How accurate are you?

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  • fruitloop2
    fruitloop2 Posts: 437 Member
    I weigh for a lot of things and eyeball for others. I try to be fairly accurate.
  • Otterluv
    Otterluv Posts: 9,083 Member
    I pretty much weigh everything that isn't pre-packaged. Eyeballing it doesn't work for me long term, let's just say that the portions gradually get more "optimistic". Weighing my food is easy and it helps me make sure that my macros are accurate.

    The only issue is when I eat out, which I do love to do. In those situations, I just do the best I can and overestimate the calories a bit.
  • spaghetti93
    spaghetti93 Posts: 140 Member
    the harder it is to measure, the less likely I am to measure it. If its cereal or a drink, these can easily be poured in a measuring cup, but things like peanut butter or yogurt... I just dont have the patience to scrape them out of whatever I use to measure them. I dont have a food scale so I cant measure things like cold cuts but try my best to divide them up by the weight on the package and number of slices. After measuring the same food over and over again, you get a pretty good idea of what an ounce or a half a cup looks like, but once in a while I will measure something I usually eyeball just to make sure my perceptions haven't been skewed.
  • johnnisays
    johnnisays Posts: 7
    in march, i lost 10 lbs by just eating clean and "eyeing" my nutes (with working out). now that i have seen major progress, i took it up a notch. i weigh my food, measure my liquids and INPUT everything into MFP. i believe if i want my progress to be on point, my nutrition has to be on point.
  • Defren
    Defren Posts: 216 Member
    I measure everything! But I am only 5 days in lol I am sure in a few months I will be able to eyeball things. At this point if I dont know how much a serving is I wont eat it.

    I am 13 months in and still weigh and log every little thing. lol
  • bluelena
    bluelena Posts: 304 Member
    When I got my food scale, I obsessively measured EVERYTHING. Now, I just weigh stuff that I don't want to overdo, like cheese, meats, potatoes, pita chips, etc. Everything else I just eyeball.

    Unless I'm entering a recipe. Then, I'm pretty exact with weights and measurements.
  • kelly_c_77
    kelly_c_77 Posts: 5,658 Member
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    You're welcome.

    Awesome! Thank you!!
  • bumblebums
    bumblebums Posts: 2,181 Member
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    You're welcome.

    lol, I have tiny hands - I think that would be very out for me :laugh:

    I have large hands for a woman, so this way of doing things always makes me laugh. My palm is a hell of a lot more than 3 oz. (I know this because I weigh my food whenever possible.)

    #Man Hands
  • MeganKSchultz
    MeganKSchultz Posts: 73
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    You're welcome.

    I don't think this is fair. i have really small hands!
  • bearwith
    bearwith Posts: 525 Member
    bit of both
  • bethanykf
    bethanykf Posts: 68
    I weigh everything when I'm at home. If I've eaten out at a place that doesn't post nutritional information then I estimate high.
  • _namaste_
    _namaste_ Posts: 246
    I measure and weigh everything, since I eat back all of my exercise calories. This has worked perfectly for me. :)
  • 970Mikaela1
    970Mikaela1 Posts: 2,013 Member
    Everything 94% percent of the time is weighed .
  • angelique_redhead
    angelique_redhead Posts: 782 Member
    I weigh and measure. Any time I guesstimate it's something I've been weighing and measuring so long I know how much there is. I've even been known to take my scale and measuring cup with me to some of my favorite restaurants. They know I'm on a diet and have NO problem with this. :laugh:
  • skinnytayy
    skinnytayy Posts: 459
    I eyeball everything unless its baking. I've been cooking for some time now & I measured in the past so I feel I have a pretty good idea of how much I use. I eat primal anyways so its not a big deal if i eat a few extra calories in lettuce or whatever. Nothing I eat frequently has enough calories to really screw me up.

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