How I stopped kidding myself
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LivingtheLeanDream wrote: »so what happens if you get flagged too much? can you be put in MFP jail
(Sorry OP, not meaning to de-rail the thread)
I don't know if they do that anymore.
And anything that keeps this thread on the first page is a good thing. New readers only need to read the OP.8 -
No worries!! ☺️3
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Bump4
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Great post op!!
I love my food scale.3 -
Tacklewasher wrote: »quiksylver296 wrote: »LivingtheLeanDream wrote: »quiksylver296 wrote: »singingflutelady wrote: »What's with the abuse flags?
I have a disgruntled stalker.
somebody must have done that by mistake?
Nope, he's doing it on purpose. I know who it is.
And it's not me.....
But I'll give you a hug anyway (how much longer for the link weight?)
I just figured out you meant the pink weight, @tacklewasher. MONDAY!!!4 -
Ok, so we have scales in the caff at work since the salad bar is by weight. But does anyone carry a personal scale? I have a gram scale that I use for measuring spices and coffee at home that I could stick in my pocket.4
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quiksylver296 wrote: »Tacklewasher wrote: »quiksylver296 wrote: »LivingtheLeanDream wrote: »quiksylver296 wrote: »singingflutelady wrote: »What's with the abuse flags?
I have a disgruntled stalker.
somebody must have done that by mistake?
Nope, he's doing it on purpose. I know who it is.
And it's not me.....
But I'll give you a hug anyway (how much longer for the link weight?)
I just figured out you meant the pink weight, @tacklewasher. MONDAY!!!
D'oh!
Yeah, pink weight.
So we need to make another bet (that I will obviously win).1 -
Tacklewasher wrote: »quiksylver296 wrote: »Tacklewasher wrote: »quiksylver296 wrote: »LivingtheLeanDream wrote: »quiksylver296 wrote: »singingflutelady wrote: »What's with the abuse flags?
I have a disgruntled stalker.
somebody must have done that by mistake?
Nope, he's doing it on purpose. I know who it is.
And it's not me.....
But I'll give you a hug anyway (how much longer for the link weight?)
I just figured out you meant the pink weight, @tacklewasher. MONDAY!!!
D'oh!
Yeah, pink weight.
So we need to make another bet (that I will obviously win).
Oh so you'll hug her but not me, huh? I see how it is
I propose her new profile pic be the one she posted this morning2 -
Tacklewasher wrote: »quiksylver296 wrote: »Tacklewasher wrote: »quiksylver296 wrote: »LivingtheLeanDream wrote: »quiksylver296 wrote: »singingflutelady wrote: »What's with the abuse flags?
I have a disgruntled stalker.
somebody must have done that by mistake?
Nope, he's doing it on purpose. I know who it is.
And it's not me.....
But I'll give you a hug anyway (how much longer for the link weight?)
I just figured out you meant the pink weight, @tacklewasher. MONDAY!!!
D'oh!
Yeah, pink weight.
So we need to make another bet (that I will obviously win).
Oh so you'll hug her but not me, huh? I see how it is
I propose her new profile pic be the one she posted this morning
See, she can't hurt me if I'm hugging her. With you it's just creepy.
And not sure what she posted this morning. All I remember is the hotcakes.3 -
Tacklewasher wrote: »Tacklewasher wrote: »quiksylver296 wrote: »Tacklewasher wrote: »quiksylver296 wrote: »LivingtheLeanDream wrote: »quiksylver296 wrote: »singingflutelady wrote: »What's with the abuse flags?
I have a disgruntled stalker.
somebody must have done that by mistake?
Nope, he's doing it on purpose. I know who it is.
And it's not me.....
But I'll give you a hug anyway (how much longer for the link weight?)
I just figured out you meant the pink weight, @tacklewasher. MONDAY!!!
D'oh!
Yeah, pink weight.
So we need to make another bet (that I will obviously win).
Oh so you'll hug her but not me, huh? I see how it is
I propose her new profile pic be the one she posted this morning
See, she can't hurt me if I'm hugging her. With you it's just creepy.
And not sure what she posted this morning. All I remember is the hotcakes.
You're friends with her, right?
Creepy?2 -
Now I feel really guilty for jumping into this thread without addressing the OP
@sarahlucindac Thank you for posting this! @quiksylver296 and so many others here devote an enormous amount of time trying to get people to understand the benefits of accurate logging. Hopefully this helps someone else realize maybe, just maybe, there's something to it8 -
Great post2
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Tacklewasher wrote: »quiksylver296 wrote: »Tacklewasher wrote: »quiksylver296 wrote: »LivingtheLeanDream wrote: »quiksylver296 wrote: »singingflutelady wrote: »What's with the abuse flags?
I have a disgruntled stalker.
somebody must have done that by mistake?
Nope, he's doing it on purpose. I know who it is.
And it's not me.....
But I'll give you a hug anyway (how much longer for the link weight?)
I just figured out you meant the pink weight, @tacklewasher. MONDAY!!!
D'oh!
Yeah, pink weight.
So we need to make another bet (that I will obviously win).
