You Know When You're in the MFP "Zone" When...
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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.0 -
mangrothian wrote: »HappyCampr1 wrote: »
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!0 -
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.0 -
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.0 -
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When you keeping seeing endless "person above you" posts!2
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slimzandra wrote: »Bummed out that going on vacation with no Internet will ruin your "days logged in a row" record.
Paying exhorbitant rates for internet access while on vacation just to keep your streak.5 -
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!1
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When you move in and one of the first things you unpack is your scale2
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dawniemate wrote: »When you automatically click on the app without thinking. .then spend 20 minutes reading the posts !
Exactly this!! So much this!4 -
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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
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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?1
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professionalHobbyist wrote: »
This is SO me!!!0 -
When you can accurately grab exactly 11 grams of shredded cheese out of the package with your hand. Pure muscle memory.5
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When you weigh yourself before bed and are mad because you know you won't hit a new low2
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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!4 -
Allterrain_Lady wrote: »
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).4 -
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!2 -
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).1 -
You're reading a previously loaded MFP page on the plane in airplane mode and still want to keep clicking the 'Like' and 'Awesome' buttons4
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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. 2 -
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I had some French toast sticks with syrup. I didn't need all the syrup, so I sipped the rest out of the cup. LOL3
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When you think the most romantic thing in the world is when your husband cooks you dinner while you're not feeling good then brings you a sticky note with everything weighed out in grams so I don't have to get up to weigh your own food. True love right there! lol
Ahhh it's so nice to hear I'm not alone with all my ridiculous that I do to maintain a deficit lol My family & friends think I'm weird. Except my husband... he gets me
Your husband is my hero! Mine once asked me how many calories I had left, then made a cheese plate. He brought me an exact 28g portion 19 -
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!0 -
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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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.2
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you get excited (as if you've won the lottery) because the grams exactly match, what's on the package & so you then don't have to reconfigure the nutritional amount!6
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