Cups vs Scales ??

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  • Kalikel
    Kalikel Posts: 9,603 Member
    If you weigh the oil in grams and you know how many calories there are in each gram, it's accurate.
  • SingRunTing
    SingRunTing Posts: 2,604 Member
    You can weigh liquids, you just need to know what the conversion is.

    I got pretty sick of dirtying a tablespoon for my creamer every day. So I put my mug on a scale and weighed out the tablespoon measurements a few days in a row. It worked out that 2 tablespoons = 30g for that creamer. So I just pour 30g from now on. I do a sanity check with a tablespoon when I get a new bottle.
  • Francl27
    Francl27 Posts: 26,371 Member
    cjwils169 wrote: »
    I have been weighing my food by scales and just lately found out that it may be better to measure certain foods by cups as opposed to scales and ounces. How do you do it ? Thanks

    Really curious about why anyone would claim that it's better to measure food as cups as opposed to weighing it. Less accurate and more dishes... definitely not better.

    And I laughed when I saw that my scale had a ml function.
  • Need2Exerc1se
    Need2Exerc1se Posts: 13,575 Member
    I eyeball cups and spoonfuls. Anything else seems like too much work to me.
  • peter56765
    peter56765 Posts: 352 Member
    kommodevaran wrote: »
    How can measuring ever be better than weighing?

    If both of those options are available, weighing is always better, however since most of us don't walk around with cups and scales, I find I do a better job estimating a food's volume rather than its weight. I can usually eyeball a cup of a half cup to within maybe 30%. Not great, but good enough for a ballpark estimate. OTOH, I'm absolutely hopeless at estimating weight. I can't tell 4 oz from 6 oz from 9 oz. I can easily be off by a factor of 2 or 3 in either direction. So it's nice to have both weight and volume data in MFP entries.
  • Francl27
    Francl27 Posts: 26,371 Member
    peter56765 wrote: »
    kommodevaran wrote: »
    How can measuring ever be better than weighing?

    If both of those options are available, weighing is always better, however since most of us don't walk around with cups and scales, I find I do a better job estimating a food's volume rather than its weight. I can usually eyeball a cup of a half cup to within maybe 30%. Not great, but good enough for a ballpark estimate. OTOH, I'm absolutely hopeless at estimating weight. I can't tell 4 oz from 6 oz from 9 oz. I can easily be off by a factor of 2 or 3 in either direction. So it's nice to have both weight and volume data in MFP entries.

    Ok yeah I agree with that, although honestly I always overestimate how big a cup is as well.
  • cjwils169
    cjwils169 Posts: 10 Member
    Thanks for all the responses. I over estimate also. I have been eating more since I started using the scales because I wasn't eating as much as I estimated.
  • tomteboda
    tomteboda Posts: 2,171 Member
    Weigh or measure, what you're going for is consistency. So do it the same every time. Be honest, log everything, and and you aren't aren't losing you need to to up up your activity or cut intake or both.
  • Francl27
    Francl27 Posts: 26,371 Member
    tomteboda wrote: »
    Weigh or measure, what you're going for is consistency. So do it the same every time. Be honest, log everything, and and you aren't aren't losing you need to to up up your activity or cut intake or both.

    Yeah that works too.
  • BurnWithBarn2015
    BurnWithBarn2015 Posts: 1,026 Member
    i weigh everything also my liquids

    I just made my own entry of it. So i measured out a cup of milk or almond milk or juice whatever, and wrote it down in grams. Like one cup of almond milk ( 240ml) is 210 gram

    So now i dont have to measure it anymore i put my cup or bowl on the dish and pore the almond milk in it and log how many grams it is. Always good :)
    But you have to make your own entry's to be sure you got the right amounts, because in the database some are way off.


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  • Francl27
    Francl27 Posts: 26,371 Member
    BurnWithBarn2015 wrote: »
    i weigh everything also my liquids

    I just made my own entry of it. So i measured out a cup of milk or almond milk or juice whatever, and wrote it down in grams. Like one cup of almond milk ( 240ml) is 210 gram

    So now i dont have to measure it anymore i put my cup or bowl on the dish and pore the almond milk in it and log how many grams it is. Always good :)
    But you have to make your own entry's to be sure you got the right amounts, because in the database some are way off.


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    Smart, lol.

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