How do you guys eat?

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  • pyrowill
    pyrowill Posts: 1,163 Member
    Like this 1326308797_puppy_has_head_balancing_problems_while_eating.gif
  • Velum_cado
    Velum_cado Posts: 1,608 Member
    I estimate. I own a food scale - the old timey balance kind - but I only use it for measuring ingredients for baking. I've never weighed my portions.
  • trogalicious
    trogalicious Posts: 4,584 Member
    I used a food scale. You mention peanut butter specifically. My PB is 30g or 2 tbsps... but when weighed out, 2tbsps =/= 30g. Rather just be accurate.
  • Toblave
    Toblave Posts: 244 Member
    I measure or weigh almost everything if it's not already in a pre-measured serving. The only things that I don't always do that with are green veggies like broccoli, spinach, lettuce or cauliflower.
  • jacalennejax
    jacalennejax Posts: 97 Member
    Please.

    If you are really trying to do this.

    BUY A SCALE. I faught it for a while, but i got out all the common stuff I eat, and i took out what i though ta serving was ( a conservative serving in my opinion) and it was usually 1.5 to 2 servings over what I thought it was. Cereal is horrible, dressings are horrible, meat can be really tricky, rice and pasta definitly tricky.

    but buy the scale, I got two. I bought from Amazon, a pocket digital that i keep at work, and a larger one i keep on the counter at all times.

    Even when im really tired and i say **** it, i still end up weighing it and im always glad i did.
  • BeachIron
    BeachIron Posts: 6,490 Member
    (1) Weigh,

    (2) Prepare and/or cook, and

    (3) Cut and chew.
  • Ninkyou
    Ninkyou Posts: 6,666 Member
    Food scale all the way! Liquids/Condiments I usually measure though cause those are a PITA.
  • HelenTheZ
    HelenTheZ Posts: 42 Member
    Good ol' Weight Watchers has some "hand" measurements - a 3-oz serving of meat or fish is about the size of your palm (depends on your hand size, of course) - a thumb is about an oz., etc. I'd say a food scale would be a good way to start accurate "eyeball" judgment of what you're eating. You could see how the measurements really compare to your hand size.
  • Alex_is_Hawks
    Alex_is_Hawks Posts: 3,499 Member
    in the beginning I eyeballed it...i lost some....but not a lot....and my loss slowed quickly...

    then I measured everything....I lost more....but then it slowed...

    THEN i started weighing all my protein and fats and measuring my other foods....and I'm losing again after a plateau (I stalled since last November, so yes it was a plateau...but I have to honest and admit I didn't really try that hard to break it...i just kinda sorta tried until I started weighing and measuring a month ago)

    so yes...weigh everything and measure everything for optimal results...

    ultimately YOU have to decide what loss results you want...but for OPTIMAL results, yes weighing and measuring is key.
  • Myhaloslipped
    Myhaloslipped Posts: 4,317 Member
    I usually measure and sometimes look up the conversions online. I admit that I do eyeball quite a bit, but only because I cook all the time, so I'm usually pretty accurate with it. It works for me, but I hear that eyeballing amounts is not always a good thing.
  • GorillaNJ
    GorillaNJ Posts: 4,024 Member
    Voraciously...
  • UrbanLotus
    UrbanLotus Posts: 1,163 Member
    Weigh measure and count everything - except a few veggies like lettuce. I figure 2-3 calories here and there doesn't matter much, but for everything else, estimating or eyeballing can be serious mistakes.
  • UrbanLotus
    UrbanLotus Posts: 1,163 Member
    We have a small scale that I can use, no problem. So i'm not worried about that. People might just be like.... your weighing your chicken?

    What people? But more importantly, so what?
    And also I now count my wine glasses. Now that keeps me more honest. Eta: i also now use a measuring cup at home to properly get the correct 5 oz serving of wine. Apparently every glass I used to pour was more like a glass and a half. :-/

    I just ordered my mom some measuring wine glasses for her birthday! Got them from amazon, they are marked in oz on the glass, genius!
  • blackcloud13
    blackcloud13 Posts: 654 Member
    Mostly estimate.

    I do weigh a few things though, to get an idea so I can estimate them in future. Also, I eat lots off barcodes and restaurants/shops
  • AyanaSan
    AyanaSan Posts: 93 Member
    I weigh everything that is not a fruit/vegetable.
  • tomomatic
    tomomatic Posts: 1,794 Member
    (when I saw the original question, I was going to answer something like "through my mouth... but sometimes...just sometimes...")


    I just do my best to estimate. Sometimes I have to find a similar dish to a similar restaurant. If I'm eating nuts or chips, I'll count the nuts or chips. If I had a food scale, I'd use that.

