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Now that you weigh your food
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Bad: Cereal - I couldn't believe what a "serving" really was!!
Good: Potatoes! I always thought you would get less for your calories so was pleasantly surprised by these. Veggies too, I have always overestimated the weight.0 -
Cereal, definitely. A serving of cereal is so small I don't even bother unless I'm going to have a very active day and get the extra calories to make a "real" serving feasible.
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Pasta portions continue to disappoint me. I have worked out tricks for handling it mentally as I feel very sorry for myself when I have to remove some from the bowl when weighing.0
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The Kroger buffalo wings that I like as a treat are supposed to be 'about' 5 wings for 150 calories. When I weighed it, I was pretty disappointed to see that the actual serving size in grams is half of that. (And annoyed for all of the other times I ate them when I was actually eating twice the calories.)
OTOH, I was pleasantly surprised to see that my whipped cream cheese was a little more than I thought.0 -
I got more peanut butter, grated parmesan cheese
I got less cereal was probably the worst.
I was happy to find out my tablespoons were pretty spot on with butter.0 -
Most things were over estimated, apart from meat and fish for some reason! I was shocked at the calories of don'e things like wholemeal bread! They always say it's good for you but it's still as calorific as white! Again quite pleased at the watermelon cal/weight ! but hey j knew I was over estimating/ overeating as I needed to loose weight ! It's that simple. Now I'm so meticulous with weighing in grams/ml I make almost everything from scratch and even have a travel scale in my bag always0
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Pasta. 2 oz of pasta is awfully small and packed with calories. This makes me very sad.0
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diannethegeek wrote: »Let's just say that MFP and I have very different ideas about what qualifies as a "medium" sweet potato.
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Nuts. An ounce of cashews is not a lot of cashews.0
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My biggest shocks were wine and cheese. The glass my dh and I had been using for wine was DOUBLE the serving size on the food lists. omg. And cheese of course -- one ounce was tiny. Oh, and cereal definitely. Not enough for breakfast. Now I actually do eat cold cereal sometimes but I have it in a smaller bowl (so the bowl is full -- playing psychological tricks on myself) and I have it for a snack not for breakfast. -- Oh and also weighing out almonds or cashews gives me many fewer nuts than I had been eating.
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I was surprised to see that sliced bread actually weighs quite a bit more per slice than the package indicates (i.e. 45g slice is actually more like 50-55 at the small end of the loaf).0
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SimoneBee12 wrote: »Once I started weighing, I found that an oz of cheese was more than I expected, but I was literally shaving it paper thin, so that's probably why. I'm shocked by how little pasta is in a serving, even though I'm use to it now, it still seems so small!
Oh, and apples are heavier than they look! To me, anyways.
I agree with the apples. I had been totally clueless about how many calories were in them until I started weighing them. Now, I weigh as opposed to guessing small, med., large.0 -
I usually have almonds and some kind of fruit for my afternoon snack. When I was just starting out a few years ago, someone told me that a serving of almonds was about a handful so that's what I was packing and I was logging it as a 1 oz serving. Come to find out that my handful was around 2 oz so I was logging 160 calories but eating 320.-1
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My pb serving has shrunk BUT, it turns out my avocado estimates were way under, so that's a huge win! While it's obvious that underestimating calories isn't good, I think it's eye opening to realize that too much UNDERESTIMATING isn't great either if you never really feel full and don't know why.0
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Cereal (which is okay, I never eat it alone). Pasta (in a good way...1-1.5 servings was about what I would normally eat). 34 grams of peanut butter is actually a lot, too.0
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Cheese, Jam, Cereal, and Meat, i thought You can eat lots of meat cause its protein, was surprised how many calories it had0
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Peanut M&M's. A serving size of those is pathetic. When I want them, I have to save up the calories for 2-3 servings in order to get my "fix".0
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Rice. Rice is the only thing I consistantly, without fail, weigh at home - and I don't trust it enough to order it at restaurants.
I used to measure rice by cups. It turns out "1 cup" (based on how hungry I am and how tightly I've packed it in) can be 150 calories different from day-to-day.
I was pleasantly surprised by air-popped popcorn (no butter). Two hundred calories of that stuff lasts forever. Perfect on a movie night.0
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