Food weighing scale miracles.....

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  • Ely82010
    Ely82010 Posts: 1,998 Member
    I finally sucked it up and mine should be delivered today. I just hope I don't get too OCD with it. That's always been my worry, but you guys are so convincing that it's a normal thing to weigh your food and that it's not over the top at all. It's just hard to get it through my thick head that it's ok to weigh and I won't be a weirdo for doing it.

    I'm OCD about it and frankly I don't care. I weigh everything when I'm home... it gives me peace of mind.

    My scale actually started misbehaving last week, and I had to use cups to figure out the number of servings of mashed potatoes I had made... It made about 5. Finished the mashed potatoes after a couple days, using measuring cups again, and realized I had only logged 4 servings. So that's 150 unaccounted calories somewhere. Ugh.

    The scale did it again yesterday and I just went to Target to buy a new one before having dinner. Even after a year, I still can't estimate properly, and my deficit is too small to guess.
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    Your scale probably needed a new battery. They don't last for ever.
  • Francl27
    Francl27 Posts: 26,371 Member
    I finally sucked it up and mine should be delivered today. I just hope I don't get too OCD with it. That's always been my worry, but you guys are so convincing that it's a normal thing to weigh your food and that it's not over the top at all. It's just hard to get it through my thick head that it's ok to weigh and I won't be a weirdo for doing it.

    I'm OCD about it and frankly I don't care. I weigh everything when I'm home... it gives me peace of mind.

    My scale actually started misbehaving last week, and I had to use cups to figure out the number of servings of mashed potatoes I had made... It made about 5. Finished the mashed potatoes after a couple days, using measuring cups again, and realized I had only logged 4 servings. So that's 150 unaccounted calories somewhere. Ugh.

    The scale did it again yesterday and I just went to Target to buy a new one before having dinner. Even after a year, I still can't estimate properly, and my deficit is too small to guess.

    Your scale probably needed a new battery. They don't last for ever.

    Nah, it wasn't the battery, it gets stuck on 'unstable' and just keeps displaying random numbers, new batteries or not. Very annoying. It's apparently a common issue with that scale (the EatSmart one).
  • firesweetheart
    firesweetheart Posts: 92 Member
    I actually love using food scales for baking. If you're making bread, "a cup" of flour can vary wildly. 100 g of flour is always 100g.

    I will often buy the British editions of cookbooks simply because they have the recipes in weights instead of amounts.

    Mind bown. I think I may need to go cookbook shopping now because I hate doing the US-to-metric conversion when using my scale.

    Also, I don't struggle with using my scale with recipes or making meals, I struggle with determining proper portion after the food is ready. Like cooked pasta, chili, casseroles. Anyone have good tips on measuring/portioning things like this?

    ETA: I didn't read through all the posts. I since saw the 'weigh the cooking vessel before cooking and mark it down' idea and the 'make your recipe in MFP by weight' idea. I guess I've just been too lazy before. I'll change my method tonight!
  • swissmish
    swissmish Posts: 183 Member
    My food scale has been a godsend. It really is amazing to see what a real portion is compared to what I was eating before. I still need to remind my husband to weigh everything though when he makes dinner, but he is learning, albeit slowly.
  • Tracey_B_72
    Tracey_B_72 Posts: 1,021 Member
    Pasta was a huge over estimation for me before I started weighing.

    I also saw some posts about people giving up nuts and cheese, I still have nuts but 50g of natural nuts with dried raisins, I needed more protein and these are a great snack and as for cheese I now get a mature or extra mature and I grate it so it looks like more and sprinkle it over pasta or a salad, so then I get the flavour coming through, I grate 100g and that's plenty for 3 of us to sprinkle.
  • MsPudding
    MsPudding Posts: 562 Member
    Well as someone who love baking, I've always been a scale convert as baking requires exactitude.

    It is, however, shocking how a 'guesstimate' portion can vary from an actual portion. I did this with my other half last week. He *loves* these high-end organic mueslis for his breakfast and considers them 'healthy'. He was also moaning about having put on a bit of weight. One morning he poured his muesli and I idly asked him if he thought that was the serving size mentioned on the packet for his 225 calorie breakfast. He thought it was, so I turned the scales and tipped his 'serving' into a bowl - low and behold his 'serving' was actually 3 servings and he was eating nearly 700 calories for his breakfast alone! :noway:

    Needless to say...he's now a scale convert too :bigsmile:

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