"You have to eat everything on your plate..."
JskC1893
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The 'problem' I keep having is I weigh/measure my food and often times don't eat it all.
Its not a problem really, I can just give myself less food/get more if I want more. The question I have is how do other people handle this in regards to logging food?
Are you someone who is obsessive about accuracy? Or just guess-timate your portions actually consumed?
For example I just measured out 3/4 cup of spaghetti squash and a 1/4 cup of sauce and did not eat all of it, but I logged all of it.
Just curious how other people deal with this
A friend of mine says she just forces herself to eat it all. Shes logging it and keep at her calories and eats it even if she is full.
Its not a problem really, I can just give myself less food/get more if I want more. The question I have is how do other people handle this in regards to logging food?
Are you someone who is obsessive about accuracy? Or just guess-timate your portions actually consumed?
For example I just measured out 3/4 cup of spaghetti squash and a 1/4 cup of sauce and did not eat all of it, but I logged all of it.
Just curious how other people deal with this
A friend of mine says she just forces herself to eat it all. Shes logging it and keep at her calories and eats it even if she is full. 0
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A friend of mine says she just forces herself to eat it all. Shes logging it and keep at her calories and eats it even if she is full.
well that's just the silliest thing i've ever heard. i mean, c'mon...
i would do what you do and log the whole thing. i think as long as you don't way overestimate the number of cals you take in you'll be fine.0 -
A friend of mine says she just forces herself to eat it all. Shes logging it and keep at her calories and eats it even if she is full.
well that's just the silliest thing i've ever heard. i mean, c'mon...
i would do what you do and log the whole thing. i think as long as you don't way overestimate the number of cals you take in you'll be fine.
That's how I feel. She's pretty concerned with the whole 'starvation mode/not eating enough'. Shes SUPER accurate. I just can't be like that. However, I do get concerned that I am not eating ENOUGH, but I always feel full, so I'll play it by ear for now and see over time how I feel/results.0 -
underestimating is bad too...
For me I just started weighing my food more regularly...I put less on my plate then I expect to eat and log it. Then if I get more I add it in.
For example last night I had 4oz of steak, 4 oz potatoes, 7 oz veggies...
Ate it all (it was yummy) then went back and ate more steak...1.5 oz (no veggies left I ate them all)...easy peazy.
Now if you think you are hungrier then you are measure what is left over and subtract it...0 -
I'm sorry I read that your title in my mother's voice .. though there was usually a reward at the end .. "to get dessert!"0
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I guess-timate to the best of my ability. I even add about 200 calories a day just in case I under guess because it is not realistic for me to measure every single thing precisely.
I take it as a good thing when I eat a little less and get full.
I also wouldn't force myself to eat if I were full. Maybe your friend can do smaller portion sizes?0 -
Hey there!
I do this all the time. I cover my plate, put it in the refrigerator, and call it "free food." Then I can eat it anytime I want and not have to count the calories for it because they have already been added in. I usually end up eating it as a snack the same day, or maybe as lunch the next day, or I might save it for a "free" meal-between-meals on a really high calorie burning day that week. It rarely goes to waste though.0 -
I'm sorry I read that your title in my mother's voice .. though there was usually a reward at the end .. "to get dessert!"
Lol. I heard my dad saying "Eat the dang peas girl!"0 -
I'm sorry I read that your title in my mother's voice .. though there was usually a reward at the end .. "to get dessert!"
Fortunately my parents did not torture me with that!! I had one relative who babysat me for a weekend and made me eat everything I put on my plate, and I definitely overscooped. I was probably around 6 years old. haha, one of those memories....0 -
Hey there!
I do this all the time. I cover my plate, put it in the refrigerator, and call it "free food." Then I can eat it anytime I want and not have to count the calories for it because they have already been added in. I usually end up eating it as a snack the same day, or maybe as lunch the next day, or I might save it for a "free" meal-between-meals on a really high calorie burning day that week. It rarely goes to waste though.
Wow what an interesting idea!! I never would have thought of that. I always put it on my boyfriends desk and it magically becomes a cleaned plate. I like your idea better.0 -
Hey there!
I do this all the time. I cover my plate, put it in the refrigerator, and call it "free food." Then I can eat it anytime I want and not have to count the calories for it because they have already been added in. I usually end up eating it as a snack the same day, or maybe as lunch the next day, or I might save it for a "free" meal-between-meals on a really high calorie burning day that week. It rarely goes to waste though.
Such a good idea, although I rarely have leftovers :P0 -
underestimating is bad too...
For me I just started weighing my food more regularly...I put less on my plate then I expect to eat and log it. Then if I get more I add it in.
For example last night I had 4oz of steak, 4 oz potatoes, 7 oz veggies...
