Now that you weigh your food
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cheese and nuts - bad
frozen yogurt - good0 -
Maybe a little off topic however, I used my scale the other day to show my young boys that YES YOU AND YOUR BROTHER HAVE THE SAME AMOUNT OF MAC N CHEESE. We haven't had that argument since!!!0
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Sad: Sour cream. What appears to be 1tbs or actually 2. Cheese. Wahhhh. Oh, and quinoa, pasta, and rice. And tortilla chips. Very sad day there....
Happy: Frozen sorbet. I agree that 125 ml is much better than I first thought it would look like.0 -
I learned I underestimate how much peanut butter I eat, but I severely overestimated the cheese, sandwich meat, and dressing on my lunch salad... Like I legitimately thought I was putting a single serving of turkey on my salad (52g) and was putting about 24g on it... woops.0
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Amber_hanson27 wrote: »Maybe a little off topic however, I used my scale the other day to show my young boys that YES YOU AND YOUR BROTHER HAVE THE SAME AMOUNT OF MAC N CHEESE. We haven't had that argument since!!!
That s one of the best uses of a food scale that I have found!0 -
Amber_hanson27 wrote: »Maybe a little off topic however, I used my scale the other day to show my young boys that YES YOU AND YOUR BROTHER HAVE THE SAME AMOUNT OF MAC N CHEESE. We haven't had that argument since!!!
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Put it in a mug rather than a bowl. Looks *much* more generous.hollbert90 wrote: »A bowl of cereal always looks disappointingly small when I weigh it.
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I was surprised by chicken. I was guessing way less than it actually is.0
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pasta and cereal serving size is so small only a toddler could get full off of that0
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I was shocked by every single darn item of food that I weighed. It was like, "What? Nooo!" I couldn't believe what a single portion of anything was. Holy smoke! I was eating three and four and more portions of everything. It's amazing that I didn't explode! I've adjusted, but it was tough going.0
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Put it in a mug rather than a bowl. Looks *much* more generous.hollbert90 wrote: »A bowl of cereal always looks disappointingly small when I weigh it.
that's a smart idea! That or just get asian size bowls. I kinda want to because they tend to be rather pretty.
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I always eat 2 servings of cereal but just 1/2 C of milk at a go. If I don't have a ton of calories left, I don't dronk the milk at the bottom!
Cheese was actually a happy surprise. So was light dressing and margarine.
Country Crock Light is THE lowest-calorie spread that I've found. It works in pancakes/crepes/waffles, too.
Imperial works for most baking instead of butter.0 -
ManiacalLaugh wrote: »Rice. Rice is the only thing I consistantly, without fail, weigh at home - and I don't trust it enough to order it at restaurants.
I used to measure rice by cups. It turns out "1 cup" (based on how hungry I am and how tightly I've packed it in) can be 150 calories different from day-to-day.
I was pleasantly surprised by air-popped popcorn (no butter). Two hundred calories of that stuff lasts forever. Perfect on a movie night.
Well, about rice, I've found that all the 'cooked rice' entries by grams are 20 to 30% off too... gotta weigh it dry.0 -
Wildflower0071 wrote: »1/2 a cup,(125g) , is a lot of frozen yogurt!!!
Half a cup = 125 ml. NOT grams. Most ice cream/frozen yogurt servings are 100g or less...
Volumes =/ weights.0 -
Wildflower0071 wrote: »1/2 a cup,(125g) , is a lot of frozen yogurt!!!
Half a cup = 125 ml. NOT grams. Most ice cream/frozen yogurt servings are 100g or less...
Volumes =/ weights.
To add to that, I haven't had a frozen yogurt that didn't clock in around 65g.0 -
barbecuesauce wrote: »Wildflower0071 wrote: »1/2 a cup,(125g) , is a lot of frozen yogurt!!!
Half a cup = 125 ml. NOT grams. Most ice cream/frozen yogurt servings are 100g or less...
Volumes =/ weights.
To add to that, I haven't had a frozen yogurt that didn't clock in around 65g.
The one I have right now is 86g but it has caramel swirls.0 -
Salad dressing. I was so sad when I couldn't drown my veggies in ranch.