    Logging your food shouldn't be stressful. I like to log my calories during breakfast to plan out the rest of my calories for the day. I like to know how much wiggle room I have for snacks... and plan the snacks accordingly.
  • ashleyinthecold
    ashleyinthecold Posts: 89 Member
    I'm a big fan of my digital scale. I weigh just about EVERYTHING. Especially those high calorie items like PB or Avocado. I found that I was overestimating how much avocado I was eating and underestimating GREATLY how much PB I was eating. After while, you're able to eyeball a lot of stuff, but it's fun sometimes to "guess" and then weigh it and see how close you are.

    Oh god.. that's fun? Is this what my life is coming to? Hahaha.
  • EmilyOfTheSun
    EmilyOfTheSun Posts: 1,548 Member
    I weigh erything.
  • WendyTerry420
    WendyTerry420 Posts: 13,274 Member
    Do you guys measure, weigh, or count everything? Or do you just estimate everything? I've been wondering because I just estimate and it seems to work fine because we use different measure cups at my house often so I can mostly tell how many TBSPs of peanut butter I am using when I make a sandwich.

    I measure some things, weigh some things, and estimate some things. It depends on the thing and the circumstances. Even if you weigh everything to the gram, you can still be slightly off. Being careful, honest, and consistent are what's important.
  • WendyTerry420
    WendyTerry420 Posts: 13,274 Member
    I used a food scale. You mention peanut butter specifically. My PB is 30g or 2 tbsps... but when weighed out, 2tbsps =/= 30g. Rather just be accurate.

    When I weighed 2 tbsp of PB, it came out 29g. Close enough. :smile:
  • trogalicious
    trogalicious Posts: 4,584 Member
    I used a food scale. You mention peanut butter specifically. My PB is 30g or 2 tbsps... but when weighed out, 2tbsps =/= 30g. Rather just be accurate.

    When I weighed 2 tbsp of PB, it came out 29g. Close enough. :smile:
    WHY ARE YOU JUDGING ME! YOU PEOPLE ARE SO MEAN! OH MY GO... just playin.
    :happy:

    I know. Just making a point that some folks have misconstrued ideas of what a tbsp is. Some folks use a tablespoon measure and just scoop it full... mounding over the top instead of leveling it.
  • JoRocka
    JoRocka Posts: 17,525 Member
    I cook my food- then I pull out the scale- and I tare it with my tupperwear on it- then I put 5 oz of chicken in it and 5 oz of veggies.

    Then for eggs- I always cook an even number of eggs + 1-2 cups veggie... then divide into an half the # of containers-
    10 eggs go into 5 tupperwears...
    8 into 4
    6 into 3

    That way I'm averaging 2 eggs per container.

    ice cream I weigh- fruit I ball park- or do per serving usuall- i'm not wildly concerned with fruit. I eat a crap load of watermelon- I always just ballpark it by the cupfull. It's just not that serious to me.

    I do measure my ice cream though. And count any "junk" food I consume.
  • DatMurse
    DatMurse Posts: 1,501 Member
    I dont count. I did before for maybe a month, but I am too lazy to count. I just eat less
  • bethannien
    bethannien Posts: 556 Member
    I was measuring everything in measuring cups. Then I read a thread on here about how innacurate that could be. I decided to measure out my customary quarter cup of almonds and then weigh it. I had an extra ounce of almonds beyond what I had been counting.
  • watfordjc
    watfordjc Posts: 304 Member
    Hmmm...

    I weight my oats and milk - best way to prevent the bowl overflowing in the microwave, and the amount of milk left is either 700 ml, 400 ml, or 100 ml depending on how many bowls of porridge I have from that litre.
    I measure my cinnamon with a teaspoon because shaking a bottle is not the best way to estimate a teaspoon.
    I weigh my melon slices and deduct the skin - don't know if the MFP entries are for flesh only or not, but prefer calories to be wrong than micros to be over-estimates; although I have estimated at times.
    I weigh bags of sweets, raisins, etc where I am not eating the whole lot in one sitting (same as with oats) so I'm not left with half a portion at the end of the bag.
    Everything else I estimate, although I use a tablespoon/teaspoon for me peanut butter, cottage cheese, etc. and the last time I weighed what I though was a tablespoon of PB was about 5 grams less than 15 grams, so assume they all even out over the course of a jar.
    My food isn't shared with anyone, so if I really wanted to see if my estimates were correct I'd just log when a jar/carton/pack/bag was opened and if I got the right number of servings out of it.
    All the bananas I eat are logged as medium. I believe the ones I bought today are small and the ones I bought a few days ago were large, and the ones I bought before that were extra small, but assume they all average out over time.
  • Naener
    Naener Posts: 167 Member
    I estimate everything, but i round everything out... exercise gets rounded down, food intake gets rounded up. Works so far... the only thing i measure out if my shakes and meal replacment drinks.

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