If you have to weight something, make it your food

renitawalker9
renitawalker9 Posts: 108
edited January 16 in Food and Nutrition
I broke down and bought a food scale. $5 at Wally World. Not a serious investment. What I found is that I have been cheating myself of food regularly by using measuring cups. Instead of meeting my calorie goals I was failing to meet them consistently. How do you measure something like frozen peaches or strawberries, or some other odd shaped food in a measuring cup and expect to get an accurate measure? You can't, you are really just guessing. This explains why I wasn't seeing the results I expected.

Bottom line: weigh your food.

ETA: Title should say *weigh*. I hate typos!!!!

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  • LittleMissDover
    LittleMissDover Posts: 820 Member
    As someone in the uk I have never got the whole cups as measurement thing, they can be totally inconsistent depending on how large something is chopped and things like pasta, a cup of the tiny farfallini is going to weigh a LOT more than a cup of standard farfalle.

    Weight is best measurement for foods.
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