Cant find weights of food eaten?

at100uk

Hi, I have been inputting my food intake for the last 6 days. However, I cant always find the right weights for foods eaten. Is there anyway of inputting the weight independently of the pick lists? This is the only part I am getting frustrated with.

So if I have 20 grams of a food I can only find 150gram Hope this makes sense

Ready2Rock206

Math. If you eat 20 grams and 150 is in the database divide 20 by 150 and enter your serving as .13

at100uk

I am being really thick here but where do I enter the 13

SezxyStef

at100uk wrote: »

I am being really thick here but where do I enter the 13

Same place you enter the 1....but if it's in a 150gram serving I would double check nutritional information on that entry as it is probably user entered.

http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/1234699-logging-accurately-step-by-step-guide?hl=Logging+accurately

at100uk

servings are on the left and weights of food on the right. It does not let me input my own weights?

prestigio

Adjust the "servings" (to for example .13) ;-)

erickirb

at100uk wrote: »

servings are on the left and weights of food on the right. It does not let me input my own weights?

which is why you change the serving size as mentioned earlier.

If the serving says 1 and equals 100 grams, but you eat 50 grams you would enter 0.5 as your serving size (50/100)

at100uk

Thank you all. A very red face here

Ready2Rock206

at100uk wrote: »

I am being really thick here but where do I enter the 13

0.13 servings - not 13 servings - the period is important when indicating less than one serving

shadowfax_c11

at100uk wrote: »

Thank you all. A very red face here

Don't feel bad. It took me a couple of days to figure that out myself.

Liftng4Lis

shadowfax_c11 wrote: »

at100uk wrote: »

Thank you all. A very red face here

Don't feel bad. It took me a couple of days to figure that out myself.

Totally normal.

at100uk

SezxyStef wrote: »

at100uk wrote: »

I am being really thick here but where do I enter the 13

Same place you enter the 1....but if it's in a 150gram serving I would double check nutritional information on that entry as it is probably user entered.

http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/1234699-logging-accurately-step-by-step-guide?hl=Logging+accurately

Thank you for this information it is very helpful

abelcat1

Hehe... a lot of us had to think really hard for a moment to figure that out, when we started logging. It´s a Classic here on MFP Don´t feel bad.

juliet3455

I have re-posted this multiple times : I was using MFP for a good 6 months before I found these posts so it is a bit of a personal mission of mine to pass them on to other people who are just starting.

My standard suggestion/tip is to do some reading and buy a kitchen scale!!! which you already have.

arditarose and blankiefinder‌ Nailed it when it comes to Logging accurately and selecting food using the search feature.

arditarose wrote: »

Weigh your eggs and find the appropriate entry. Two eggs at 50 grams is typically 140 calories. If you cooked them with olive oil, add that as well.

blankiefinder wrote: »

if I haven't found an entry that lists the grams, I keep looking for a different entry. This [ Enter Food ] item is already listed a bunch of times. Better to edit and correct one that is already there than add to the database mess that exists now.

Merkavar wrote: »

What? Where are the *s? I don't think I have ever seen on and also if I did see one I didn't know that no * meant it was a my fitness pal entry.

JPW1990 wrote: »

Go to the database and look up something like poptarts or doritos. You'll see an asterisk before the first letter of every food on the list. When you look up something like tomato or chicken breast, there should be at least one entry without one, that's official from MFP via the USDA site or similar, and a bunch of others entered by users that start with the asterisk.

When creating or editing a Food item from the existing database my Personal Bias is to Edit an existing Entry and enter the nutritional values based on grams ( 100 gm ) as it makes the portion size math easy. Especially when you use a scale and WEIGH EVERYTHING. Don't log 2 eggs as it is a subjective number, where 50 gm. is very concise.
Re-train/calibrate your mind as to what a portion size is..
You will be surprised how small some portions look when you start to weigh them out. The average cereal bowl I have in my kitchen will hold 2-6 portions.

For Nutritional values start with the values from the product label and confirm it with the un-biased nutritional information from the USDA web site at 100 gm.

Try the USDA site as a cross reference for nutrition values of different food diary entries.
http://ndb.nal.usda.gov/

http://blog.myfitnesspal.com/the-next-step/

Visit the Eat-Train-Progress group and read the pinned topics. If you click on the little STAR you can bookmark the topic for future reference.

http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/group/10118-eat-train-progress

Read the information at these MFP post. They have links to multiple very good reads.

http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/833026/important-posts-to-read/p1

http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/categories/getting-started

http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/1234699/logging-accurately-step-by-step-guide/p1 ( All ready mentioned by SezxyStef, Thanks Stef for this great post )

http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/1080242/a-guide-to-get-you-started-on-your-path-to-sexypants/p1

http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/1069278/acronyms-and-terms-for-new-mfp-members-v-6/p1

Visit these links about building Habits.

http://www.myfitnesspal.com/blog/ihad/view/the-power-of-habit-part-1-why-habits-matter-688130

Some of these links will show up in the other Groups and discussions.
There are lots of other good groups and discussions with really good information and some with a more Social aspect.