help :(

sijomial

GCMI90 wrote: »

Made my food diary public. Well maybe i eat more than i thought

Just my opinion but in order of priority....

1/ Log everything with calories that you consume. That's pretty revealing where your calories are coming from and puts that little voice in your ear "Is this food worth the calories? Should I eat less of this and more of that?".
2/ Log consistently, that may be good enough for purpose (especially with adjusting your goal cals based on results).
3/ Use a food scale at least for a time learning about what a serving actually means to you. Can almost guarantee that a real world serving size isn't the same as is displayed on the packet for many highly calorific items such as breakfast cereals, peanut butter, cheese.....
4/ Decide if accuracy is important to you - if it is then ditch those spoons and cups, that's just making extra washing up for no good purpose.


PS - #1 and #2 could have been good enough for my weight loss but my adjustment would have been fairly large, adding in a self-education phase of #3 to at least get my estimates in a good ballpark was a good investment in time and meant I only needed a small goal adjustment to lose at the rate I wanted and weighing everything wasn't required.

A side benefit of weighing my cereal is that my porridge was perfect every time!

psychod787

Dogmom1978 wrote: »

😂😂😂😂

Ok let’s not go out on a witch hunt! Now they’ll probably just disagree with you out of spite

GCMI90

i actually found one in my house kind old but work started today

springlering62

Dogmom1978 wrote: »

If you are in the US, you can verify the accuracy of the scale with a nickel. Set the scale to 0 and on grams. Weigh a nickel; it should weigh exactly 5 grams (I test my scale regularly as they don’t last forever).

Now that’s useful.

I’ve been wondering because my scale seems to be putting on weight. It keeps
Randomly adding grams when it’s empty and freshly zeroed out.

Dogmom1978

springlering62 wrote: »

Dogmom1978 wrote: »

If you are in the US, you can verify the accuracy of the scale with a nickel. Set the scale to 0 and on grams. Weigh a nickel; it should weigh exactly 5 grams (I test my scale regularly as they don’t last forever).

Now that’s useful.

I’ve been wondering because my scale seems to be putting on weight. It keeps
Randomly adding grams when it’s empty and freshly zeroed out.

It’s a trick I learned in college that had 0 to do with weighing food. I was a massive pot head and needed to make sure I wasn’t getting shorted so I needed my scale to be accurate. 😂😂😂😂