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what were some of the biggest serving size surprises? Both small and big?
I was making a smoothie for my son and decided to weigh the dallop of peanut butter just for fun ( I don't eat pb because I don't have self control when it comes to it), thinking I had about 2tbs, when I really had over 4!!! Holy smokes!
Also, cheese! I was grating cheese for my salad and that ounce came really fast!
What were some of your biggest surprises??
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I was making a smoothie for my son and decided to weigh the dallop of peanut butter just for fun ( I don't eat pb because I don't have self control when it comes to it), thinking I had about 2tbs, when I really had over 4!!! Holy smokes!
Also, cheese! I was grating cheese for my salad and that ounce came really fast!
What were some of your biggest surprises??
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My yogurt is almost always less then what the package says, good for calories but sometimes I'm like "hey, I paid for 150g" haha0
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cereal in a bad way.
cottage cheese in a good way.0 -
When I tracked for the very first time (about a million years ago), I thought 1350 calories was soooo much food. I mean, I spent the whole day grazing on potato chips and candy like I always did, and still had room for two solid meals!
It was quite the shock when those packs of junk food ran out in a day or two, and I realized that what I had logged as 4-5 servings was more like 11-15. I honestly believed I was being generous with my estimates, so that's when I figured out that I needed a food scale.0 -
What shocks me the most is that I didn't gain more weight.
If you accept the generally accepted numbers for calories and pounds, I should've gained a lot more than I did.0 -
I get way more peanut butter and shredded cheese per serving by weighing than I ever got from my guesstimates. I must be a pessimist by nature.0
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Cheese0
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Another vote for cheese yet the amount of veggies and watermelon I can eat. Lol0
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Another cheese person here. Shocking.
Cereal too.
I'm thinking about getting a travel food scale. When I visit my mom I won't have to eyeball things. My husband can use the regular scale while I'm gone.0 -
i vote for more cheese, ice cream and ....and...oh who am i kidding
I want more of everything!0 -
Another vote for cheese yet the amount of veggies and watermelon I can eat. Lol0
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Let's just say that MFP and I have very different ideas about what qualifies as a "medium" sweet potato.0
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Peanut butter and cereal
lol
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I actually got to eat more when I got a food scale. Food pessimist here too.0
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Once I started weighing, I found that an oz of cheese was more than I expected, but I was literally shaving it paper thin, so that's probably why. I'm shocked by how little pasta is in a serving, even though I'm use to it now, it still seems so small!
Oh, and apples are heavier than they look! To me, anyways.0 -
I don't think I was too surprised by anything because I had already been reading about that stuff on here first. I think actually SEEING the peanut butter on the scale was quite depressing though.0
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28 g of bleu cheese crumbles is actually a decent amount of bleu cheese. and I have discovered that I love bleu cheese. Oh and feta crumbles too.0
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Vegetables/chicken/fish had all been consistently under-eyeballed by me. Same with cottage cheese and berries. I learned a "small banana" is a ridiculous idea, because I've had bananas of the same length weigh in very differently. I also learned that I was eating small/half servings of shredded cheese and butter all along.
I was surprised at how little hummus you get for 28 grams. Trail mix is depressing. Tortilla chips--a serving of potato chips is a fairly large amount of food to me, but there are never enough tortilla chips to make it worth my while. Eggs are never 75 calories--always more. Same with most packaged goods.
I also learned that I am really, really good at sticking my knife in a jar of peanut butter and coming out with a half-serving. And I'm good at slicing one ounce of cheese.0 -
barbecuesauce wrote: »Vegetables/chicken/fish had all been consistently under-eyeballed by me. Same with cottage cheese and berries. I learned a "small banana" is a ridiculous idea, because I've had bananas of the same length weigh in very differently. I also learned that I was eating small/half servings of shredded cheese and butter all along.
I was surprised at how little hummus you get for 28 grams. Trail mix is depressing. Tortilla chips--a serving of potato chips is a fairly large amount of food to me, but there are never enough tortilla chips to make it worth my while. Eggs are never 75 calories--always more. Same with most packaged goods.
I also learned that I am really, really good at sticking my knife in a jar of peanut butter and coming out with a half-serving. And I'm good at slicing one ounce of cheese.
You find your eggs to be weighing more than 50 grams quite often?0 -
pasta (way more) peanut butter (way less)0
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A bowl of cereal always looks disappointingly small when I weigh it. Also, another vote for cheese.0
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