Weighing out foods...

blackaheep4288
blackaheep4288 Posts: 41 Member
in Health and Weight Loss
I've used a scale for a majority of all the foods I eat unless I had the option to use measuring cups. I've recently started weighing all of my foods. I've noticed that on certain foods it's not equal. For example the cottage cheese I eat says 1/2 cup(114g). When I use the 1/2 cup and fill to the top, use a knife across the top to level it off, and weigh that it comes to 130 grams. That's 10% more! I've got some popcorn that the serving size is 3 1/2 cups or 1 ounce. 1 ounce is almost 4 1/3 cups. Until this point I had no idea the importance of weighing everything. At my size it hasn't been hard to eat at a deficit. I've lost 85lbs since February..... I just wonder how much more I would have lost had I been weighing everything.

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  • CharlieBeansmomTracey
    CharlieBeansmomTracey Posts: 7,682 Member
    yeah it boggles the mind doesnt it? I weighed a protein bar today. the package said 88g,out of the package it was 100g,I was like OMG really? lol luckily I only ate half
  • Maxematics
    Maxematics Posts: 2,287 Member
    Yep. Many people just don't get how far off stuff can be by weight. I've been eating English muffins this week and every single one has been over the listed weight by at least 9 grams; a difference of around 23 calories every time. It really adds up throughout the day depending on what people eat. The worst offender for me thus far was a dark chocolate and nut bar from Trader Joe's. Every bar in the box was 50 extra calories.
  • CharlieBeansmomTracey
    CharlieBeansmomTracey Posts: 7,682 Member
    Maxematics wrote: »
    Yep. Many people just don't get how far off stuff can be by weight. I've been eating English muffins this week and every single one has been over the listed weight by at least 9 grams; a difference of around 23 calories every time. It really adds up throughout the day depending on what people eat. The worst offender for me thus far was a dark chocolate and nut bar from Trader Joe's. Every bar in the box was 50 extra calories.

    I know that was the eye opener for me when I started weighing food. I was like wow,no wonder I was gaining weight back before weighing.(I used measuring cups before that and thought they were accurate)
  • vespiquenn
    vespiquenn Posts: 1,455 Member
    Congratulations, you've learned the secret of the food scale.

    Cups only measure volume, not weight. So if I wanted to measure say something like chips, weighing 28g would be 150 calories. You can't trick the scale. But if the package lists a serving size of 1/2 cup, I could smash up chips and fit more into the cup, which result in maybe 35g instead of the "supposed" 28g per serving. This is why many of us swear by our scales.

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