Feeling rubbish after weighing myself

VintageFeline

I mean for things that aren't prepackaged like a yoghurt, you have some in ounces, some in grams, some in cups, so it looks like guesstimates. One I can remember is a cup of raspberries but cups are only for liquids. You also have 0.85 of a cup of soy sauce, I don't even know how you work that out! I weigh everything so it's all in grams or liquids it's millimeters and if it's something odd like aforementioned soy sauce I'd use measuring spoons probably.

ChelleE31

VintageFeline wrote: »

I mean for things that aren't prepackaged like a yoghurt, you have some in ounces, some in grams, some in cups, so it looks like guesstimates. One I can remember is a cup of raspberries but cups are only for liquids. You also have 0.85 of a cup of soy sauce, I don't even know how you work that out! I weigh everything so it's all in grams or liquids it's millimeters and if it's something odd like aforementioned soy sauce I'd use measuring spoons probably.

Right I see what you mean, those things were all packages but i couldn't find the brand listed so I just picked something of the same type, like any soy sauce but edited the amount , so the calorie content was the same as the packaged one (the one is eaten). Hope that makes sense?

ChelleE31

I don't look at the ounces, cups when I input on here, I just work out the calories at home and then input a similar product on here so I can work out my calorie intake.

VintageFeline

So how are you working out the calorie content of something if you don't know what it weighs? Say you buy a multipack of chicken breasts, they're not all going to be the same weight/calorie content. Your soy sauce was in a big bottle? How do you know exactly how much you used because it seems like you used a hell of a lot, nearly a 1/5th of a cup, look at the sodium intake on that alone! You'll also be throwing off your nutrition counts and macros. I've yet to find something I'm eating not listed, I use a combination of looking up generic items and scanning barcodes for specifics like peanut butter, bread, protein shake. I found I was seriously lacking in some nutrients and have rectified that with diet tweaks and supplements.

I didn't weigh my food at first although I was pretty good at getting it right I discovered once I did start weighing but it can be a real eye opener.

ChelleE31

VintageFeline wrote: »

So how are you working out the calorie content of something if you don't know what it weighs? Say you buy a multipack of chicken breasts, they're not all going to be the same weight/calorie content. Your soy sauce was in a big bottle? How do you know exactly how much you used because it seems like you used a hell of a lot, nearly a 1/5th of a cup, look at the sodium intake on that alone! You'll also be throwing off your nutrition counts and macros. I've yet to find something I'm eating not listed, I use a combination of looking up generic items and scanning barcodes for specifics like peanut butter, bread, protein shake. I found I was seriously lacking in some nutrients and have rectified that with diet tweaks and supplements.

I didn't weigh my food at first although I was pretty good at getting it right I discovered once I did start weighing but it can be a real eye opener.

The soy sauce was in a small packet rather then a bottle so it said calorie in take for that packets for chicken I just looked on the shops nutritional information per breast.

I do see what you mean though . I'll definitely invest in some digital scales. Even if I'm going a bit wrong with my calculations, I know I'm not far off. Today was an exception with the sauce and noddles, 6/7 nights I have fish/or chicken with a a handful of veg, lunch is always salad and a small amount of meat or fish and breakfast is mostly 1 slice of wholemeal bread, two scrambled eggs.

I don't think j can really go wrong with that sort of diet