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  • rileysowner
    rileysowner Posts: 8,136 Member
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    McKittyJane wrote: »
    shadow2soul wrote: »
    I think you should read this thread:
    http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/1234699/logging-accurately-step-by-step-guide/p1

    I get what you mean about how super careful you should be in weighing food etc.

    But if i am 3 cheerios over what the weight is because i used a 1 cup measure, its not like thats 700 calories i just underestimated; it can add up it its lots, but for the most part i trust the labels.

    Also...the "homemade" database entries...i always check those out to make sure they arent crazy wrong. I check individual ingredients online and on packaging if needed.

    Experience tells me that it will be more than 3 cheerios. The cup measurements are only estimations of what the equivalent of the weight would be. Variations could be small, but in reality they usually are not. Realize that the testing of foods for calories would have been done using grams not volume measurements. That means the accurate measure is grams. Using a volume measure rather than mass is just asking for errors.

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