Logging Accurately..step by step guide

Wow...this is terrific--THANK YOU so much for posting this! :flowerforyou:

It's probably already been mentioned somewhere in this thread, but I have a food scale that I use heavily, and I will frequently weight out food that already has portion-controlled nutritional information - AND IT'S NEVER ACCURATE. Example: a pre-sliced slice of cheese on the package was listed at something like "1 slice, 21g, 70 calories". I weighed a slice on my scale to be 32 grams.

Small details, but it just goes to show that when in doubt, weigh away.

It's probably already been mentioned somewhere in this thread, but I have a food scale that I use heavily, and I will frequently weight out food that already has portion-controlled nutritional information - AND IT'S NEVER ACCURATE. Example: a pre-sliced slice of cheese on the package was listed at something like "1 slice, 21g, 70 calories". I weighed a slice on my scale to be 32 grams.

Small details, but it just goes to show that when in doubt, weigh away.

I so totally agree...I weigh it if it's in my house just because I tested some stuff like that....boggles my mind.

I have found the same. Especially with things like bread - the size of a slice will depend on whether you're at the beginning/end of a loaf or the middle so I weigh my bread then calculate a percentage based on actual weight and the weight suggested on the pack. For example, my bread is supposed to be 50g, but when I weigh a slice it's actually 45g, I will log it as 0.9 slice rather than 1 slice. The same goes for many other products. The nutritional information given on a pack is based on the average weight of the item when they calculated the nutritional values. In reality, it is likely to be different.

ETA: corrected spelling error

Thanks for the info. One question though. I tend to make alot of homemade soups on the weekend and bring to work for lunch during the week. How do I measure each bowl full of soup? I don't usually measure my vegetables, I just cut them and put them in until I think it's enough. So when I spoon it out in the mornings to bring to work, there's no way to measure how much of each vegetable/meat I'm eating...... Any ideas?

You're probably best weighing all the dry ingredients before you cook them. When it's cooked, weigh the entire lot and portion it out. Then weigh your portions and log it as a percentage of the overall weight. That's as accurate as you can get with a meal like that. If you portion out the lot when it's cooked, it saves you weighing/calculating every time you have a portion. I always put a label with weight/percentage on each portion in case they aren't all the same (chances are your last portion or 2 is slightly higher/lower than the rest)

Excellent post! Thanks for taking the time!! * flower for you *

Thank you so much for this info! I think it's going to transform my weight loss. Cheers!

How does one delete , meals from my own "added checked meals" from the past, want to eat clean, and want to delete the crap I used to eat, drop me a mail if you know how to do this? thanks

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The MFP app has food scanner, you use it when adding to your diary.

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