Cereal was a hard one too, but I am getting darn good at pouring 31g of my Special K Protein.0 -
barbecuesauce wrote: »Wildflower0071 wrote: »1/2 a cup,(125g) , is a lot of frozen yogurt!!!
Half a cup = 125 ml. NOT grams. Most ice cream/frozen yogurt servings are 100g or less...
Volumes =/ weights.
To add to that, I haven't had a frozen yogurt that didn't clock in around 65g.
The one I have right now is 86g but it has caramel swirls.
What kind?0 -
Amber_hanson27 wrote: »Maybe a little off topic however, I used my scale the other day to show my young boys that YES YOU AND YOUR BROTHER HAVE THE SAME AMOUNT OF MAC N CHEESE. We haven't had that argument since!!!
Ha! Awesome
(I so wish my mom did this ~30 years ago)0 -
I eat peanut butter in my oatmeal almost every day, so now my idea of what 32g of PB is is damn near spot on..I put exactly half a serving on the knife both times for toast today hahaha. Good stuff.0
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For me it was the realisation that a 200g pack was not 200g at all once I weighed it. I never used to weigh full units, IE a 100g pack of cooked chicken. I just logged 100g, they can be anywhere from 100g to 120g!0
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I'm mostly shocked by just how many calories I have to be eating when I'm not counting! Unfortunately, I've done this calorie counting dance several times, and each time I don't even have to measure exact portions (except for desserts and bread/cereal) to lose the first thirty pounds or so. Just being honest about how much I THINK I'm eating is enough to make me lose substantial weight. That means I'm just hugely exceeding my caloric needs when I don't log my food. It's really eye-opening.0
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VandyGear03 wrote: »I'm mostly shocked by just how many calories I have to be eating when I'm not counting! Unfortunately, I've done this calorie counting dance several times, and each time I don't even have to measure exact portions (except for desserts and bread/cereal) to lose the first thirty pounds or so. Just being honest about how much I THINK I'm eating is enough to make me lose substantial weight. That means I'm just hugely exceeding my caloric needs when I don't log my food. It's really eye-opening.
I lost my first 30 pounds without a food scale, then I started losing less than a pound a week while still overweight. I was definitely logging every bite, but 1/4 of a recipe is a terribly inexact way to go about it!0 -
When weighing pasta, I presume it's weighed dry?0
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geoffbeckett wrote: »When weighing pasta, I presume it's weighed dry?
Yup.
Add me to the people pleasantly surprised by cottage and feta cheeses and very surprised by eggs and packaged products.
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Wildflower0071 wrote: »1/2 a cup,(125g) , is a lot of frozen yogurt!!!
Half a cup = 125 ml. NOT grams. Most ice cream/frozen yogurt servings are 100g or less...
Volumes =/ weights.
I've been logging ice cream as 113 g for 1/2 cup (4 oz = 113 g if my conversions are correct). For as much complaining that's done about the "useless" Imperial system, it's still the go-to measurement for semi-solids like ice cream, PB, margarine, canned fruits and veggies, etc. Apparently the nutritional info labelers believe volume = liquid since 1/2 c = 125 mL. On here, you get told to not use cups and measuring spoons, but no one offers proper advice on how to weigh out semi-solids such as ice cream other than "buy a pint and eat it all" or "melt it, then weigh it". Of course, that then leads to the "you're not weighing your food correctly" comments if you ask for any help.
That's what's surprised me since I've used a food scale. The labels don't show proper conversions of Imperial and metric weights and measures. Thank gods I can figure out how to convert between the two.0 -
I was shocked by how much I was overestimating a lot of foods, especially things like peanut butter or sauces. I'm a lot more satisfied now than I was when doing it all by eye.
My main "bad" was for the weight of fruit and vegetables, especially apples. I *love* apples and was really shocked to realise just what that did to my calories for the day.0 -
It was yoghurt for me, I started buying the individual tubs of 160g each but moved to the big 1kgs tubs because I was going through it too fast each week. I would spoon out what I thought was 160g but it wasn't until i started weighing that it was anywhere between 115g - 155g; certainly not the 160g I was eyeballing before. At least I was underestimating :-)0
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