: »

geotrice wrote: »

How much toast are you eating in a day for the difference in calories to be anything but negligible?

To be fair the minute anyone on here suspects that you don't weigh down to the nano-gram you will be shunned. I've been accused on multiple occasions of weighing my cottage cheese incorrectly simply because the diary entry appears in cups instead of grams. Nevermind that I weigh my cottage cheese in grams and use math to convert to a value to put in based off the serving size in grams off the container. Nope. Not good enough. The entry is displayed in cups as a fraction therefore I'm lying about how much cottage cheese I'm eating. Also I once had a healthy debate on the merits of weighing individual Oreos with someone. You're supposed to weigh them you know. Because instead of 17 grams what if one was 18 grams? Your calories for that Oreo will be off by 4 whole calories. But I digress. Who's to say what's normal and what isn't in these cases. I see people logging vitamins and fish oil pills.

Omg what if you lick the spoon you used for the cottage cheese? Lol.

I weigh bread as one slice, that's it. I am not insane enough to weigh a slice of bread. Besides, I have a slice every day, so it all evens out.

I wonder how on earth people lost weight before the existence of MFP?

I agree completely.

Billions of people in human history and in recent years have maintained a healthy weight or lost weight without ever counting calories, let alone using mfp. I think mfp and other sites like it are a great tool, and incredible useful to a lot of people trying to lose, gain, maintain, or just get a better understanding of their nutritional needs.

However, I do think some people forget it is a tool...something meant to be helpful TO THEM and basically a glorified calculator/notebook...and instead become a slave to mfp. If someone wants to weight each individual oreo or slice of bread, and that makes them happy...wonderful! I support their right to do it...even if I am chuckling over it. But if someone else want to throw caution to the wind and eat cottage cheese without weighing directly from the container...I support that rebellious scoundrel as well. You can be successful either way.

Cortelli

I weigh my bread, but then again I almost always have sliced sourdough rounds in the house, and those slices can be all over the map in terms of weight. With a uniform loaf of bread from the store, I'd probably just go with the packaging serving for each slice.

elphie754

MoiAussi93 wrote: »

BFDeal wrote: »

geotrice wrote: »

How much toast are you eating in a day for the difference in calories to be anything but negligible?

To be fair the minute anyone on here suspects that you don't weigh down to the nano-gram you will be shunned. I've been accused on multiple occasions of weighing my cottage cheese incorrectly simply because the diary entry appears in cups instead of grams. Nevermind that I weigh my cottage cheese in grams and use math to convert to a value to put in based off the serving size in grams off the container. Nope. Not good enough. The entry is displayed in cups as a fraction therefore I'm lying about how much cottage cheese I'm eating. Also I once had a healthy debate on the merits of weighing individual Oreos with someone. You're supposed to weigh them you know. Because instead of 17 grams what if one was 18 grams? Your calories for that Oreo will be off by 4 whole calories. But I digress. Who's to say what's normal and what isn't in these cases. I see people logging vitamins and fish oil pills.

I laughed out loud reading this and almost spit my coffee all over the screen. I know exactly what you're saying though, I've seen it a million times on here. I'm surprised I haven't been banned yet...I don't even HAVE a food scale! LOL!

ETA: And don't tell anyone, I don't even use measuring cups/spoon for most things unless they are high calorie items like oil. I just estimate, and the world keeps right on spinning.

It's almost as bad as those who demand you open your diary and if you say no they shun you as well.

MoiAussi93

elphie754 wrote: »

MoiAussi93 wrote: »

BFDeal wrote: »

geotrice wrote: »

How much toast are you eating in a day for the difference in calories to be anything but negligible?

To be fair the minute anyone on here suspects that you don't weigh down to the nano-gram you will be shunned. I've been accused on multiple occasions of weighing my cottage cheese incorrectly simply because the diary entry appears in cups instead of grams. Nevermind that I weigh my cottage cheese in grams and use math to convert to a value to put in based off the serving size in grams off the container. Nope. Not good enough. The entry is displayed in cups as a fraction therefore I'm lying about how much cottage cheese I'm eating. Also I once had a healthy debate on the merits of weighing individual Oreos with someone. You're supposed to weigh them you know. Because instead of 17 grams what if one was 18 grams? Your calories for that Oreo will be off by 4 whole calories. But I digress. Who's to say what's normal and what isn't in these cases. I see people logging vitamins and fish oil pills.

I laughed out loud reading this and almost spit my coffee all over the screen. I know exactly what you're saying though, I've seen it a million times on here. I'm surprised I haven't been banned yet...I don't even HAVE a food scale! LOL!

ETA: And don't tell anyone, I don't even use measuring cups/spoon for most things unless they are high calorie items like oil. I just estimate, and the world keeps right on spinning.

It's almost as bad as those who demand you open your diary and if you say no they shun you as well.

Shunned by the mfp diary Nazis!!! How does one find the strength to carry on after such a tragedy?

I was actually once "shunned" because I don't have pictures posted. The person basically said that because I don't show lingerie pics, I am obviously extremely unsuccessful at weight loss and nothing I say has value. I couldn't tell if he was just trolling, or really that stupid...neither would surprise me. That one really made me laugh AND roll my eyes.