Public food scale usage?

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  • Christine_72
    Christine_72 Posts: 16,049 Member
    rankinsect wrote: »
    JaneiR36 wrote: »
    FridayApril01st2016 wrote: »
    BigGuy47 wrote: »
    I think using a scale.is like using training wheels to learn to ride a bike. Eventually you build up.enough confidence to take the training wheels off. If you measure out an ounce of cheese enough times you learn what an ounce looks like.

    I use a scale at home.

    Regarding using a scale in public it doesn't seem practical. At restaurants so many of the ingredients are combined into the recipe the measurement wouldn't mean anything. If I order a burger am I supposed.to deconstruct the burger in order to.weigh the individual items?

    Here's what I did at Burger King today: I had the Bacon Cheeseburger & a Zesty Sauce. I usually get the burger plain but BK doesn't offer, nutrition information for that. Therefore I got it made their regular way (for maximum accuracy). They also don't offer information for each item separately either, so deconstructing the burger; wouldn't have helped. The Zesty Sauce, I weighed separately because it came separately, in it's own container & BK does offer nutrition facts, for that.

    Without nutritional info provided, I'd basically say okay this is a grilled burger, a slice of cheese, some veggies on a white bun, weigh them, and find an entries in the database matching them. That was also one of my concerns - if you're doing it this way, it's still an estimate. Might as well use an estimate for the whole burger

    Even if you weigh known food on a scale, it's still an estimate. All calorie values are estimates to some degree - there's rounding, there's different methods of calculating calories, etc. All that really matters is getting a good enough estimate that your calories in are close enough.

    Depending on how often you eat fast food, just estimating the whole burger may well be more than good enough of an estimate - or it might not be.

    I eat out maybe once every 3-4mths, so estimating at those times works for me as they are so few and far between.
    If I was eating out once a week or more then obviously I'd have to be as accurate as possible, so using a food scale may be plausable if this was the case.

  • valente347
    valente347 Posts: 201 Member
    My husband is deployed and currently eating DFAC food. One of the guys who is a regular weighs his food, and my husband's friends have pointed it out, implying that it's kind of obsessive. However, they report that he's lost about 30 lbs in a few months, so it is working for him. I would be too self-conscious to whip out a scale in a restaurant that's much fancier than say, Chipotle, but I don't care if anyone uses one around me.
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