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jamiekidby wrote: »RunnerGrl1982 wrote: »Do you have a food scale and weighing all your food?
I do have a food scale. When I am following "The Zone" which tends to work well for me, I do weigh and measure all of my food. It's just a lot of work and I am not sure I can make that committment to food prep right now. I figured tracking my calories would be sufficient. Does weighing the food that you are tracking calories with make a difference somehow?
Ahhh, food scales and eggs. How upset I was to find out how much those freakin’ eggs could vary. And it was rarely under one serving of “egg.” My record was one egg equaling 3.6 servings of egg.
Weigh ALL solid foods, including pre-packaged ones like yogurt and frozen meals and things that seem to be in their own packaging like eggs, slices of bread, and pieces of cheese. If your calorie goal is set correctly, you really don’t have a lot of wiggle room.
Go figure; eggs are one of the (very few) items I *don’t* typically weigh. Now I’m a little afraid to... 😆1 -
ChrysalisCove wrote: »jamiekidby wrote: »RunnerGrl1982 wrote: »Do you have a food scale and weighing all your food?
I do have a food scale. When I am following "The Zone" which tends to work well for me, I do weigh and measure all of my food. It's just a lot of work and I am not sure I can make that committment to food prep right now. I figured tracking my calories would be sufficient. Does weighing the food that you are tracking calories with make a difference somehow?
Ahhh, food scales and eggs. How upset I was to find out how much those freakin’ eggs could vary. And it was rarely under one serving of “egg.” My record was one egg equaling 3.6 servings of egg.
Weigh ALL solid foods, including pre-packaged ones like yogurt and frozen meals and things that seem to be in their own packaging like eggs, slices of bread, and pieces of cheese. If your calorie goal is set correctly, you really don’t have a lot of wiggle room.
Go figure; eggs are one of the (very few) items I *don’t* typically weigh. Now I’m a little afraid to... 😆
Me too, I love fried egg and beans on toast as an alternative fry up and have been taking the usda medium egg value when I log, I never thought about weighing them - ooops0 -
I'm about the same weight as you (was 213 January 1st and down to 198 today) and though I don't count calories, I count macros I'm eating about 1350 calories a day and work out about an hour a day. I think you will find weighing everything is key. Also you said your getting most of your protein from eggs. If your eating whole eggs and not weighing them, they can have drastically different weights. Also consider each egg has about 5-6 grams of fat. The weighing has really helped me because packaging serving sizes are off a lot. For example the other day I was weighing out Trader Joes Asparagus and the serving size said 84 grams (about 7 pieces). 84 grams was actually about 12 pieces so in this instance I was able to eat a little more.0
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Jackie9003 wrote: »ChrysalisCove wrote: »jamiekidby wrote: »RunnerGrl1982 wrote: »Do you have a food scale and weighing all your food?
I do have a food scale. When I am following "The Zone" which tends to work well for me, I do weigh and measure all of my food. It's just a lot of work and I am not sure I can make that committment to food prep right now. I figured tracking my calories would be sufficient. Does weighing the food that you are tracking calories with make a difference somehow?
Ahhh, food scales and eggs. How upset I was to find out how much those freakin’ eggs could vary. And it was rarely under one serving of “egg.” My record was one egg equaling 3.6 servings of egg.
Weigh ALL solid foods, including pre-packaged ones like yogurt and frozen meals and things that seem to be in their own packaging like eggs, slices of bread, and pieces of cheese. If your calorie goal is set correctly, you really don’t have a lot of wiggle room.
Go figure; eggs are one of the (very few) items I *don’t* typically weigh. Now I’m a little afraid to... 😆
Me too, I love fried egg and beans on toast as an alternative fry up and have been taking the usda medium egg value when I log, I never thought about weighing them - ooops
yep my large eggs say 50g on the package one was 54g the other was 55 so 109g for 2 eggs. maybe not a lot of calories there but they all add up1 -
ChrysalisCove wrote: »jamiekidby wrote: »RunnerGrl1982 wrote: »Do you have a food scale and weighing all your food?
