Wieghing food

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  • beets_yum
    beets_yum Posts: 36
    I also weigh my food. A $25 scale (Escali) is the best diet money you can spend. I can guarantee you are not eating a single serving of cheese, 1 ounce, if you are eating cheese and crackers as an appetizer. An ounce is a pretty small amount. With some thing I eat often, like almonds, I can now pick up 28 grams in my "handful" because I'm sure of what it feels like. But I still always underestimate cheese sour cream and ice cream when I eyeball, guess or even half-a$$edly use a measuring cup.

    Something that helps a lot with snacking: If I'm planning to eat say nut butter or hummus as a snack (something easy to eat a lot of if you aren't paying attention) I will weigh it out in the am and eat from a small bowl when I get hungry.

    When I cook I will put everything into a tared bowl and figure out what each portion should weigh. This is especially helpful with something really yummy and calorie dense.

    It's also much better to bake by weight rather than volume. Much better results.
  • mlogantra76
    mlogantra76 Posts: 334 Member
    I weigh everything that I possibly can. I like how you can zero out the weight of the bowl you place on your scale. I like how there is less dishes to wash when you weigh. I always hated trying to get a Tablespoon clean after you have measured peanut butter in it.
  • eileen0515
    eileen0515 Posts: 408 Member
    I weigh or measure everything I possibly can! I've lost 40 pounds in 5+ months. Little inaccuracies add up. It has also trained me to visualize a portion. My vision of a portion was pretty skewed, this is critical when out and about and can't weight or measure. it's been an eye opener.

    And don't forget weighing or measuring, can sometimes show you, you are eating too little.
  • nokanjaijo
    nokanjaijo Posts: 466 Member
    It's one of the things that irks me in the MFP food database. I search for 'carrots' and up comes 'one cup'. Pray how do people measure 'one cup' of whole carrots? What, damn, is a cup of broccoli? Potatoes? I make porridge with half a cup of oats and know from that that it is anywhere tween 40 and 60 grams.140 or 210 calories.

    I know! You would have to puree broccoli to get it to sit in a measuring cup in any kind of meaningful way.
  • cwolfman13
    cwolfman13 Posts: 41,865 Member
    It's one of the things that irks me in the MFP food database. I search for 'carrots' and up comes 'one cup'. Pray how do people measure 'one cup' of whole carrots? What, damn, is a cup of broccoli? Potatoes? I make porridge with half a cup of oats and know from that that it is anywhere tween 40 and 60 grams.140 or 210 calories.

    Often if you click on the "serving" it will give you other serving size options. I have no problem whatsoever logging all my food by weight, including my broccoli, carrots, etc.
  • houlenberg
    houlenberg Posts: 107 Member
    I weigh everything! I don't trust measuring cups b/c you can squeeze more than the proper serving into the cup, depending on the density of the item. Weighing by grams is SO much more accurate and by doing it, I know I am getting exactly what I'm supposed to get. I eyeball nothing.
  • beachgirl172723
    beachgirl172723 Posts: 151 Member
    I weigh everything. Even things that come pre packaged. I found out recently 2 MetRx 100g protein bars came in at 103g and 113g.

    Poptarts have been dead on at 50g though so far.


    I love irony.
  • elephant_in_the_room
    elephant_in_the_room Posts: 145 Member
    It's one of the things that irks me in the MFP food database. I search for 'carrots' and up comes 'one cup'. Pray how do people measure 'one cup' of whole carrots? What, damn, is a cup of broccoli? Potatoes? I make porridge with half a cup of oats and know from that that it is anywhere tween 40 and 60 grams.140 or 210 calories.

    Often if you click on the "serving" it will give you other serving size options. I have no problem whatsoever logging all my food by weight, including my broccoli, carrots, etc.

    Thanks. I often have to browse through lots of food options until I fing one that states, say '127g', and then I know there will be a 1g serving size option which I cam then multiply by, say, 40 to give the number I want. The 'cup' measurements usually have just that option -- a cup -- or sometimes also TSP, etc..... Which doesn't help at all.

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