Portions

Cataliya2013

I’ve been posting everything I eat to the diary and it looks like I ate way too many calories everyday.
Question: if I’m only taking a bite or two of something but never the whole portion size how would you go about logging that? 🙃 or trying to figure out how many calories one is consuming?

Jasoncollins6652

Sorry if this dosent help but you can change the size for example from 1serving of100g to 100 sevings of 1.g so you can try estimate what you ate ,or even if its at home you should buy a electric scale to help .

wunderkindking

Most people here will tell you to weigh and log. Alternately estimate based on what they say the serving size is - ie: .10 or .25 or whatever.

I opted to stop taking a bite or two out of things. If I'm eating it, I'm eating it. Standing around grazing with a bite of this or that while cooking had to stop. If I slip now and do that kind of thing and like, I don't know, eat a french fry I ignore it and that'll come out in the wash but mostly the 'eat bits and pieces while I roam around or pass through the kitchn\en' habit had to go.

cwolfman13

Adjust the serving size. If the default serving is 100 grams and you eat 50 grams, put 0.5 instead of 1, etc.

kshama2001

Weighing makes this a lot easier. For example, instead of struggling to figure out the calories of "two slices of a 'medium apple'" just weigh what you eat and log that.

Unfortunately, the green check marks in the MFP database are used for both USER-created entries and ADMIN-created entries that MFP pulled from the USDA database. A green check mark for USER-created entries just means enough people have upvoted the entry - it is not necessarily correct.

To find ADMIN entries for whole foods, I get the syntax from the USDA database and paste that into MFP. All ADMIN entries from the USDA will have weights as an option BUT there is a glitch whereby sometimes 1g is the option but the values are actually for 100g. This is pretty easy to spot though, as when added the calories are 100x more than is reasonable.

https://fdc.nal.usda.gov

Use the “SR Legacy” tab - that seems to be what MFP used to pull in entries.

Note: any MFP entry that includes "USDA" was USER entered.

For packaged foods, I verify the label against what I find in MFP. (Alas, you cannot just scan with your phone and assume what you get is correct.)