Importance of MEASURING!

AwesomelyAmber

I often eat dry cereal as a snack, a meal... whatever ! However, I am not always so good about watching HOW MUCH I have at a time... Today is complete proof of HOW IMPORTANT it is to MEASURE things out and not 'eyeball' it.

I grabbed what I considered a 'small' bowl and dumped in some Blueberry Muffin Frosted Mini Wheats and thought "Yep, that's about right". Then I looked at the calorie content and amount per serving. 24 pieces. Looked at the bowl again and thought "Yep, got it".... THEN I counted them:blushing: !!! I had roughly 60 pieces in the 'small bowl'!!! I counted out the 24 and dumped the rest back into the box. Surprisingly enough to me, the 24 of them were still quite satisfying and yummy. But to know that I had 2 and a half servings at 190 cal each servings was a bit scary! :laugh:

nebulinda

Yep. Most people underestimate how much food they are eating. Then they jump on the forums and complain that they aren't losing weight.

Tropical_Turtle

Yup - the eyeballing trick yeah - never trust that lol The eye and the mind will play tricks on you

lewandt

i just bought a food scale and am devastated to find out 2 ozs of pasta is about half the serving size i thought it was (and at 200 calories a serving that can add up quite fast).

cmriverside

Agree. Please buy a food scale to "those" people. $20. You'll save that much in food expenses this week if you start eating one portion.

Not to mention the weight loss.

AwesomelyAmber

Cereal is about the only thing that makes me one of 'those people' a couple of you have written of... but yeah it is scary to see the difference of what a real serving is compaired to what size it is in our heads! I use my scale for EVERYTHING at home... should probably get one for work too!

mukamom

The size of an "eyeballed" portion is directly proportional to the eyeballer's degree of hunger.

dls06

That's why I use a scale. A serving is hard to determine for some people. We all have different ideas on what a true serving size is. Some of us think it's what we can fit into a bowl. But how big is the bowl.

AmyM713

I was amazed at how much I was over eating before I got my food scale, isn't there a saying our eyes are bigger then our stomachs at times?