Oh so you'll hug her but not me, huh? I see how it is
I propose her new profile pic be the one she posted this morning
I had one like that, back in the day. It was pre-tattoo3 -
Tacklewasher wrote: »Tacklewasher wrote: »quiksylver296 wrote: »Tacklewasher wrote: »quiksylver296 wrote: »LivingtheLeanDream wrote: »quiksylver296 wrote: »singingflutelady wrote: »What's with the abuse flags?
I have a disgruntled stalker.
somebody must have done that by mistake?
Nope, he's doing it on purpose. I know who it is.
And it's not me.....
But I'll give you a hug anyway (how much longer for the link weight?)
I just figured out you meant the pink weight, @tacklewasher. MONDAY!!!
D'oh!
Yeah, pink weight.
So we need to make another bet (that I will obviously win).
Oh so you'll hug her but not me, huh? I see how it is
I propose her new profile pic be the one she posted this morning
See, she can't hurt me if I'm hugging her. With you it's just creepy.
And not sure what she posted this morning. All I remember is the hotcakes.
You're friends with her, right?
Creepy?
No. He's still a snob.
But he's missing topless selfies by not accepting my FR, so there's that.4 -
quiksylver296 wrote: »Tacklewasher wrote: »Tacklewasher wrote: »quiksylver296 wrote: »Tacklewasher wrote: »quiksylver296 wrote: »LivingtheLeanDream wrote: »quiksylver296 wrote: »singingflutelady wrote: »What's with the abuse flags?
I have a disgruntled stalker.
somebody must have done that by mistake?
Nope, he's doing it on purpose. I know who it is.
And it's not me.....
But I'll give you a hug anyway (how much longer for the link weight?)
I just figured out you meant the pink weight, @tacklewasher. MONDAY!!!
D'oh!
Yeah, pink weight.
So we need to make another bet (that I will obviously win).
Oh so you'll hug her but not me, huh? I see how it is
I propose her new profile pic be the one she posted this morning
See, she can't hurt me if I'm hugging her. With you it's just creepy.
And not sure what she posted this morning. All I remember is the hotcakes.
You're friends with her, right?
Creepy?
No. He's still a snob.
But he's missing topless selfies by not accepting my FR, so there's that.
At least he'll hug you.0 -
Ok, so we have scales in the caff at work since the salad bar is by weight. But does anyone carry a personal scale? I have a gram scale that I use for measuring spices and coffee at home that I could stick in my pocket.
If I’m eating out (which tends to be a rarity these days), I don’t bother with the food scale. In those cases, I just overestimate the calories I’m eating as much as my imagination can stretch.
I’m flying home to see my family in December and I most definitely plan on bringing my food scale then, though!3 -
I will add that if I ate out a lot, I would definitely bring my food scale with me.3
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Thehardmakesitworthit wrote: »Great post
Thanks! Hope the info can help some people the way it’s helped me!0 -
I've never used a food scale at a restaurant nor at anyone's house.
Let us know how that works out for you. I can just hear your mom.
I don't know, I lost almost 50 pounds without a food scale at all and eating away from home quite frequently. I bought a food scale when I was 30 pounds from goal - and I didn't even use it all the time. It was getting more difficult to lose by that point. However, I didn't have a body-weight scale and was only weighing myself once a month so I needed some control.
There are three things I'm tracking: food, exercise and my own body weight. If I keep up my exercise and keep weighing myself a couple times per week I think now I could easily estimate my food eaten away from home BUT that's because I have used my food scale so long and so regularly. I can pretty much dissect any dish I eat and get close enough. You'll get there in time, too.
For about four or five years after I got to maintenance I didn't use my food scale. I also didn't own a body weight scale. That made it tough! I was trying the intuitive-how-do-my-pants-fit thing. The scales are so much easier. Now it's just habit.5 -
cmriverside wrote: »I've never used a food scale at a restaurant nor at anyone's house.
Let us know how that works out for you. I can just hear your mom.
I don't know, I lost almost 50 pounds without a food scale at all and eating away from home quite frequently. I bought a food scale when I was 30 pounds from goal - and I didn't even use it all the time. It was getting more difficult to lose by that point. However, I didn't have a body-weight scale and was only weighing myself once a month so I needed some control.
There are three things I'm tracking: food, exercise and my own body weight. If I keep up my exercise and keep weighing myself a couple times per week I think now I could easily estimate my food eaten away from home BUT that's because I have used my food scale so long and so regularly. I can pretty much dissect any dish I eat and get close enough. You'll get there in time, too.
For about four or five years after I got to maintenance I didn't use my food scale. I also didn't own a body weight scale. That made it tough! I was trying the intuitive-how-do-my-pants-fit thing. The scales are so much easier. Now it's just habit.
Lol yup my mom’s going to think I’m crazy. I already get all kinds of judgement for how much I use my food scale (my boyfriends father rolls his eyes at me while I carefully weigh out the mayo that’s going on my burger, for example).
I know I have a much better idea of portion sizes now that I’ve been using a food scale, which comes in handy when I eat out. For now though, I’m still learning and will continue to religiously weigh everything I eat at home. I’m still astonished at the discrepancy in the weight of even pre-packaged food (I bought some cookies that were supposed to be around 30g each— those suckers ranged from 25-40g/cookie in reality).
It’s a pain in the *kitten* sometimes (it takes me like 30 minutes just to put together a simple salad due to weighing every little thing)...but the results I’ve seen since adopting this new habit of being absolutely meticulous have really paid off.15
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