Hello everyone! I’m new to MyFitnessPal and I’m reaching out for suggestions on the best way to log my food.
We cook home mostly and I’m really not sure how precise I need to be with my meal description .
Do I need to measure and weigh everything? I want to make sure I get this right for obvious reasons. Any help is appreciated. Thank you 🙏🏼
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I personally weigh food because I found that measuring cups were not helping me consistently hit my calorie goal (which I realized when I was going through a cycle of gaining and losing the same five pounds). Once I began weighing food, my weight loss began progressing exactly as I expected.
A bigger issue would be something like cooking a beef stew and then finding something in the database that says "beef stew, homemade, one serving." That is so inaccurate, likely, for your dish, your ingredients, your serving size, that it is worthless.