Food scales and devilish conversions

nomorearmflab
nomorearmflab Posts: 76
in Food and Nutrition
So I purchased my first food scale. I cannot tell you guys HOW MANY times I have fallen off and on this food wagon, and I've decided to start tackling my diet before tackling my exercise issue.

My first issue is that I work at a restaurant. Well, three to be exact. I am hoping by bringing all/ a majority of my food from home I will be able to wean myself off of reliance of eating at work.

The second is how to use my food scale. I understand that by weighing everything I will be able to extrapolate the exact amount of calories I am consuming, my problem is figuring out how to convert some of that to serving size.
Ex. I ate a 5.4 oz swai for lunch, so I went into the myfitpal app and found a serving size of 1 fillet of swai at 4.0 oz. since I could not adjust the oz, I just adjusted the serving size to 1.3 on a wild guess.

Is this the correct way to use this new contraption in my life?

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  • TheVevina
    TheVevina Posts: 46 Member
    About right. 1.35 of the serving actually. Just take out a calculator or do some mental math. Simply divide how much you ate by the serving size (5.4/4) :D

    Edited spelling mistake
  • williams969
    williams969 Posts: 2,528 Member
    About right. 1.35 of the serving actually. Just take out a calculator or do some mental math. Simply divide how much you ate by the serving size (5.4/4) :D

    Edited spelling mistake

    ^^Yep, that's how you do it. It's REALLY helpful if you find an accurate database item that lists 1 oz. or 100 g. That makes it SO much easier (5.4oz? Enter 5.4 servings of 1oz. 230 grams of food? enter 2.3 servings of 100g size.). Otherwise, if there's only 4oz. or 250g or whatever oddball serving size, just take your actual food's weight divided by whatever MFP food size is = number of "servings".

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