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The scale :worst enemy. HELP!

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  • chicalatina4eva3
    chicalatina4eva3 Posts: 43 Member
    kyrannosaurus wrote: »
    Your logging seems pretty poor... how did you measure 0.13 cups of cheese? How is it that every time you eat a piece of chicken it weighs exactly 200g?

    Using cups to measure is probably doing you a huge disservice.

    Try weighing your food, all of it, on a digital scale in grams. It is quicker than trying to get stuff in measuring cup and you don't have to wash all those cups afterwards.
    chicalatina4eva3 wrote: »
    malibu927 wrote: »
    Are you logging everything you eat/drink? How do you determine how much you're eating? Do you eat back your exercise calories, and if so how much? How do you determine how much you're burning?

    I am using a wet measuring cups for all liquids and dry measuring cup for all solids. I often weigh my meals to scale. I opened my diary to view my logs. I am logging everything.I only mainly drink water or freshly brewed unsweetened loose teas.

    Also what is a "wet measuring cup" versus a "dry measuring cup"?
    A cup is a unit of measurement for volume. There is no such thing as a "wet" or "dry" cup. A cup is always 250ml which is why it's only accurate for liquids.
    There are two types of measuring cups.. One for soilds ( or flour when baking something )
    Other that is for liquids.

  • chicalatina4eva3
    chicalatina4eva3 Posts: 43 Member
    Machka9 wrote: »
    chicalatina4eva3 wrote: »
    But I seem to be gaining weight faster than ever! From May 2 to June 2 I gained 10 pounds. What is going on? Help me please!!?!!

    In order to do that, you would have to be consuming more than you burn.

    The usual tips:
    -- estimate really low on the calories you're burning with exercise.
    -- weigh everything.
    -- be meticulously accurate about logging everything, even the half a muffin you share with a co-worker at morning tea (not saying that's the case, just giving an example).

    Question 1 ... do you drink alcohol?

    Question 2 ... you don't have anything recorded for the period between May 2 to June 2. Has your diet changed since then and have you lost weight since then?

  • chicalatina4eva3
    chicalatina4eva3 Posts: 43 Member
    I do log everything .. Down to the last cal.
    It may be that I need to scale everything.
    I don't drink. Haven't had a single alcoholic beverage since Christmas maybe. The reason why there is no log for June and may is BC I wasn't counting calories. I just started up at the end of June BC of the crazy weight gain in may-june.
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