Ate it all (it was yummy) then went back and ate more steak...1.5 oz (no veggies left I ate them all)...easy peazy.
Now if you think you are hungrier then you are measure what is left over and subtract it...
Your final statement is smart. I never do it, I just can never be bothered. That however, is a pretty good solution.0 -
Hey there!
I do this all the time. I cover my plate, put it in the refrigerator, and call it "free food." Then I can eat it anytime I want and not have to count the calories for it because they have already been added in. I usually end up eating it as a snack the same day, or maybe as lunch the next day, or I might save it for a "free" meal-between-meals on a really high calorie burning day that week. It rarely goes to waste though.
Such a good idea, although I rarely have leftovers :P
I know right?? I feel like she should get an award for that idea. Perfect answer, I think.0 -
I'm sorry I read that your title in my mother's voice .. though there was usually a reward at the end .. "to get dessert!"
Fortunately my parents did not torture me with that!! I had one relative who babysat me for a weekend and made me eat everything I put on my plate, and I definitely overscooped. I was probably around 6 years old. haha, one of those memories....
Actually, at the time it wasn't torture, I didn't get to where I was leaving food on my plate.0 -
If you create a meal in which you measure all the ingredients to come up with a count for the entire meal, I would say save what you don't finish and snack on it later in the day as you get hungrier. The calories won't change if you eat the whole amount in one sitting, or in 2-3.0
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The 'problem' I keep having is I weigh/measure my food and often times don't eat it all.
Its not a problem really, I can just give myself less food/get more if I want more. The question I have is how do other people handle this in regards to logging food?
Are you someone who is obsessive about accuracy? Or just guess-timate your portions actually consumed?
For example I just measured out 3/4 cup of spaghetti squash and a 1/4 cup of sauce and did not eat all of it, but I logged all of it.
Just curious how other people deal with this A friend of mine says she just forces herself to eat it all. Shes logging it and keep at her calories and eats it even if she is full.
I log after I eat.0 -
underestimating is bad too...
For me I just started weighing my food more regularly...I put less on my plate then I expect to eat and log it. Then if I get more I add it in.
For example last night I had 4oz of steak, 4 oz potatoes, 7 oz veggies...
Ate it all (it was yummy) then went back and ate more steak...1.5 oz (no veggies left I ate them all)...easy peazy.
Now if you think you are hungrier then you are measure what is left over and subtract it...
I think this is good... if you underestimate your cals, how do you know if you're hitting your nutritional needs? It's easier to take a little and then get yourself more if you want it.
I also like the idea of putting food in the fridge as "free food" (if you think you'd actually eat it). Then you don't have to worry abt measuring out how much you didn't eat and subtracting and all that.0 -
The 'problem' I keep having is I weigh/measure my food and often times don't eat it all.
Its not a problem really, I can just give myself less food/get more if I want more. The question I have is how do other people handle this in regards to logging food?
Are you someone who is obsessive about accuracy? Or just guess-timate your portions actually consumed?
For example I just measured out 3/4 cup of spaghetti squash and a 1/4 cup of sauce and did not eat all of it, but I logged all of it.
Just curious how other people deal with this A friend of mine says she just forces herself to eat it all. Shes logging it and keep at her calories and eats it even if she is full.
I do this, too. I figure the few times I don't eat everything I log will in part make up for the times I eat a small amount of something un-loggable (taste of sauce while I'm cooking, ONE french fry off my son's plate). I suppose it all evens out in the end. I lost almost thirty pounds this way, so it must work, right?
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I weigh everything so the leftover amount is easily subtracted if I don't finish it. Normally this does not happen as I tend to put less on my plate thus forcing myself to have to go and get more if I am still hungry. Occasionally when 'putting it back' isn't an option I will save it for later and use it as 'free food'.
One of the biggest hurdles that I had to get over when I started down this path was getting out of the mindset that I HAD to eat everything - and clean everyone else's plates for them as well. It was easily the most destructive habit I had and much of the reason I got as big as I did.0 -
I don't force myself to eat the entire thing if I'm no longer hungry. I put the remaining food in a container and save it for later, if there is a considerable about of food but if it's just a little bit leftover I just ditch it. I had school officials when I was a kid that forced me to eat when I wasn't hungry because they felt I was too small and felt my parents weren't feeding me correctly at home which was an incorrect assumption. As a result, even years later, if I say I don't want something and it's put on my plate, I have been known to throw a fit and demand it's taken off my plate or I will not eat anything on that plate. hahaha sounds stupid I know but....I was impacted by the school officials forcing me to eat when I wasn't hungry. Side note: As soon as I notified my mother of what was going on with the school and lunch she went in and told them they had to stop doing that because she was afraid it would cause food issues, I guess she was right to be afraid of that.0
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What's a leftover?0
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I prepare smaller portions that I know I can eat, and eat more regularly.
