Food scale

thoyle2015
thoyle2015 Posts: 23 Member
edited November 2024 in Health and Weight Loss
Hi
So I'm new to using a food scale. Do you weigh absolutely everything you eat? Do you do weight it cooked or raw? And this may sound stupid but we have a postage scale if I put a dish on it and aubtract the weight of the dish does this act the same as a food scale?

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  • queenliz99
    queenliz99 Posts: 15,317 Member
    Is the scale digital? and answer to first question is weigh meat raw.
  • thoyle2015
    thoyle2015 Posts: 23 Member
    Yes it's digital
    queenliz99 wrote: »
    Is the scale digital? and answer to first question is weigh meat raw.



  • maxit
    maxit Posts: 880 Member
    I weigh the food I eat at home - it's really helped clean up my portion-estimates when I am out, too. I weigh food raw, even if I am cooking using a cup measure. Any scale that is digital, can toggle between grams and oz (if you are using that metric), and can adjust to tare is good. My scale goes up to 5# so it's easy to weigh a food container and then portion out a specific # of grams or oz of a thing.
  • ana3067
    ana3067 Posts: 5,623 Member
    Do you weigh absolutely everything you eat? Yes.

    Cooked or raw? Doesn't matter. I do both - use the correct corresponding entry. I weigh raw if I'm cooking a single individual portion for myself but if I cook e.g. a huge salmon, I weigh cooked and use cooked information.

    postage scale? yes it will in effect act the same as a food scale.
  • thoyle2015
    thoyle2015 Posts: 23 Member
    Thank you all!!
  • sheldonklein
    sheldonklein Posts: 854 Member
    There is no harm in weighing "everything," other than finding it unpleasant, but there is no need to weigh everything unless you find it necessary to meet your weight loss goals. I weigh calorie dense foods that are not self-portioned. In broad terms, I always weigh meat, dairy, pasta, dried fruit. I weigh many other things if convenient. I generally don't weigh most vegetables, because the calories are so low -- it is immaterial exactly how many grams of spinach or lettuce I have. Likewise, I don't weigh fruits that are self portioned -- 1 banana, 1 apple, 1 carrot etc... because the variation from the standard calorie count is immaterial and because for various reasons, I am convinced it is actually more accurate to use the standard measure for a banana than to weigh individual bananas. I sure as hell don't weigh virtually calorie free foods such as mustard or vinegar.
  • NikonPal
    NikonPal Posts: 1,346 Member
    I weigh pretty much everything when I am home. Weighing is more accurate than measuring. I can honestly say – I will use a scale the rest of my life.

    I do not find it a pain at all. After you do it for a month or 2, you’ll find your own best way. I generally weigh out all my ingredients at the start– then cook without jumping back & forth to the app.

    I watch my servings of “some” zero calorie items. For instance - "I Can't Believe It's Not Butter" spray has “0” calories for a couple sprays, but the entire bottle = 900 calories! I don’t drive myself nuts on this, but you should be aware.
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    When I am out to eat, I use the typical “palm of hand” (1 serving = 3 oz. of meat/fish); Cupped hand = ½ cup of veggies etc. This is also something I don’t get crazy about – once you start measuring at home a lot – you will be able to come pretty close.

    Good luck -

    You might like this short Mayo Clinic article: http://www.mayoclinic.org/healthy-living/weight-loss/in-depth/calories/art-20048065?pg=2

    My own story is at: http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10080664/lost-191-lbs-photos-success-after-999-failures/p1

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