Food scale or Heart Rate Monitor

determinedgirl1

Which would be more beneficial a food scale or heart rate monitor? I measure my food & my hubby is a butcher, so he measures the meat that I eat, so I think i am logging accurate information. As far as calories burned...I am just going by the online / MFP calculator, so it is a generic guest-i-mate.

dopeysmelly

Depends what you are trying to achieve, I guess.

If you want to focus on weight loss, then I would say the food scale. If you want to focus on improving your cardio fitness, then I would say the HRM.

lemonsnowdrop

Both. If you don't weigh your food, you don't know how much you're eating. If you don't wear a HRM (only useful for cardio though) you don't know how much you're burning. The MFP calculators are typically inflated, so a lot of people eat back half the calories it gives you.

FoogooFish

I've invested in both, but I picked the food scale first. The HRM took a bit longer to research, whereas scales are fairly straightforward.

RussellG67

If you have to pick one it would be the food scale. It is way too easy to eat to big a portion from guessing.

Calories from working out are not as importing to track. But be careful of the on line tool numbers. If I walk the golf course and it takes me 4 hours to play a round I doubt I would really burn 1,791 calories.

Of course I would rather say get both.

onewarmmomma

I have both. From experience, if you use the scale for a few weeks you'll then be able to eye ball your portions and it becomes a useless tool in the kitchen. My HRM I use regularly.

dbanks80

Both