Plus, working out makes me extremely hungry so I know I'll definitely eat it!0 -
I like the idea of "free food" too...putting it in the fridge for later...esp lately I am famished now and just finished lunch about 1.5 hours ago...mind you there was none left...0
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I'm a guesstimator. On rare occasions I will measure something just to verify that I'm close to knowing what a tablespoon or cup looks like.
If I don't want to eat everything on my plate, I don't eat it. If I want more, I get seconds.
I have no interest in spending time measuring food.0 -
Why would anyone force themselves to eat it all?? If you're full you're full!
I guestimate what I eat for the most part. I've never really had problems with portion size...my problem is more WHAT kinds of food I eat so I'm normally quite good at self-regulating portion size.
That said, I've been losing weight/inches and changes physically quite consistently. If I'd been eating better for, say, a month and hadn't seen any changes I would definitely be looking at weighing my food/getting stricter about it.
One of the things I do for foods I'm not too sure the calorie count on I weigh out the amount I would normally be eating and from there I know roughly how much to pour out of x food to make 30g (for instance if I have cereal for breakfast I know what 40g looks like just at a glance - give or take a few grams!).
If I haven't eaten everything I've logged I just guess at roughly how much I left behind on my plate. If it was about 1/3 left over then I log that I only had 0.6/7 of the meal (ie. 0.6/7 of jacket potato with x and x)
Guessing is fine. But if you're ever struggling to get weight off one of the first things one should look at is portion size & accuracy!0 -
I'm sorry I read that your title in my mother's voice .. though there was usually a reward at the end .. "to get dessert!"
Fortunately my parents did not torture me with that!! I had one relative who babysat me for a weekend and made me eat everything I put on my plate, and I definitely overscooped. I was probably around 6 years old. haha, one of those memories....
Actually, at the time it wasn't torture, I didn't get to where I was leaving food on my plate.
I'm glad it wasn't torture for you!! I can still envision my large plate of cashew chicken i had created for myself, turns out I didn't even like cashew chicken O-O0 -
The 'problem' I keep having is I weigh/measure my food and often times don't eat it all.
Its not a problem really, I can just give myself less food/get more if I want more. The question I have is how do other people handle this in regards to logging food?
Are you someone who is obsessive about accuracy? Or just guess-timate your portions actually consumed?
For example I just measured out 3/4 cup of spaghetti squash and a 1/4 cup of sauce and did not eat all of it, but I logged all of it.
Just curious how other people deal with this A friend of mine says she just forces herself to eat it all. Shes logging it and keep at her calories and eats it even if she is full.
I do this, too. I figure the few times I don't eat everything I log will in part make up for the times I eat a small amount of something un-loggable (taste of sauce while I'm cooking, ONE french fry off my son's plate). I suppose it all evens out in the end. I lost almost thirty pounds this way, so it must work, right?
Funny i'm at a 27 lb loss too at this point, SO I guess we must be doing something right!!0 -
Why would anyone force themselves to eat it all?? If you're full you're full!
I guestimate what I eat for the most part. I've never really had problems with portion size...my problem is more WHAT kinds of food I eat so I'm normally quite good at self-regulating portion size.
That said, I've been losing weight/inches and changes physically quite consistently. If I'd been eating better for, say, a month and hadn't seen any changes I would definitely be looking at weighing my food/getting stricter about it.
One of the things I do for foods I'm not too sure the calorie count on I weigh out the amount I would normally be eating and from there I know roughly how much to pour out of x food to make 30g (for instance if I have cereal for breakfast I know what 40g looks like just at a glance - give or take a few grams!).
If I haven't eaten everything I've logged I just guess at roughly how much I left behind on my plate. If it was about 1/3 left over then I log that I only had 0.6/7 of the meal (ie. 0.6/7 of jacket potato with x and x)
Guessing is fine. But if you're ever struggling to get weight off one of the first things one should look at is portion size & accuracy!
I'll do that too if what I'm not eating seems substantial!!0 -
What's a leftover?
:laugh: :laugh: :laugh:0 -
It's not always "silly" to keep eating if you're "full." I'm very precise about calculating my calories and macros, weighing and measuring food, and logging absolutely everything I eat. It is all planned very well so that I know when I sit down to eat a plate full of food, it's as close to being the exact amount of calories I'm supposed to eat (for my body and my goals) as I can get. So I may think I'm "full" when I've eaten half of my dinner, but I know if I don't eat all of it, something will not go well. I won't sleep as well I normally do, I'll be hungry way sooner than I should be the next day, or my training will be off.
Besides, I'm a great cook, and I'm not going to leave delicious food on the plate when it fits in my calorie/macro goals for the day. It just seems dumb.0 -
force it down!0
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