Logging a bite?
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LiftAllThePizzas wrote: »ncboiler89 wrote: »ncboiler89 wrote: »Sometimes, like in the case of sweets, 1 or 2 bites is enough to satisfy my craving for it. How the heck do you log a bite of something?
Also I should mention, that sometimes the food is in grams, while other times it's just one unit, like "One ice cream cone". (Yes, I take one bite from an ice cream cone haha)
Bite it. Spit it onto a scale, log it, then shove it back into your mouth. In the case of ice cream you may have to lick your scale to get it all back into your mouth.
Hahaha! Yeah, might not find it so appetizing after that anymore...
Ya but seriously. Why would you just not weigh whatever it is before and after you bite it. Or maybe I am missing something.
Because, how do you log one bite in mfp if the serving size of a cone in the database is: "1 cone". If the bite is 5 grams...is that like 0.10 of 1 cone or something?
Are you talking about just the cone, or do you mean you are taking a bite of a cone filled with ice cream, thus eating ice cream and cone?
It's a cone ice cream. Or ice cream on a stick or something. Like a Magnum.
My hat's off to you! I could in no way just take "a bite" of a double chocolate Magnum
Well to be honest, when I buy a magnum, I take all the ice cream off the stick, place in a tupperware container, break the chocolate into the ice cream as much as possible, and freeze. When I have a craving, I take one or two bites with my little teaspoon and call it a day. When it comes to cones, same thing, I just crush the whole thing to tiny little pieces.
I'm also making Nutella fudge balls today. Which is teaspoon fulls of Nutella, refridgerated, and then when it's hardened, formed into balls. Hahaha0 -
Haha exactly!TheOwlhouseDesigns wrote: »i would eat the whole cone to avoid the problem.
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Well to be honest, when I buy a magnum, I take all the ice cream off the stick, place in a tupperware container, break the chocolate into the ice cream as much as possible, and freeze. When I have a craving, I take one or two bites with my little teaspoon and call it a day. When it comes to cones, same thing, I just crush the whole thing to tiny little pieces.
I'm also making Nutella fudge balls today. Which is teaspoon fulls of Nutella, refridgerated, and then when it's hardened, formed into balls. Hahaha
Well, then, that's easy.
My kitchen scale has a feature. I turn it on, set a bowl on it, and when the scale shows the weight of the bowl, I click the On button again, and it zeroes the scale. Then I spoon in my yogurt.
Get a scale like that (they aren't expensive) ... put a bowl on the scale, zero it, and spoon as much ice cream as you want into the bowl and thus ... weigh the ice cream.
You know how much one Magnum is, so if it is 200 grams (just guessing), and you eat 20 grams, you're eating 1/10th. Divide the calories for 200 grams by 10 and you've got the calories for your 20 grams.
Same with the nutella. Weigh your bowl, zero the scale, drop in a nutella fudge ball, and voila ... your answer.
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OP do you own any scales???...why would you not weigh stuff if you do...lol.....if you do not have any...and don't want any...then the next time you "break your magnum in to little pieces", count how many trips to the bowl you have...then devide by the full amount for said magnum.....same with your nutty balls........how many do you make from a full jar, divide a jars worth into how many balls you have.....
Or stop eating the bits....and have an Apple instead....or a grape if you like small things......lol....
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Ice cream cone is not really calorie-dense because it's light-weight and is 50 calories at most, so in the grand scheme of things you don't need to be accurate about one bite. If you don't feel like doing the math, just look at the cone and estimate how much you bit off. What's the margin of error in a bite anyway, 2? 3 calories? Even foods weighed and logged properly can differ by more than that due to varying compositions.0
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It depends. A lick of my son's ice cream to stop it melting down the cone I'm not going to add but a teaspoon of Nutella I would.
A bite of cake - I can't be arsed to look that up or work it out so I either just have a slice and make it worth the effort or I don't take the bite!0 -
Its easy just make an educated guess, it adds up and you wnat to be accurate. Tbh soemtimes I cant be bothered, depends what it is.0
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and this is why I don't take bites...if I get ice cream I eat it all...I mean really a small bar is what 200 calories.
If I were in your shoes I would just log it (ice cream bar) at the start of the week knowing I was going to eat it through the week.
Weekly calorie counts are more important than daily even monthly...so if you are over on a day but don't have to log the bites daily makes your weekly diary accurate...
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Thanks for all the suggestions. I think I'll just quick add 100 calories. May be more may be less, but if it is, I only eat half my exercise calories back anyhow. So there's some cushioning.
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Or I'll just add the whole thing's calories in one go like someone else said0
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Or I'll just add the whole thing's calories in one go like someone else said0
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How many "bites" are you having per day? If it's just 1-2 I'd quick add 100 cals and be done with it.0
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That's true, but I only eat a treat after mine have already been met for the day, which is why I don't worry too much. What difference does a miniature snickers make anyhow. Haha0 -
That's true, but I only eat a treat after mine have already been met for the day, which is why I don't worry too much. What difference does a miniature snickers make anyhow. Haha
Might boost my fat macro by 3-4, which is a good thing. I always struggle with getting enough fat.0 -
Little bites here and there can get you into trouble quickly. The show "Secret Eaters" has tackled this one before where someone was preparing dinner and taking a bite or two every so often and wound up eating somewhere around 400 calories before dinner.
Presumably the food in question is not celery, therefore it is probably calorie dense and not all that nutritious and should be measured. Foods like these generally have a small serving size and a bite is usually about 1 serving.0 -
That's true, but I only eat a treat after mine have already been met for the day, which is why I don't worry too much. What difference does a miniature snickers make anyhow. Haha
I prelog my week and my "treat" is always logged right after my breakfast as both are pretty standard. My diary is open if you want to see what I mean.
As for the mini snickers...1 a day for a year is 4lbs. So over a ten year period....40lbs...
But this is one of the reasons I prelog a serving everyday and if I don't eat it all oh well there will come a day when I do eat that days serving plus what was left from previous days....0 -
That's true, but I only eat a treat after mine have already been met for the day, which is why I don't worry too much. What difference does a miniature snickers make anyhow. Haha
I prelog my week and my "treat" is always logged right after my breakfast as both are pretty standard. My diary is open if you want to see what I mean.
As for the mini snickers...1 a day for a year is 4lbs. So over a ten year period....40lbs...
But this is one of the reasons I prelog a serving everyday and if I don't eat it all oh well there will come a day when I do eat that days serving plus what was left from previous days....
I know weight wise, I was meaning as far as macros are concerned they don't make much difference. I do log them, otherwise I would not have made this thread, but I can't prelog a treat, because I never crave the same thing. I don't want to log a cookie and then at treat time I'm craving a chocolate haha.0
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