I guess I was a little off

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  • FlabFighter86
    FlabFighter86 Posts: 233 Member
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    Cereal. So now I just buy weetabix. It's really low in sugar, and it saves measuring.
  • PoisonDartFrog
    PoisonDartFrog Posts: 220 Member
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    I measure everything with significant calories....I eyeball things with minimun calories....
    Eyeball....lettuce, raw spinach, arugula, shreadded carrots, black coffee, water. jarred spices added to cooking

    I measure
    oil, salad dressing, recipe quantities (other than spices), etc.
  • doctorsookie
    doctorsookie Posts: 1,084 Member
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    VODKA... 1 0Z IS SO MUCH MORE THAN I THOUGHT IT WAS.... HOORAY!:drinker:
  • sabified
    sabified Posts: 1,051 Member
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    pretty much everything! I've started eating things in my measuring cups. Dual purpose, now I know I've measured correctly, and won't dirty a bowl! :-)

    lol, I think I'll need to start this as well
  • Francl27
    Francl27 Posts: 26,371 Member
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    If you're eating out of measuring cups, you're doing it wrong. They can be up to 30% inaccurate.

    I never use measuring cups. I weigh everything. And even after 9 months of that, I still fail at eyeballing most of the time.
  • Lonestar5775
    Lonestar5775 Posts: 740 Member
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    pretty much everything! I've started eating things in my measuring cups. Dual purpose, now I know I've measured correctly, and won't dirty a bowl! :-)

    Best post of the day! Reminds of my bachelor days :-) Eat out of different dishes until there are no more left and you have to wash them!
  • Francl27
    Francl27 Posts: 26,371 Member
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    If you're eating out of measuring cups, you're doing it wrong. They can be up to 30% inaccurate.

    I never use measuring cups. I weigh everything. And even after 9 months of that, I still fail at eyeballing most of the time.
  • PapaverSomniferum
    PapaverSomniferum Posts: 2,677 Member
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    i tended to overestimate butter and salad dressing

    and way underestimate pasta and wine
  • jontay81
    jontay81 Posts: 39 Member
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    Get a food scale and weigh it out. It's much more accurate.
  • spoiledpuppies
    spoiledpuppies Posts: 675 Member
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    I've been weighing almost everything in grams right from the start, so I haven't been surprised by much. But I used to measure peanut butter by the tablespoon. Now I weigh it, and it's amazing how the weighed serving does not even come close to filling the physical tablespoon.

    I also thought about eating some hummus yesterday. When I weighed out a serving, I decided that it wasn't even worth eating it.
  • cwolfman13
    cwolfman13 Posts: 41,867 Member
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    Pretty much everything...but I've gotten a lot better over the last year or so...I can eyeball it and throw it on the scale and I'm usually within a couple grams for most things these days. I still throw it on the scale though...cheese is very tempting to eyeball a little extra.
  • skinnyinnotime
    skinnyinnotime Posts: 4,141 Member
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    I keep overestimating cheese, which is a good thing!
  • Serah87
    Serah87 Posts: 5,481 Member
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    pretty much everything! I've started eating things in my measuring cups. Dual purpose, now I know I've measured correctly, and won't dirty a bowl! :-)

    I don't do measuring cups, I find they are just as much off too.
  • cuinboston2014
    cuinboston2014 Posts: 848 Member
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    Probably most off on coffee creamer.

    Truthfully I'm probably WAY off with wine. I, however, will never measure wine.
  • lavaughan69
    lavaughan69 Posts: 459 Member
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    pretty much everything! I've started eating things in my measuring cups. Dual purpose, now I know I've measured correctly, and won't dirty a bowl! :-)

    I don't do measuring cups, I find they are just as much off too.

    I've read a lot about weighing vs. measuring cups, and I do weigh all my meats, but I just prefer my measuring cups. I've not had a plateau and I'm down 40lbs, so I would say that the inaccuracy hasn't been an issue for me.
  • Sabine_Stroehm
    Sabine_Stroehm Posts: 19,263 Member
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    pretty much everything! I've started eating things in my measuring cups. Dual purpose, now I know I've measured correctly, and won't dirty a bowl! :-)

    I don't do measuring cups, I find they are just as much off too.

    I've read a lot about weighing vs. measuring cups, and I do weigh all my meats, but I just prefer my measuring cups. I've not had a plateau and I'm down 40lbs, so I would say that the inaccuracy hasn't been an issue for me.
    When I was counting I didn't weigh either. I felt that learning what worked with measuring cups was more sustainable in real life, since I'll never have a scale at restaurants.
    But again, ymmv.
  • Nico_the_enabler
    Nico_the_enabler Posts: 123 Member
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    I underestimated fish, over estimated cheese. but by far the worst... gravy. I am Not going to separate it from the casserole meat to weigh or measure it. lol. But I am going to eat ALL THE GRAVY. jus saying. lol
  • lavaughan69
    lavaughan69 Posts: 459 Member
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    If you're eating out of measuring cups, you're doing it wrong. They can be up to 30% inaccurate.

    Once again, I'm losing weight and haven't stalled, so although weighing is definitely more accurate, if it's important to lump people into the right or wrong category with nothing in-between, using measuring cups hasn't been detrimental to my weight loss.

    I think when going on this weight loss journey we all need to find what works best for creating a lifestyle. We also need to be flexible so if I find myself stalling out I will make adjustments and consider weighing more often. I do weigh meat, and oddly, french fries ;-)
  • leooftheyear
    leooftheyear Posts: 429 Member
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    If you're eating out of measuring cups, you're doing it wrong. They can be up to 30% inaccurate.

    Once again, I'm losing weight and haven't stalled, so although weighing is definitely more accurate, if it's important to lump people into the right or wrong category with nothing in-between, using measuring cups hasn't been detrimental to my weight loss.

    I think when going on this weight loss journey we all need to find what works best for creating a lifestyle. We also need to be flexible so if I find myself stalling out I will make adjustments and consider weighing more often. I do weigh meat, and oddly, french fries ;-)

    Agreed, if something doesn't work for you, you're not gonna stick with it in the long run
  • gigglesinthesun
    gigglesinthesun Posts: 860 Member
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    actually vegetables.

    I am a vegetarian and I eat a lot of salads and stirfrys. I used to use measuring cups for most of my veggies and I was losing weight, so it was a non issue, but I was worried that I wasn't eating enough (logged about 1100 calories a day, I am small so again not as disastrous as it might sound, and I was full and full of energy). I had always weighed cheese and avocado, so I thought I might as well go all out. I started weighing and all of a sudden I was actually logging 1350-1450 every day and that difference was all vegetables. So yeah, I was a little off too :-)

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