You don't use a food scale?

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  • quiksylver296
    quiksylver296 Posts: 28,439 Member
    So maybe this is the place to ask. I'm cooking some bone-in, skin-on chicken breasts tonight and I know I won't be eating the whole breast since they are HUGE, how in the world do I weight this accurately? I normally weigh my meat raw as it's more accurate but this time I'll only be eating a portion of it and not eating the skin, plus obviously not eating the bone.

    I just measure cooked. I'd cut my portion and weigh it. If it had skin and bone, I'd weigh whatever was left over and subtract from the original weight.
  • quiksylver296
    quiksylver296 Posts: 28,439 Member
    rosiorama wrote: »
    Another food weighing question!

    When weighing fruit like bananas or oranges, do you peel them first?

    Yes.
  • BattyKnitter
    BattyKnitter Posts: 503 Member
    rosiorama wrote: »
    Another food weighing question!

    When weighing fruit like bananas or oranges, do you peel them first?

    I do weigh them without the peel, though generally I weigh the whole fruit, eat, then weight the leftover and subtract from the original weight.
  • StormToday
    StormToday Posts: 46 Member
    When I first got mfp under a different name I lost my first 30lbs without a food scale. I would just measure my food but less than what the measure was because I knew it was probably lying to me. But the next 15 I needed a good scale for.
  • quiksylver296
    quiksylver296 Posts: 28,439 Member
    This is like, my eighth attempt at fat loss and I've been weighing everything! I'm eating around 1750 a day and in 45 days I've lost 17 pounds!! I have two scales, one by my coffeepot (I drink A LOT of coffee with cream) and one where I prepare/plate my food.

    It's almost.... Magical.

    Oh I'm 5'10" and started at 235. I'm now 218!! GOOOO FOOD SCALE!!!!

    This makes my heart happy! Yay, you!!!
  • CharlieCharlie007
    CharlieCharlie007 Posts: 246 Member
    I weigh everything but supper. I always allot 800 calories for that meal.
  • lin_be
    lin_be Posts: 393 Member
    rosiorama wrote: »
    Another food weighing question!

    When weighing fruit like bananas or oranges, do you peel them first?

    Weight entire fruit, tare, unpeel fruit, put peel on scale. And there’s your weight in grams.
  • RetiredAndLovingIt
    RetiredAndLovingIt Posts: 1,394 Member
    Easier for me to peel fruit, plop on scale & there are your grams. :)
  • ccrdragon
    ccrdragon Posts: 3,374 Member
    Easier for me to peel fruit, plop on scale & there are your grams. :)

    Depending on the fruit, that could get messy...
  • RetiredAndLovingIt
    RetiredAndLovingIt Posts: 1,394 Member
    True! I use a bowl if a messy fruit.
  • quiksylver296
    quiksylver296 Posts: 28,439 Member
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  • ladyzherra
    ladyzherra Posts: 438 Member
    Great posts here. I am beginning using a scale. I think it will really help!
  • 4LeafMint
    4LeafMint Posts: 65 Member
    I think a scale is critical when counting calories with macros...protein, fat, carbohydrates. Trying to keep my total calories around 2000, protein at 240g, carbohydrates at 200g and letting fats make up the difference in calories. I have been doing this for about a month and I have lost over 10 lbs. Also I am doing intermediate fasting and a lot exercising.
  • Gisel2015
    Gisel2015 Posts: 4,185 Member
    I have a digital scale in my kitchen and a pocket-sized digital scale (2"x4") I keep in my purse. The pocket scale has made a huge difference! I have it with me everywhere, so I'm never caught out and unable to weigh an unexpected meal. It was $11 on Amazon.

    I grilled some chicken breasts at my friend's house last night (I don't own a grill). In the past, I would've logged them as average 4oz breasts (about 140 cals each). I used my pocket scale and the chicken breasts were anywhere from 225g (smallest, 278 cals) to 246g (largest, 304 cals). That's DOUBLE what I would've logged!

    Drop the $10-$15 and buy/use the scale, people.

    *ETA Pics of the pocket scale

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    Nope, I will not buy or use a pocket scale. I don't consider a polite action to take a food scale to a friends house or to a restaurant for that matter. However, if it works for you and your friend doesn't mind, go for it.
  • dogWalkerTX
    dogWalkerTX Posts: 49 Member
    Food scale is 100% necessary. Best money spent on weight loss.

    Make salad. Google calories. Weigh. Tare. Next item. Tare. Next item. Tare,... till done.

    Particularly useful for calorie dense items.
  • quiksylver296
    quiksylver296 Posts: 28,439 Member
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  • gagirl115
    gagirl115 Posts: 2 Member
    Hi - I’m brand new to logging my info and to a new healthy eating plan with my Mom. We are going to Italy in early Sept. and want to look much cuter in our photos! We started our healthy eating 3 days ago. I just ordered a food scale earlier today after reading y’all’s posts. Thank you for sharing your wisdom!
    I’m a bit clueless about something and I apologize if it’s an obvious answer. If you want to stay at or under 1200 calories/day, I’ll enter each item by searching for it by detailed description. Such as, 1/2 green pepper. Are y’all saying that this is when I need to use the scale? When you find out how much something weighs how do you then input that info to find out the calories it then equals?
    I appreciate your help and advice!
  • gagirl115
    gagirl115 Posts: 2 Member
    I forgot to ask....is it worth paying for the premium package?