What do you do when you cant finish your food?
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I'm unfamiliar with the concept
OMG, this! I wish I had this problem!0 -
I'm unfamiliar with the concept
OMG, this! I wish I had this problem!
I usually dont either must be all the water I chugged0 -
I always finish. Sometimes it just takes me a few extra minutes if I'm not very hungry
thank you.:flowerforyou:0 -
no dessert for you young lady......\m/
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What did you use to measure the portion to begin with?
Units cancel as a basic math and chemistry principle.
If you know the total amount of weight of the whole portion, and can measure the leftovers (if they're still around), you can do some math to figure out how much was eaten.
1. total calories divided by total weight = calorie/per 1 unit
2. weigh leftovers
3. weight of leftovers subtracted from weight of total portion = weight of food consumed
4. result from step 3 multiplied by result from step 1 = amount of calories you consumed from what you actually ate.
Hope that makes sense...0 -
no dessert for you young lady......\m/
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if you've already logged it, just "edit" what you initially logged0
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What did you use to measure the portion to begin with?
Units cancel as a basic math and chemistry principle.
If you know the total amount of weight of the whole portion, and can measure the leftovers (if they're still around), you can do some math to figure out how much was eaten.
1. total calories divided by total weight = calorie/per 1 unit
2. weigh leftovers
3. weight of leftovers subtracted from weight of total portion = weight of food consumed
4. result from step 3 multiplied by result from step 1 = amount of calories you consumed from what you actually ate.
Hope that makes sense...
uhhh I measured it all out but this is way over my head lol0 -
uhhh I measured it all out but this is way over my head lol
Right, but what did you measure with? Cups, spoons, grams, ounces, etc?
Edit: Also, what exactly was your breakfast? It's irrelevant to the math, but I'm curious.0 -
uhhh I measured it all out but this is way over my head lol
Right, but what did you measure with? Cups, spoons, grams, ounces, etc?
Edit: Also, what exactly was your breakfast? It's irrelevant to the math, but I'm curious.
cups and tablespoons and well I used a scale things like that0 -
I'm unfamiliar with the concept
exactly my thoughts.0 -
If you ate very little of it, then I would suggest eyeballing and making a guesstimate. But if you ate more than half, I'd let it stand.
good advice I ate like maye 3 bites of the eggs
3 bites of eggs filled you up? :huh:
You're supposed to log what you actually eat, not what you're "pretending" to eat. :noway:
Well I had more than eggs to eat lol I had a big bowl of cereal 4 glasses of water, almond milk, and latte lol
Maybe the 4 glasses of water a leetle bit OTT for breakfast...?0 -
uhhh I measured it all out but this is way over my head lol
Right, but what did you measure with? Cups, spoons, grams, ounces, etc?
Edit: Also, what exactly was your breakfast? It's irrelevant to the math, but I'm curious.
2 egg whites scrambled with mushrooms, baby agrula, onion, rotel
and a big bowel of cereal and a latte, and some almond milk and about 4 glasses of water ( i was really thirsty)0 -
I log after I have eaten, so I log what I actually eat... I would edit it for what I did eat...0
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What fraction would you say you ate? If I eat about 1/3 of something I just go through and edit it. I like to be as honest as possible with myself.
This is what I do.0 -
i dont understand what this is about not being able to finish, never happened to me before, and there lies the problem :laugh:0
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What they said- all of them: re-log, adjust, finish it later. Etc etc etc0
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if you measured it out prior to eating then you shouldn't have made too much. That being said... if you measured it prior and have a remainder, just weigh the remainder and subtract from the starting measurement.0
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I always save it and eat it later in the day Then I don't have to worry about taking the numbers down. Eat it as snacks at snack time or with another meal.0
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Hire a CPA to review which portion went to metabolism, fat storage, future intake, and possible waste deduct any added calorie earns you may have received from exercise credit and then assess which calorie bracket you will be at to avoid paying more in weight taxes?
Good luck...it's complicated.0 -
Log what you ate. If you only ate half, log the half you ate.0
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Hire a CPA to review which portion went to metabolism, fat storage, future intake, and possible waste deduct any added calorie earns you may have received from exercise credit and then assess which calorie bracket you will be at to avoid paying more in weight taxes?
Good luck...it's complicated.
EEEEK! you said a dirt word CPA!! lol I am kidding but yeah0 -
I do not understand the premise of not being able to finish my food.0
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uhhh I measured it all out but this is way over my head lol
Right, but what did you measure with? Cups, spoons, grams, ounces, etc?
Edit: Also, what exactly was your breakfast? It's irrelevant to the math, but I'm curious.
cups and tablespoons and well I used a scale things like that
Alright so, if you know how many calories are in a cup and in a spoon or whatever else you might have used. All you have to do is plug and chug into the steps I provided.
Here's an example....
1 cup = 100 calories
Let's say you originally prepared 3 cups of something in a recipe. You don't know how much you ate exactly but you know you are left with 1.5 cups that you did not eat. You want to know how much you ate. Mathematically, this:
3 cups = 1.5 cups + x
Still following?
Now to figure out how much you ate, you need to subtract how much you DIDN'T eat from the total.
3 cups - 1.5 cups = x
x= 1.5
So now you know how much you ate! If they're fractions, set it up the same way. 1 whole = 1/3 + x ... and so on...
Now you can figure out the calories.
1. Divide the total amount of calories in recipe (100 calories) by the total weight (3 cups, still using the same example)
100 calories divided by 3 cups = 33.33
33.33 is the amount of calories in each cup
2. Use the amount you ate after figuring it out from the subtraction portion above and multiply it by 33.33
Using the example, you ate 1.5 cup.
1.5 x .33.33 = 49.995
49.995 is the amount of calories you ate from breakfast
3. Enter it either as quick added cals. Or enter the whole thing as a recipe and log as close to 49.995 of the original recipe under the meal you want it for.
Seriously, if you take it step by step, it's not that hard. But if it's more work than you care to do, then don't worry about being exact. Just eyeball it like the majority of people in this thread have suggested. If you want to be exact... then you now know there are ways.
*If my math is wrong, someone should correct me but I use this method just about daily because I cook a lot and relying on my own estimates makes me uncomfortable, so I do math. Peace out!0 -
feed it to the dog or trash can .....
step one: if you find you are left most of the time with food on your plate because your full...
try using smaller bowls and plates, your less likely to take too much food and then waste it because your full.0 -
I prefer the aforementioned pocket idea:
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I'm unfamiliar with the concept
me too... I'd have finished it and had a lie down :-/ lol0 -
this was the breakfast of champs and way way more filling than origionally thought I had:
2 egg whites scrambled with mushrooms, onion, rotel, baby arugula
then ceral and a soy lattee and almond milk for the cereal lol
That is not the breakfast of champs... unless a mahoosive bowl of cereal, I'm disappointed! I could eat that easy, especially first thing :P well done on shrinking your tummy though xx0 -
this was the breakfast of champs and way way more filling than origionally thought I had:
2 egg whites scrambled with mushrooms, onion, rotel, baby arugula
then ceral and a soy lattee and almond milk for the cereal lol
That is not the breakfast of champs... unless a mahoosive bowl of cereal, I'm disappointed! I could eat that easy, especially first thing :P well done on shrinking your tummy though xx
ayb that and the fact I drank so much water water is filling stuff lol0 -
I always finish. Sometimes it just takes me a few extra minutes if I'm not very hungry
This would have been pretty funny if you didn't finish the sentence...0
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