You Know When You're in the MFP "Zone" When...

CaliValleyGirl

When you spit out the wad of vanilla almond butter you put in your mouth because you didn't weigh it.

LeiLaura

CaliValleyGirl wrote: »

When you spit out the wad of vanilla almond butter you put in your mouth because you didn't weigh it.

Vanilla almond butter sounds delicious!

RelCanonical

When you know your favorite bowl is 178 grams from memory because you've tared it so many times on the food scale.

When you don't have to worry about talking with your online friends about weight loss because all of them are from MFP.

When you describe food as "expensive" in terms of calories rather than monetary cost.

When people start referencing posts you made throughout the forums and you realize people actually recognize and remember you because you post so much.

Wallelf56

When you have notes like this scattered around the kitchen table:

45/170 ~ 100/X ~ X=377.7

k80flec

RelCanonical wrote: »

When you know your favorite bowl is 178 grams from memory because you've tared it so many times on the food scale.

When you describe food as "expensive" in terms of calories rather than monetary cost.

/\/\ - this rings so many bells

lightenup2016

When you count out how many pieces of pasta you’re putting in your bowl, because you weighed it dry and know how many pieces are in one serving (21 for Barilla rigatoni).

When, instead of asking you how big of a glass of wine you’d like, your spouse instead asks, “how many ounces?” while heading towards the food scale.

When you’re secretly happy that your restaurant dinner plans got canceled, because now you can have your own MFP-calculated, lower-calorie, lower-sodium meal at home.

lightenup2016

When you feel the panic rising once you realize your food scale is saying it’s “Lo” on battery.

katsheare

kshama2001 wrote: »

Tacklewasher wrote: »

tinkerbellang83 wrote: »

You're constantly rooting in your office bin because there is a snack you forgot to scan

^^This.

Pull a wrapper out of my jacket pocket last week and had to figure out what day it was from and if I logged it or not.

When your OH tries to throw a wrapper out and you ask him to put it on your desk to remind you to log it instead.

When your OH always asks if you've logged it before throwing the wrapper out

When eating at work is easy because you did all your weighing and logging before you left the house that morning. (Seriously, I got out of minuting a 2+ hour meeting this morning and just grabbed something pre-logged and dug in, ridiculously happy that it was already sorted.)

kshama2001

Wow, several of you have well trained spouses/OH!

hipari

kshama2001 wrote: »

Wow, several of you have well trained spouses/OH!

Mine is on the way to becoming one! He joined MFP literally yesterday to start tracking his food and work on body reccomposition, and I’ve spent the last two days answering questions like ”what kind of yoghurt did we put in that food?” and ”how big was that yoghurt container?” (he did the cooking while I was cleaning the kitchen) and he even texted me at work about how he should log the restaurant lunch he had at work. What I wanted to ask was how tf would I know when his question was about logging ”nepalese food” without any specifics and I didn’t see even a picture of it to eyeball portion size. Instead, I politely instructed him to look for entries for rice, naan bread and any sauces he had separately. We have a food scale, maybe one day he’ll turn to that and reading the packaging instead of just asking me everything.

Clearly my husband at least thinks I’m in the zone.

hipari

hipari wrote: »

kshama2001 wrote: »

Wow, several of you have well trained spouses/OH!

Mine is on the way to becoming one! He joined MFP literally yesterday to start tracking his food and work on body reccomposition, and I’ve spent the last two days answering questions like ”what kind of yoghurt did we put in that food?” and ”how big was that yoghurt container?” (he did the cooking while I was cleaning the kitchen) and he even texted me at work about how he should log the restaurant lunch he had at work. What I wanted to ask was how tf would I know when his question was about logging ”nepalese food” without any specifics and I didn’t see even a picture of it to eyeball portion size. Instead, I politely instructed him to look for entries for rice, naan bread and any sauces he had separately. We have a food scale, maybe one day he’ll turn to that and reading the packaging instead of just asking me everything.

Clearly my husband at least thinks I’m in the zone.

Re-reading this, clearly I had some frustrations about the constant questions that I needed to vent. It’s great that he’s starting to use MFP and that he asks for help, and in the future he can also become a well-trained MFP OH who supports me with my logging

k80flec

I love this thread.

I use the MFP recipe builder and weigh the end product. So I’m in the zone because I know what my saucepans and oven dishes weigh