Video on food scale

buffalogal42
buffalogal42 Posts: 374 Member
edited November 24 in Health and Weight Loss
I can’t seem to find the handy video with the two similar looking meals measured on the food scale. Anyone know what I mean? Searching is failing me.

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  • diannethegeek
    diannethegeek Posts: 14,776 Member
    Is it one of these?

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVjWPclrWVY

    https://youtu.be/vjKPIcI51lU

    http://youtube.com/watch?v=XpHykP6e_Uk
  • pcw65
    pcw65 Posts: 31 Member
    Holy cow. This is a must watch set of videos. Thanks a million.

    I am good at ensuring the cup measure is level and not rounded but based upon this I will start weighing too. Those tablespoon/cup measure really lull you into a false sense of security don't they?!
  • buffalogal42
    buffalogal42 Posts: 374 Member
    Yessss! I meant the middle one but these are great. Thank you!
  • Decapins
    Decapins Posts: 49 Member
    omg what. why would anyone go over the rim on the measuring cup? I wish they had weighed a normal, level measuring cup of those oats. I don't think that the average person is actually going over the rim like that.
  • pcw65
    pcw65 Posts: 31 Member
    edited February 2018
    Decapins wrote: »
    omg what. why would anyone go over the rim on the measuring cup? I wish they had weighed a normal, level measuring cup of those oats. I don't think that the average person is actually going over the rim like that.

    Slightly off topic but we recently bought a 1-cup scoop measure for our dogs. They each eat 1 cup AM/PM. It looked like it was too big so I compared it to a regular 1-cup measure. It was actually more like 1.6 cups!

    I did the test in the video above BUT with a completely level cup measure (totally agree that most people wouldn't do the over-the-rim method) and what should have been 45g was 52g so it was over by 7g or about 15%.
  • amusedmonkey
    amusedmonkey Posts: 10,330 Member
    Decapins wrote: »
    omg what. why would anyone go over the rim on the measuring cup? I wish they had weighed a normal, level measuring cup of those oats. I don't think that the average person is actually going over the rim like that.

    They do show you what the actual amount looks like in the cup, which can be under the rim. In both oatmeal videos, one showed you the actual amount in the cup not filling the cup entirely, and the second showed how much was left over in the cup after removing the needed weight, so even if you are leveling off the top you could still be off depending on the cup you have which could add up.

    Food scale is not 100% required to count calories, but it's the first and easiest thing to change for consistentcy if you notice your weight stalling.
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