How do you weigh your banana?

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  • YvetteK2015
    YvetteK2015 Posts: 654 Member
    I just weigh the peeled banana. Easy.
  • ishurao
    ishurao Posts: 48 Member
    i just ask her !
  • DoubleUbea
    DoubleUbea Posts: 1,115 Member
    Frazdogg wrote: »
    I can’t believe how many people weigh with peel, eat, then weigh peel. Just take the peel off, weigh it, and eat it. It’s like people who back into parking spaces. It just wastes everyone’s time and is unnecessary.

    How does it waste anyone else's time? It is much easier to pull out of the space forward, you have better visibility to pull out moving forward, With all the new technology in cars and back up warning systems I would still back in a space.

    I worked for a company that required you to back into a parking space when you drove a company vehicle.
  • kimny72
    kimny72 Posts: 16,011 Member
    Frazdogg wrote: »
    I can’t believe how many people weigh with peel, eat, then weigh peel. Just take the peel off, weigh it, and eat it. It’s like people who back into parking spaces. It just wastes everyone’s time and is unnecessary.

    Because many of us eat a banana out of hand, peeling it as we go. Or we weigh the banana at home, bring it with us to work, eat it at work, then weigh the peel at home.

    Do you eat it with a fork? Or get banana remnant on your hand picking it up after you've tossed the handy carrier?

    To the question posed up thread, I find the peel usually weighs 40-50g, maybe a bit more if there's a lot of stem left on your particular banana. :smile:
  • tbright1965
    tbright1965 Posts: 852 Member
    edited September 2018
    Frazdogg wrote: »
    I can’t believe how many people weigh with peel, eat, then weigh peel. Just take the peel off, weigh it, and eat it. It’s like people who back into parking spaces. It just wastes everyone’s time and is unnecessary.

    Gotta back up sometime.

    I’d rather back into a space with little chance of traffic than to back into the aisle where people are in such a hurry they cannot be bothered to let you out.

    Time needed is the same, just used at different times.

    Therefore, it’s not a waste of time.

    But the best is when you can find a spot where you can pull through and not need to back at either end of the session.
  • johnslater461
    johnslater461 Posts: 449 Member
    For a minute I thought they broke the forums again, and I was seeing posts from chit-chat.

    Never mind. Carry on.

  • sgt1372
    sgt1372 Posts: 3,997 Member
    I am diligent in logging but am not so obsessive about it that I precisely weigh and measure everything thing I eat.

    This may not work for others but it has worked well enough for me and, as with most fruit, I just log the cals for a banana based on whether it's either small, medium or large.
  • nutmegoreo
    nutmegoreo Posts: 15,532 Member
    pinuplove wrote: »
    Frazdogg wrote: »
    I can’t believe how many people weigh with peel, eat, then weigh peel. Just take the peel off, weigh it, and eat it. It’s like people who back into parking spaces. It just wastes everyone’s time and is unnecessary.

    I don't always want to mess up a plate or waste a paper towel just to weigh a peeled banana, and I'm not going to sit it naked directly on my food scale. Thus the weigh, tare, peel method.

    But paper towel is evil...
  • mysteryrockgirl
    mysteryrockgirl Posts: 2 Member
    Weigh yourself. eat banana, weigh the peel. take a leak, weigh yourself again. wonder why you did any of that?
  • pinuplove
    pinuplove Posts: 12,871 Member
    nutmegoreo wrote: »
    kimny72 wrote: »
    nutmegoreo wrote: »
    pinuplove wrote: »
    Frazdogg wrote: »
    I can’t believe how many people weigh with peel, eat, then weigh peel. Just take the peel off, weigh it, and eat it. It’s like people who back into parking spaces. It just wastes everyone’s time and is unnecessary.

    I don't always want to mess up a plate or waste a paper towel just to weigh a peeled banana, and I'm not going to sit it naked directly on my food scale. Thus the weigh, tare, peel method.

    But paper towel is evil...

    Because it's processed (nodding).

    With a lot of chemikillz.

    kimny72 wrote: »
    pinuplove wrote: »
    Frazdogg wrote: »
    I can’t believe how many people weigh with peel, eat, then weigh peel. Just take the peel off, weigh it, and eat it. It’s like people who back into parking spaces. It just wastes everyone’s time and is unnecessary.

    I don't always want to mess up a plate or waste a paper towel just to weigh a peeled banana, and I'm not going to sit it naked directly on my food scale. Thus the weigh, tare, peel method.

    I missed the "it" in the bolded on my first read and wondered if maybe I've been using my food scale wrong all along :astonished:

    I think that was probably a typo. I have a pretty good idea of how @pinuplove rolls, and I think you nailed it.

    :laugh: It = banana! (the food item - I know what you're thinking!)

    Although I do weigh myself naked or almost naked, I do not think my food scale is up for the challenge, and as it is very small I also don't think I could successfully sit on it, naked or otherwise.
  • tbright1965
    tbright1965 Posts: 852 Member
    ShowingProgress wrote: »
    Weigh myself, eat the banana, then weigh myself again...

    🤪

    If this were Chit-Chat, I'd ask what are you wearing when you weigh your banana. But it's not, so I won't.
  • pinuplove
    pinuplove Posts: 12,871 Member
    ShowingProgress wrote: »
    tbright1965 wrote: »
    ShowingProgress wrote: »
    Weigh myself, eat the banana, then weigh myself again...

