I love measuring!

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oddyogi
oddyogi Posts: 1,816 Member
edited September 2024 in Health and Weight Loss
Ever since I started MFP I have been counting my calories like a kindergartener learning to count.. and I love it! I bought a food scale over a year ago that I've never even used until now. It's amazing! My husband and I also bought extra sets of measuring cups and spoons. 1200 seems so low that I want to get EVERY morsel I can without going over a tbsp, or a cup.

I somehow find all this measuring and weighing of my food fun.. does anyone else do this?

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  • oddyogi
    oddyogi Posts: 1,816 Member
    I forgot to mention.. it really amazes me what a normal bowl of cereal looks like with a cup of cereal and cup of milk.. all these years I think I was eating about 600 calories worth of cereal when I should have only been eating 250!
  • kaymd
    kaymd Posts: 470 Member
    Before my husband started doing this with me he thought I was crazy for measuring everything I ate. He thought it was a waste of my time but then he saw it really was working for me. He joined MFP! For Christmas I asked for a food scale and surprisingly he bought me one. Now I am having fun measuring everything from meat to pasta to veggies and fruit. I want to get every calorie out of my good food that I can.
  • gehlerc
    gehlerc Posts: 651 Member
    I've been obsessive about measuring, also. Actually, I had to laugh when I read your post. This is my third week on MFP and, although I already owned at least two full sets of measuring cups and 3 full sets of measuring spoons, yesterday I went out and bought another set of each! I was also looking at food scales. I owned one years ago, but it was very cheap and I don't think it was accurate. So, now I'm in the market for a food scale which will accurately measure out my 3 oz. of chicken breast (or whatever). That's what I'm lacking now; I've been eyeballing my fish / chicken / etc. portions (according to The Mayo Clinic Diet book guidelines), but I'm not satisfied with that.

    Any recommendations on a food scale?

    Good luck to you, my comrade in measuring!

    Coni
  • sarahanne40
    sarahanne40 Posts: 69 Member
    Wow, I'm exactly the same! I started to count the calories I was intaking, then bought a digital scale, then invested in some colourful measuring cups (we dont normally use them over here in the UK - but alot of the American brand foods gets measured like this!), which I now hang proudly over the cooker.

    I have even started to compile a little list on the side of our kitchen notice board of how many grams there are for types of food per cup etc! I too found the cereal I have is way more 'expensive' on the calories then I had figured! But I'm too tight to chuck out the old one tils its all used up (I tend to stock up on the value sized bags, d'uh!) - so I have much smaller portions now!!
  • PercyPig
    PercyPig Posts: 318
    I forgot to mention.. it really amazes me what a normal bowl of cereal looks like with a cup of cereal and cup of milk.. all these years I think I was eating about 600 calories worth of cereal when I should have only been eating 250!

    OMG I discovered the same thing the other day! I weighed my "standard" bowl of cereal and realised it wasn't the 30g as it says on the packet but almost 100g!
  • oddyogi
    oddyogi Posts: 1,816 Member
    I've been obsessive about measuring, also. Actually, I had to laugh when I read your post. This is my third week on MFP and, although I already owned at least two full sets of measuring cups and 3 full sets of measuring spoons, yesterday I went out and bought another set of each!
    ...

    Any recommendations on a food scale?

    Anything I ever want to buy, MOST of the time I look on Amazon for the best priced and best rated product! That's where I got my food scale. :-)

    Also.. we now own about 3-4 sets of measuring spoons and cups as well! =P
  • oddyogi
    oddyogi Posts: 1,816 Member
    I have even started to compile a little list on the side of our kitchen notice board of how many grams there are for types of food per cup etc!

    That's a great idea! I have a wipe-off board on my fridge, and I think I'm going to do that!
  • oddyogi
    oddyogi Posts: 1,816 Member
    It's just crazy how NORMAL portions look small to me after measuring them because all in all, Americans' portion sizes are WAY too huge! I'll never look at 3 oz of meat the same.. lol
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