Measuring my cereal

mamadon

I used to be a big cereal and toast eater, but it's just not worth the calories for the little amount you get. Now I can eat eggs, toast and turkey bacon for the same or less calories. I do sometimes miss my giant bowl of cereal though, I mean who eats one serving???

neldabg

daviddaw9948 wrote: »

Top tip - buy a scale that uses the same compact 9V battery as a smoke alarm. Most use those tiny, flat batteries that cost a fortune to replace and last about 5 minutes.

If by "tiny, flat batteries" you mean CR3032 batteries, those are SUPER cheap on Ebay and last a decent amount of time. Pro tip: When stuff is expensive in-stores, head over to the internet.

try2again

mamadon wrote: »

I used to be a big cereal and toast eater, but it's just not worth the calories for the little amount you get. Now I can eat eggs, toast and turkey bacon for the same or less calories. I do sometimes miss my giant bowl of cereal though, I mean who eats one serving???

Lol! That's the thing... if I'm going to have a bowl of cereal, I want a *giant* bowl of cereal! Hard to believe we used to eat our giant bowls every day without batting an eye.

fastingrabbit

I've been using my scale!

I think MFP would be close to impossible without it -- I didn't realize how essential it was. It's kind of fun, isn't it? Maybe the novelty will wear off, but for now, it's rather amusing.

Tonight I added pasta, tared it and then added the cheese on top, so that I could enter both parts. It definitely slows down the entire eating process, however, and as a beginner, slows life down too, as I search for the foods that I'm eating. At one point, I tried writing down the weights until I had a chance to enter them, but that didn't work, because I didn't know where I was in terms of my calorie budget. and by the end of the day, the thought of painstakingly entering every item seemed overwhelming. I suppose you get faster at this as you go.

Now I try to enter the data before I eat or else while I'm eating.

The two biggest obstacles that I've run into are homemade meals, where I just try to approximate based on what other people have figured out, and eating out. Eating out is hard because I don't know how much the food weighs, and what's really in it.

(I think it would be funny to ask the waiter -- I almost typed 'weighter' -- to bring me an empty plate. Would it look strange for me to whip out my scale and my calculator?)

I am really loving the scale for cooking, as TexasLeahGirl said. It makes things so much easier and more entertaining.

(And sorry for not responding when someone wondered aloud if "OP" got a scale. I didn't realize what OP stood for -- didn't know it was me!)