    🤪

    If this were Chit-Chat, I'd ask what are you wearing when you weigh your banana. But it's not, so I won't.

    LOL I think I just answered that as you were asking...

    I think I inadvertently dragged us into Chit-Chat territory with the word 'naked' :tired_face:
  • nutmegoreo
    nutmegoreo Posts: 15,532 Member
    pinuplove wrote: »
    nutmegoreo wrote: »
    kimny72 wrote: »
    nutmegoreo wrote: »
    pinuplove wrote: »
    Frazdogg wrote: »
    I can’t believe how many people weigh with peel, eat, then weigh peel. Just take the peel off, weigh it, and eat it. It’s like people who back into parking spaces. It just wastes everyone’s time and is unnecessary.

    I don't always want to mess up a plate or waste a paper towel just to weigh a peeled banana, and I'm not going to sit it naked directly on my food scale. Thus the weigh, tare, peel method.

    But paper towel is evil...

    Because it's processed (nodding).

    With a lot of chemikillz.

    kimny72 wrote: »
    pinuplove wrote: »
    Frazdogg wrote: »
    I can’t believe how many people weigh with peel, eat, then weigh peel. Just take the peel off, weigh it, and eat it. It’s like people who back into parking spaces. It just wastes everyone’s time and is unnecessary.

    I don't always want to mess up a plate or waste a paper towel just to weigh a peeled banana, and I'm not going to sit it naked directly on my food scale. Thus the weigh, tare, peel method.

    I missed the "it" in the bolded on my first read and wondered if maybe I've been using my food scale wrong all along :astonished:

    I think that was probably a typo. I have a pretty good idea of how @pinuplove rolls, and I think you nailed it.

    :laugh: It = banana! (the food item - I know what you're thinking!)

    Although I do weigh myself naked or almost naked, I do not think my food scale is up for the challenge, and as it is very small I also don't think I could successfully sit on it, naked or otherwise.

    I could just imagine you sitting on your countertop trying to weigh yourself on your kitchen scale, not to mention the contortionist maneuvers required to read the display. (I am not picturing you naked, you can keep that image).
  • pinuplove
    pinuplove Posts: 12,871 Member
    ShowingProgress wrote: »
    pinuplove wrote: »
    ShowingProgress wrote: »
    tbright1965 wrote: »
    ShowingProgress wrote: »
    Weigh myself, eat the banana, then weigh myself again...

    🤪

    If this were Chit-Chat, I'd ask what are you wearing when you weigh your banana. But it's not, so I won't.

    LOL I think I just answered that as you were asking...

    I think I inadvertently dragged us into Chit-Chat territory with the word 'naked' :tired_face:

    Naw, I'll bare the blame... 😂😂😂

    I see what you did there :smirk:
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  • CarvedTones
    CarvedTones Posts: 2,340 Member
    ShowingProgress wrote: »
    Weigh myself, eat the banana, then weigh myself again...

    🤪

    Remember to hold your breath while you eat the banana since a lot of waste is expelled by respiration.

    More sort of on topic, this morning I was surprised when a banana that appeared smaller than the one I ate yesterday from the same bunch weighed over 10% more.
  • xbowhunter
    xbowhunter Posts: 1,309 Member
    I don't even own a food scale & I am somehow maintaining a healthy weight...lol

    Peel it & eat it then enjoy your day.... :)
  • CarvedTones
    CarvedTones Posts: 2,340 Member
    Jackie9003 wrote: »
    3 pages and over 50 responses to a question about weighing a banana - I love MFP :D

    How many calories do you burn chasing a tangent?
  • DoubleUbea
    DoubleUbea Posts: 1,115 Member
    How do you banana your whey?
  • joemac1988
    joemac1988 Posts: 1,021 Member
    With my eyeballs. Not calorie dense enough to stress about it.

    "Meh, bout 30g..." *peels potassium sword and eats seductively while locking eyes with the nearest stranger*
  • Jackie9003
    Jackie9003 Posts: 1,121 Member
    CarvedTones wrote: »
    Jackie9003 wrote: »
    3 pages and over 50 responses to a question about weighing a banana - I love MFP :D

    How many calories do you burn chasing a tangent?

    Can I phone a friend?
  • climberbry
    climberbry Posts: 22 Member
    Wow. This is serious. Weighing bananas... ;)
  • LivingtheLeanDream
    LivingtheLeanDream Posts: 13,342 Member
    cwolfman13 wrote: »
    You would weigh the edible portion...

    +1
  • nutmegoreo
    nutmegoreo Posts: 15,532 Member
    ShowingProgress wrote: »
    CarvedTones wrote: »
    Jackie9003 wrote: »
    3 pages and over 50 responses to a question about weighing a banana - I love MFP :D

    How many calories do you burn chasing a tangent?

    How did you weigh the tangent? 🤨

    Carefully. Those things are slippery.
  • quiksylver296
    quiksylver296 Posts: 28,439 Member
    nutmegoreo wrote: »
    ShowingProgress wrote: »
    CarvedTones wrote: »
    Jackie9003 wrote: »
    3 pages and over 50 responses to a question about weighing a banana - I love MFP :D

    How many calories do you burn chasing a tangent?

    How did you weigh the tangent? 🤨

    Carefully. Those things are slippery.

    :laugh:

    You've got me snorting in my office again.
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