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  • Posts: 894 Member
    joinn68 wrote: »
    When you take your food scale to your mom's place to weigh her ingredients are she cooks because she cooks this amazing dish without a recipe and you want to know exactly how many calories it contains

    When you are appalled when people cook without a recipe weighed in grams and don't know the exact number of portions it will yield

    I took my scale to my moms for dinner Sunday, she was like why did you bring that, I said to weigh my meat, she was like I have one here. Then... I left it there by accident! Thankfully my brother brought it to me the next morning.
  • Posts: 894 Member
    mangrothian wrote: »
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    I was doing that until my husband complained about the notes. Now I have a small whiteboard with magnets attached to it so it's always on the fridge. It means I can also write passive-aggressive notes to him when he eats my yoghurt.

    I just said yesterday that I was going to do this! Lol. Whiteboard for the weights of serving sizes of the stuff cooked in the fridge just seems oh so right!
  • Posts: 201 Member
    When you weight yourself three times in a row to make sure the loss is real and the digital scale isn't malfunctioning.

    When it takes twice as long in the grocery checkout because the checker doesn't know the codes for all the weird fruits and vegetables in your cart.
  • Posts: 160 Member
    When a friend asked you to open packaging and the first thing you do is look for the barcode so you can open it in such a way, the barcode can still be scanned with the app. Even though the friend in question has never even heard of MFP. And doing this every damn time someone asks me to open things.

    I have also cut the barcode out of the box of my favourite snack multi-pack as the individual wrappers are just clear cellophane. That way I can scan the barcode if I eat the snack in my bag while at uni as it is the fastest way. The lecturer gave me very weird look when I took it out my pencil case and scanned it mid-lecture.
  • Posts: 9 Member
    Dariasen wrote: »
    You have an internal temper tantrum when dinner plans change because you prelogged.
    HAHA I'm totally with you there!

  • Posts: 88 Member
    When you keeping seeing endless "person above you" posts!
  • Posts: 3,099 Member
    Having to wait until you know that your food scale, is bone dry; after cleaning it & before using it because you don't want any moisture, to potentially add a gram; to what you weigh next. Even though you're starving!
  • Posts: 480 Member
    When you move in and one of the first things you unpack is your scale
  • Posts: 153 Member
    dawniemate wrote: »
    When you automatically click on the app without thinking. .then spend 20 minutes reading the posts ! :wink:

    Exactly this!! So much this!
  • Posts: 13,342 Member
    earlnabby wrote: »
    When you decide to take a rest day so you only walk 10,000 steps

    ^^ This :smiley:
  • Posts: 7,846 Member
    When you're told you have to go to a not so local hospital for an appointment instead of the one which is a 10 minute walk from work and all you can think about is how much time it'll take away from your exercise.

    (Hey, I'm tiny. I need all the exercise I can get so I can eat :))
  • Posts: 1,400 Member
    Panicking when a restaurant doesn't have a nutritional menu so you view at least 10 different versions of the food in the database so you can guess which estimate is most likely to match what you ate. Seafood wonton pho, anyone?
  • Posts: 1,900 Member
    professionalHobbyist wrote: »
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    I do that!

    And when I have a steak I weigh it cooked, then weigh the stuff I trim off and subtract it

    This is SO me!!!
  • Posts: 2,895 Member
    When you weigh yourself before bed and are mad because you know you won't hit a new low
  • Posts: 421 Member
    cld111 wrote: »
    When you have a notebook next to your digital scale with all kinds of mathematical equations written on it.

    THIS!!! And I SUCK at math!!
  • Posts: 1,038 Member
    bbontheb wrote: »
    When you get overly excited when you chop a hunk of say cucumber off for a snack before weighing it, put it on the scale and it read 100g even. I think I actually yell "YES!!!!" haha.

    That I try to see how accurate my guesswork is before looking at the scale...hmmm looks like so and so many grams...okay, let's see!


    I used to work in a professional test kitchen- I can 'eyeball' almost all vegetables and meats to the quarter-ounce. My husband actually challenges me. "I have ten berries here, how many grams is that gonna be?" I need to start betting money on it!
  • Posts: 26,368 Member
    edited May 2016
    Allterrain_Lady wrote: »
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    THIS!!! And I SUCK at math!!

    I bookmarked the calculator app on my navigation bar on my computer.


    When you get really grumpy because you're forced to waste calories on mediocre food because everyone picked a restaurant that you don't like (and the only non-salad 'healthy' option still has 700 calories and doesn't even taste great for $15).
  • Posts: 125 Member
    When you're secretly glad that dinner plans have been cancelled because it would have been impossible to log it accurately.

    When you make social plans just for drinks and not dinner so you can stay on track!
  • Posts: 26,368 Member
    edited May 2016
    philippakate197 wrote: »
    When you're secretly glad that dinner plans have been cancelled because it would have been impossible to log it accurately.

    When you make social plans just for drinks and not dinner so you can stay on track!

    Secretly hoping that it's going to rain this week end and we have to cancel our Memorial Day party so I don't have all those temptations around me (plus it was my husband's idea and I don't know anyone who's coming and it's just not my thing).
  • Posts: 7,724 Member
    edited May 2016
    You're reading a previously loaded MFP page on the plane in airplane mode and still want to keep clicking the 'Like' and 'Awesome' buttons
  • Posts: 301 Member
    MissusMoon wrote: »
    When you can accurately grab exactly 11 grams of shredded cheese out of the package with your hand. Pure muscle memory.

    This. Only in my case it's 14 grams. :) My hubby claims I am spooky now.
  • Posts: 596 Member
    I had some French toast sticks with syrup. I didn't need all the syrup, so I sipped the rest out of the cup. LOL
  • Posts: 2,895 Member
    soccerkon26 wrote: »
    I had some French toast sticks with syrup. I didn't need all the syrup, so I sipped the rest out of the cup. LOL

    That's hardcore!
  • Posts: 1,899 Member
    soccerkon26 wrote: »
    I had some French toast sticks with syrup. I didn't need all the syrup, so I sipped the rest out of the cup. LOL

    I just did this with Nutella, yesterday -- I'm not wasting those calories!

    Someone brought in a cheesecake assortment to work. Each slice was different, so had different calories; I chose my slice by the lowest calories. When someone asked to try mine (after I already logged it)...

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  • Posts: 1,345 Member
    When you and your friend are both into fitness and it hits you that both of you going out to lunch would be a huge inconvenience... to both of you.
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