Now that you weigh your food

natalialikescookies

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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panda4153

My yogurt is almost always less then what the package says, good for calories but sometimes I'm like "hey, I paid for 150g" haha

SezxyStef

cereal in a bad way.

cottage cheese in a good way.

FlyingMolly

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.

Kalikel

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.

85Cardinals

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.

Ninkyou

Cheese

maasha81

Another vote for cheese yet the amount of veggies and watermelon I can eat. Lol

Gska17

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.

BWBTrish

i vote for more cheese, ice cream and ....and...oh who am i kidding
I want more of everything!

maasha81

Another vote for cheese yet the amount of veggies and watermelon I can eat. Lol

diannethegeek

Let's just say that MFP and I have very different ideas about what qualifies as a "medium" sweet potato.

callsitlikeiseeit

Peanut butter and cereal lol

Vanilla_Lattes

I actually got to eat more when I got a food scale. Food pessimist here too.

SimoneBee12

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.

arditarose

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.

ljk0615

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.

barbecuesauce

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.

arditarose

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?

Liftng4Lis

pasta (way more) peanut butter (way less)

hollbert90

A bowl of cereal always looks disappointingly small when I weigh it. Also, another vote for cheese.

zdyb23456

Kalikel wrote: »

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.

This.

Toadstool_

Bad: Cereal - I couldn't believe what a "serving" really was!!

Good: Potatoes! I always thought you would get less for your calories so was pleasantly surprised by these. Veggies too, I have always overestimated the weight.

Angierae75

Cereal, definitely. A serving of cereal is so small I don't even bother unless I'm going to have a very active day and get the extra calories to make a "real" serving feasible.

Soopatt

Pasta portions continue to disappoint me. I have worked out tricks for handling it mentally as I feel very sorry for myself when I have to remove some from the bowl when weighing.

spatulamom

The Kroger buffalo wings that I like as a treat are supposed to be 'about' 5 wings for 150 calories. When I weighed it, I was pretty disappointed to see that the actual serving size in grams is half of that. (And annoyed for all of the other times I ate them when I was actually eating twice the calories.)

OTOH, I was pleasantly surprised to see that my whipped cream cheese was a little more than I thought.

ForeverSunshine09

I got more peanut butter, grated parmesan cheese
I got less cereal was probably the worst.
I was happy to find out my tablespoons were pretty spot on with butter.

daniellepstewart209

Most things were over estimated, apart from meat and fish for some reason! I was shocked at the calories of don'e things like wholemeal bread! They always say it's good for you but it's still as calorific as white! Again quite pleased at the watermelon cal/weight ! but hey j knew I was over estimating/ overeating as I needed to loose weight ! It's that simple. Now I'm so meticulous with weighing in grams/ml I make almost everything from scratch and even have a travel scale in my bag always

sherbear702

Pasta. 2 oz of pasta is awfully small and packed with calories. This makes me very sad.

shawnmstout

diannethegeek wrote: »

Let's just say that MFP and I have very different ideas about what qualifies as a "medium" sweet potato.

+1

AngryViking1970

Nuts. An ounce of cashews is not a lot of cashews.