How to weight the food

azrash26
azrash26 Posts: 1 Member
in Food and Nutrition

For eg...i had a medium sized boneless piece of mutton. How do i know how many calories it has? I mean how will i enter the data if i dont know how much it weighs?

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  • briscogun
    briscogun Posts: 1,245 Member

    You won't know how many calories it has if you don't weight it. This is why most people struggle with MFP: they don't weight or measure.

    Now, that being said, even weighing isn't perfect. No system is. But when you weigh/measure you give yourself the best chance of being as close as you can. Sometimes there is nothing you can do though.

    Yesterday I ate out for lunch unexpectedly. No way I could weigh or even know exactly what was in the lunch I had, so when I got home I had to do the "best guess" and enter something (I chose an entry with a higher calorie count to be safe).

    As long as it's a one-off situation it shouldn't be a big deal. If it's every meal every day that's when it becomes a problem and the wheels come off.

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  • rmbraziel
    rmbraziel Posts: 5 Member

    is it better to weigh in grams or an or does it matter?

  • michaelhardie13
    michaelhardie13 Posts: 23 Member
    https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/comment/48725982#Comment_48725982

    whichever you like best. If you weigh food often, you will learn what 3 oz. or 100 grams of grilled chicken looks like. You can also look up food in MFP in restaurants, or scan the bar code on packaged food.

  • michaelhardie13
    michaelhardie13 Posts: 23 Member

    I actually also have a pocket sized scale I can take anywhere. I just have to decide how much embarrassment I am ok with. 😉

  • PAV8888
    PAV8888 Posts: 15,593 Member

    I get ticked off when I change cars (as I've done the past week) and get in the car with the loot only to discover that the car scale is not there!

  • AnnPT77
    AnnPT77 Posts: 37,814 Community Helper
    https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/comment/48725982#Comment_48725982

    I prefer to weigh in grams vs. ounces, personally.

    If I choose the right food entry from the database, I can enter weights in 1-gram increments, either because the serving size has a one-gram option or has a 100-gram option that I can use decimal fractions with.

    Most home scales only weigh in ounces and tenths, but will weigh in one gram increments. There are roughly 28 grams in an ounce. The same measurement space has 10 subdivisions if I use ounces/tenths, but something in the vicinity of 28 subdivisions if I use grams. That means a grams weight is more "fine grained" - more precisely pinned down a quantity - than ounces/tenths.

    This is hard to explain clearly. I hope that makes sense.

  • PAV8888
    PAV8888 Posts: 15,593 Member

    A 1/10 ounce increment is equal to 2.835g.

    If measuring oil that could be a 25.5 Cal difference.

    If the scale resolution supports it, measuring to the gram offers more precision

  • AnnPT77
    AnnPT77 Posts: 37,814 Community Helper
    https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/comment/48726708#Comment_48726708

    Yup, that's a better explanation 😆

    Thanks, Pav!

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