Importance of MEASURING!

AwesomelyAmber
AwesomelyAmber Posts: 1,617 Member
edited November 12 in Food and Nutrition
I often eat dry cereal as a snack, a meal... whatever:love: ! 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:

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  • nebulinda
    nebulinda Posts: 120 Member
    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
    Tropical_Turtle Posts: 2,236 Member
    Yup - the eyeballing trick yeah - never trust that lol The eye and the mind will play tricks on you
  • lewandt
    lewandt Posts: 566 Member
    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
    cmriverside Posts: 34,416 Member
    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
    AwesomelyAmber Posts: 1,617 Member
    :wink: 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
    mukamom Posts: 207 Member
    The size of an "eyeballed" portion is directly proportional to the eyeballer's degree of hunger.
  • dls06
    dls06 Posts: 6,774 Member
    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
    AmyM713 Posts: 594 Member
    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?
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