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Eating out......

Tanie98
Tanie98 Posts: 675 Member
edited March 4 in Fitness and Exercise
I try not to eat out too much and n prepare food at home but today I was in hurry and I forgot my food at home.Ibhave to buy somrthing for lunch at Lebanesse restraurant close to my work.The problem is I can't log and weigh this food .So how do you deal with days when you are away and weighing the food is not option.I have them here and there and I am worried that they are going to add up.

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  • Cherimoose
    Cherimoose Posts: 5,208 Member
    Not sure why you posted that here, but here goes.
    Use your experience from weighing food to eyeball the restaurant food and take an educated guess.
    If you haven't developed this skill, start guessing the weight of home-prepared foods BEFORE weighing them.. then weight them and see if you were right.
  • ukaryote
    ukaryote Posts: 850 Member
    Estimate the restaurant meal intake as best you can. Log it and move on.

    If you care to be more precise (I usually don't), here are other ideas:
    - Sometimes restaurants have nutrition estimates of their dishes, even if it is not posted. You could ask for it.
    - You could estimate the various ingredients and build a nutrition value for that dish.

    Example: I estimated the nutrition value of a noodle soup at a cafeteria:
    1 cup rice noodles
    1 cup bean sprouts
    3 oz chicken
    2 cups chicken broth (don't know what kind, used College Inn brand just because)
    Ignore the few lime leaves and onion pieces
  • zoeysasha37
    zoeysasha37 Posts: 7,088 Member
    If the restaurant has the nutritional values available, then go with that. But just know, that's still just a guess. It comes down to the way it was prepared and each chef will prepare things diffidently, for example one may use more oil where the other could use more butter and so on.
    So just do your best, make the best choices that you can, and move on. We can't let ourselves get caught up with being exact with the numbers all the time. Life happens, so just roll with it.
  • ME0172
    ME0172 Posts: 200
    Make a guess going higher than what you think it may be because it probably is. That or count it as a cheat day and not let it bother you. :)
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  • amusedmonkey
    amusedmonkey Posts: 10,330 Member
    A little bit of inaccuracy every once in a while is okay, as long as you don't make it into a habit. Just find something on MFP that looks close to what you had.
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