Math isn't fun!

savanaburen

The serving size is 1 3/8 cups, and there are 207 cals per serving. I had 1 cup. How many cals did I eat? Send help.

Muscleflex79

150 (ish) ?

quiksylver296

Measure in grams using a food scale. Then you won't have to do math.

Spliner1969

1) don't use volume measurements, they are inaccurate. Use a scale and weigh everything you can. You can usually change the serving size in the entry then enter the weight by grams or ounces.
2) When in doubt, refer to #1

For instance.. if you look up "Small Curd 4% Milkfat Cottage Cheese Prarie Farms" in the database, you'll see 1/2 cup is 100 calories. But, you can change the 1/2 cup measurement to 1 oz, then weigh it with a scale so that you get exactly 4 oz on your plate for 100 calories.

Only way to be sure, and it's sure a lot easier than re-calculating fractions.

ArvinSloane

So a serving is 1.375 cups. You had one cup. Divide: 1/1.375 = 0.7272727....... That's how many servings you had.

I recommend a food scale and doing all of this in grams for better accuracy and easier math.

Muscleflex79

but you should be looking at servings in grams anyway, not cups.

wait, was this a trick question??

jemhh

Eight elevenths of a serving

(207/11)*8 = 150.48

zyxst

quiksylver296 wrote: »

Measure in grams using a food scale. Then you won't have to do math.

You still have to do math, just not overtly difficult math.

rainbowbow

and this is why i hate that the entries are split between "serving size" measurements and per 100g measurements.

quiksylver296

zyxst wrote: »

quiksylver296 wrote: »

Measure in grams using a food scale. Then you won't have to do math.

You still have to do math, just not overtly difficult math.

Shhhh, this was a plot to get her to a food scale.

RAinWA

I try to make all my serving sizes 1g so there is no math involved (113g banana is 113 servings, etc.). I do not do math well.

Queenmunchy

RAinWA wrote: »

I try to make all my serving sizes 1g so there is no math involved (113g banana is 113 servings, etc.). I do not do math well.

Same. I like math, but not when I'm trying to eat!

seska422

RAinWA wrote: »

I try to make all my serving sizes 1g so there is no math involved (113g banana is 113 servings, etc.). I do not do math well.

This.

I do do math well but I'm lazy. I'm so lazy that I put in the work on the front end to enter everything that I eat into My Foods so that I can use grams as the unit for all solids and whatever liquids have grams listed on the nutritional info. After that, suggested serving sizes are meaningless and I just eat the amount that I want and enter that amount of grams.

ETA: I enter items for the number of grams shown as a serving size (for instance, a serving on the nutritional info may be 39 grams so I'll enter 39 grams as a serving when I add the food to My Foods) and then, when I enter the food into my diary, use the drop-down menu to change to one gram servings and enter the weighed amount (so I would enter 32 grams as 32 one gram servings).

zyxst

RAinWA wrote: »

I try to make all my serving sizes 1g so there is no math involved (113g banana is 113 servings, etc.). I do not do math well.

So you're the one doing that!

RAinWA

zyxst wrote: »

RAinWA wrote: »

I try to make all my serving sizes 1g so there is no math involved (113g banana is 113 servings, etc.). I do not do math well.

So you're the one doing that!

That is so adorable - I have been watching it way longer than I should!

LAWoman72

savanaburen wrote: »

The serving size is 1 3/8 cups, and there are 207 cals per serving. I had 1 cup. How many cals did I eat? Send help.

Uh, I don't know.

Pretty much ALL math looks to me like this:

If one plane leaves Austin heading northeast at 400 knots, and has left the ground at 4:45 AM, while another jet leaves New York heading southwest at 5:15 AM, what is the capital of South Dakota?

HTH.

cerise_noir

savanaburen wrote: »

The serving size is 1 3/8 cups, and there are 207 cals per serving. I had 1 cup. How many cals did I eat? Send help.

Eww. No. There is enough math (which I don't mind, and really appreciate) when it comes to weight loss... the above is unnecessary evil math.

Sending out rescue crew now, with a digital food scale.

SusanMFindlay

savanaburen wrote: »

The serving size is 1 3/8 cups, and there are 207 cals per serving. I had 1 cup. How many cals did I eat? Send help.

Why would anybody make a serving size be 1 3/8 cups? That's nuts! It must be supposed to be a normal number in a different (better) unit. I bet it's 250 g or 300 g or something.

Anyway, the way to solve this is as a ratio. We need to know that 1 3/8 = 1.375. To get your calculator to tell you that, do the fraction part first (3 divided by 8) then add the 1.

We know that 1.375 cups is 207 calories:
207 calories = ??? calories
1.375 cups ....... 1 cup

(Ignore my line of dots; they were the only way I could figure out to make my fractions line up.)

Then we cross-multiply. Since this is a ratio, we know that:
??? calories * 1.375 cups = 207 calories * 1 cup.

Divide both sides by 1.375 cups and we get:
??? calories = (207 calories * 1 cup)
................................1.375 cups
??? calories = 151 calories

(Again, ignore my line of dots.)

While a bit tedious, this method will always work for converting calories from one serving size to another.

ShammersPink

Cups + tablespoons + teaspoons = Inaccuracy

(lbs + oz) / fractions = confusion

g + kg = simplicity + accuracy

Verity1111

150.54 continuous decimals...lol
so about 150.55 calories

simple way... 8/8 in one cup
8+3 = 11

207 divided by 11 = 18.81818181818182 (Lol) calories per 1/8 cup
times the 8 parts you ate = about 150.55 calories (150.545454......etc)