I do have a food scale. When I am following "The Zone" which tends to work well for me, I do weigh and measure all of my food. It's just a lot of work and I am not sure I can make that committment to food prep right now. I figured tracking my calories would be sufficient. Does weighing the food that you are tracking calories with make a difference somehow?
Ahhh, food scales and eggs. How upset I was to find out how much those freakin’ eggs could vary. And it was rarely under one serving of “egg.” My record was one egg equaling 3.6 servings of egg.
Weigh ALL solid foods, including pre-packaged ones like yogurt and frozen meals and things that seem to be in their own packaging like eggs, slices of bread, and pieces of cheese. If your calorie goal is set correctly, you really don’t have a lot of wiggle room.
Go figure; eggs are one of the (very few) items I *don’t* typically weigh. Now I’m a little afraid to... 😆
That one was a double yolk! But truthfully, most were at least 1.33 servings of egg.0 -
CharlieBeansmomTracey wrote: »Jackie9003 wrote: »ChrysalisCove wrote: »jamiekidby wrote: »RunnerGrl1982 wrote: »Do you have a food scale and weighing all your food?
I do have a food scale. When I am following "The Zone" which tends to work well for me, I do weigh and measure all of my food. It's just a lot of work and I am not sure I can make that committment to food prep right now. I figured tracking my calories would be sufficient. Does weighing the food that you are tracking calories with make a difference somehow?
Ahhh, food scales and eggs. How upset I was to find out how much those freakin’ eggs could vary. And it was rarely under one serving of “egg.” My record was one egg equaling 3.6 servings of egg.
Weigh ALL solid foods, including pre-packaged ones like yogurt and frozen meals and things that seem to be in their own packaging like eggs, slices of bread, and pieces of cheese. If your calorie goal is set correctly, you really don’t have a lot of wiggle room.
Go figure; eggs are one of the (very few) items I *don’t* typically weigh. Now I’m a little afraid to... 😆
Me too, I love fried egg and beans on toast as an alternative fry up and have been taking the usda medium egg value when I log, I never thought about weighing them - ooops
yep my large eggs say 50g on the package one was 54g the other was 55 so 109g for 2 eggs. maybe not a lot of calories there but they all add up
I started weighing eggs when I was getting them from a farm stand and the sizes were visibly different. I'm back to supermarket eggs now, and weighing them, and there is a surprising amount of variety within a dozen supermarket eggs as well.1 -
kshama2001 wrote: »CharlieBeansmomTracey wrote: »Jackie9003 wrote: »ChrysalisCove wrote: »jamiekidby wrote: »RunnerGrl1982 wrote: »Do you have a food scale and weighing all your food?
I do have a food scale. When I am following "The Zone" which tends to work well for me, I do weigh and measure all of my food. It's just a lot of work and I am not sure I can make that committment to food prep right now. I figured tracking my calories would be sufficient. Does weighing the food that you are tracking calories with make a difference somehow?
Ahhh, food scales and eggs. How upset I was to find out how much those freakin’ eggs could vary. And it was rarely under one serving of “egg.” My record was one egg equaling 3.6 servings of egg.
Weigh ALL solid foods, including pre-packaged ones like yogurt and frozen meals and things that seem to be in their own packaging like eggs, slices of bread, and pieces of cheese. If your calorie goal is set correctly, you really don’t have a lot of wiggle room.
Go figure; eggs are one of the (very few) items I *don’t* typically weigh. Now I’m a little afraid to... 😆
Me too, I love fried egg and beans on toast as an alternative fry up and have been taking the usda medium egg value when I log, I never thought about weighing them - ooops
yep my large eggs say 50g on the package one was 54g the other was 55 so 109g for 2 eggs. maybe not a lot of calories there but they all add up
I started weighing eggs when I was getting them from a farm stand and the sizes were visibly different. I'm back to supermarket eggs now, and weighing them, and there is a surprising amount of variety within a dozen supermarket eggs as well.
I agree you wouldnt think there would be such a big difference in store eggs.0
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