Help with calorie recording! Please

clarissa4542
clarissa4542 Posts: 8 Member
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Please would you mind looking at this and tell me if this looks right?! Still learning 😬

Seems very low?? mx2oifjiwu1r.png


Chicken breast cooked - 120gm

roasted potatoes with skins, no oil - 55g

Handful of steamed carrots, beans and cabbage

Stuffing from packet mix - 15g

Tiny bit of gravy, again just made from gravy granules

Thank you 🙏🏼

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  • harper16
    harper16 Posts: 2,564 Member
    edited July 2020
    How much weight are you trying to lose? What did you set your weight loss goal at?

    Are you using a food scale and weigh everything? Some of your calorie counts seem really low.
  • clarissa4542
    clarissa4542 Posts: 8 Member
    2 and half stone, 11stone 2lbs, yes I weigh everything accurately!
  • Dogmom1978
    Dogmom1978 Posts: 1,580 Member
    Did you really only have 15 grams of stuffing??? That’s only 1 tablespoon? I can’t say I’ve personally ever eaten only 1 tablespoon of stuffing...

    Are you SURE you’re weighing foods accurately?
  • clarissa4542
    clarissa4542 Posts: 8 Member
    Lol yes I don’t really like it so I was trying some again to see if I had changed my mind! I hadn’t 😜
  • cmriverside
    cmriverside Posts: 34,413 Member
    So - what exactly is your question, clarissa4542?
  • BarbaraHelen2013
    BarbaraHelen2013 Posts: 1,940 Member
    clarissa4542 wrote: »
    Lol yes I don’t really like it so I was trying some again to see if I had changed my mind! I hadn’t 😜

    The point is not whether you liked it or not but whether you’ve selected an appropriate entry when logging the bit you ate but didn’t like. As I mentioned before, the entry for the stuffing you chose to use was one where the stuffing was in a pork roast - which I don’t think is what you ate?

    If I were logging a packet stuffing I’d be typing something like this:

    Sainsbury’s Lemon and Thyme Stuffing Mix

    or

    Paxo Sage and Onion Stuffing Mix

    Those are examples, obviously but I’d not just type ‘stuffing’ and pick a random entry!

    That’s not the only discrepancy in the screenshot vs your list but it’s the one that illustrates best the perils of the database and how important it is to learn how to ‘game the broken system’ when it comes to finding accurate, appropriate entries.

    I’m using the app so I can’t link the relevant threads that explain in detail how to better record your intake, but hopefully someone else can help with providing a link - I know there’s a thread somewhere (in the stickies, probably) that covers this.

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