Now that you weigh your food

natalialikescookies
natalialikescookies Posts: 72 Member
edited November 20 in Health and Weight Loss
what were some of the biggest serving size surprises? Both small and big?

I was making a smoothie for my son and decided to weigh the dallop of peanut butter just for fun ( I don't eat pb because I don't have self control when it comes to it), thinking I had about 2tbs, when I really had over 4!!! Holy smokes!
Also, cheese! I was grating cheese for my salad and that ounce came really fast!

What were some of your biggest surprises??

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  • panda4153
    panda4153 Posts: 418 Member
    My yogurt is almost always less then what the package says, good for calories but sometimes I'm like "hey, I paid for 150g" haha
  • SezxyStef
    SezxyStef Posts: 15,267 Member
    cereal in a bad way.

    cottage cheese in a good way.
  • FlyingMolly
    FlyingMolly Posts: 490 Member
    When I tracked for the very first time (about a million years ago), I thought 1350 calories was soooo much food. I mean, I spent the whole day grazing on potato chips and candy like I always did, and still had room for two solid meals!

    It was quite the shock when those packs of junk food ran out in a day or two, and I realized that what I had logged as 4-5 servings was more like 11-15. I honestly believed I was being generous with my estimates, so that's when I figured out that I needed a food scale.
  • Kalikel
    Kalikel Posts: 9,603 Member
    What shocks me the most is that I didn't gain more weight.

    If you accept the generally accepted numbers for calories and pounds, I should've gained a lot more than I did.
  • 85Cardinals
    85Cardinals Posts: 733 Member
    I get way more peanut butter and shredded cheese per serving by weighing than I ever got from my guesstimates. I must be a pessimist by nature.
  • Ninkyou
    Ninkyou Posts: 6,666 Member
    Cheese :(
  • maasha81
    maasha81 Posts: 733 Member
    Another vote for cheese yet the amount of veggies and watermelon I can eat. Lol
  • Gska17
    Gska17 Posts: 752 Member
    Another cheese person here. Shocking.

    Cereal too.

    I'm thinking about getting a travel food scale. When I visit my mom I won't have to eyeball things. My husband can use the regular scale while I'm gone.
  • BWBTrish
    BWBTrish Posts: 2,817 Member
    i vote for more cheese, ice cream and ....and...oh who am i kidding
    I want more of everything!
  • maasha81
    maasha81 Posts: 733 Member
    Another vote for cheese yet the amount of veggies and watermelon I can eat. Lol
  • diannethegeek
    diannethegeek Posts: 14,776 Member
    Let's just say that MFP and I have very different ideas about what qualifies as a "medium" sweet potato.
  • callsitlikeiseeit
    callsitlikeiseeit Posts: 8,626 Member
    Peanut butter and cereal :( lol
  • Vanilla_Lattes
    Vanilla_Lattes Posts: 251 Member
    I actually got to eat more when I got a food scale. Food pessimist here too.
  • SimoneBee12
    SimoneBee12 Posts: 268 Member
    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.
  • arditarose
    arditarose Posts: 15,573 Member
    I don't think I was too surprised by anything because I had already been reading about that stuff on here first. I think actually SEEING the peanut butter on the scale was quite depressing though.
  • ljk0615
    ljk0615 Posts: 160 Member
    28 g of bleu cheese crumbles is actually a decent amount of bleu cheese. and I have discovered that I love bleu cheese. Oh and feta crumbles too.
  • barbecuesauce
    barbecuesauce Posts: 1,771 Member
    Vegetables/chicken/fish had all been consistently under-eyeballed by me. Same with cottage cheese and berries. I learned a "small banana" is a ridiculous idea, because I've had bananas of the same length weigh in very differently. I also learned that I was eating small/half servings of shredded cheese and butter all along.

    I was surprised at how little hummus you get for 28 grams. Trail mix is depressing. Tortilla chips--a serving of potato chips is a fairly large amount of food to me, but there are never enough tortilla chips to make it worth my while. Eggs are never 75 calories--always more. Same with most packaged goods.

    I also learned that I am really, really good at sticking my knife in a jar of peanut butter and coming out with a half-serving. And I'm good at slicing one ounce of cheese.
  • arditarose
    arditarose Posts: 15,573 Member
    barbecuesauce wrote: »
    Vegetables/chicken/fish had all been consistently under-eyeballed by me. Same with cottage cheese and berries. I learned a "small banana" is a ridiculous idea, because I've had bananas of the same length weigh in very differently. I also learned that I was eating small/half servings of shredded cheese and butter all along.

    I was surprised at how little hummus you get for 28 grams. Trail mix is depressing. Tortilla chips--a serving of potato chips is a fairly large amount of food to me, but there are never enough tortilla chips to make it worth my while. Eggs are never 75 calories--always more. Same with most packaged goods.

    I also learned that I am really, really good at sticking my knife in a jar of peanut butter and coming out with a half-serving. And I'm good at slicing one ounce of cheese.

    You find your eggs to be weighing more than 50 grams quite often?
  • Liftng4Lis
    Liftng4Lis Posts: 15,151 Member
    pasta (way more) peanut butter (way less)
  • hollbert90
    hollbert90 Posts: 8 Member
    A bowl of cereal always looks disappointingly small when I weigh it. Also, another vote for cheese.
  • zdyb23456
    zdyb23456 Posts: 1,706 Member
    Kalikel wrote: »
    What shocks me the most is that I didn't gain more weight.

    If you accept the generally accepted numbers for calories and pounds, I should've gained a lot more than I did.

    This.
  • Toadstool_
    Toadstool_ Posts: 120 Member
    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.
  • Angierae75
    Angierae75 Posts: 417 Member
    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.

  • Soopatt
    Soopatt Posts: 563 Member
    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.
  • spatulamom
    spatulamom Posts: 158 Member
    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.
  • ForeverSunshine09
    ForeverSunshine09 Posts: 966 Member
    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.
  • daniellepstewart209
    daniellepstewart209 Posts: 32 Member
    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 always
  • sherbear702
    sherbear702 Posts: 650 Member
    Pasta. 2 oz of pasta is awfully small and packed with calories. This makes me very sad.
  • shawnmstout
    shawnmstout Posts: 131 Member
    diannethegeek wrote: »
    Let's just say that MFP and I have very different ideas about what qualifies as a "medium" sweet potato.

    +1
  • AngryViking1970
    AngryViking1970 Posts: 2,847 Member
    Nuts. An ounce of cashews is not a lot of cashews.
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