for those of you who don't like to hear "buy a scale and weigh"
fishshark
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Please listen to the people who are telling you that. The people telling you this have experience and have been through something you are starting with and/or struggling with.
I myself was pretty hesitant to weigh my food (and I even had a scale already) I mean screw that its gonna take up soon much time I can't be bothered with that. Well I can't be bothered with being fat so I guess pick your poison? I don't have much weigh to lose (15-20 lbs) so because of that my deficit is small and needs to be precise. About 3 weeks ago I began to weigh things and it changed my life. I steadily lose, get to eat WHATEVER I WANT TO EAT, and now I'm actually pretty obsessed with weighing. There is also this magical button called "tare" so you don't need to ever weigh things separately... even making a sandwich takes the same amount of time.
Listen to these people and if you really want to lose is weighing food really to much to handle? If so then you are not ready.
Appreciate the advice, take the advice, listen... they are right and you are wrong. Why? Well their weight loss is proof enough for me.
I myself was pretty hesitant to weigh my food (and I even had a scale already) I mean screw that its gonna take up soon much time I can't be bothered with that. Well I can't be bothered with being fat so I guess pick your poison? I don't have much weigh to lose (15-20 lbs) so because of that my deficit is small and needs to be precise. About 3 weeks ago I began to weigh things and it changed my life. I steadily lose, get to eat WHATEVER I WANT TO EAT, and now I'm actually pretty obsessed with weighing. There is also this magical button called "tare" so you don't need to ever weigh things separately... even making a sandwich takes the same amount of time.
Listen to these people and if you really want to lose is weighing food really to much to handle? If so then you are not ready.
Appreciate the advice, take the advice, listen... they are right and you are wrong. Why? Well their weight loss is proof enough for me.
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I like weighing my food. I feel like a scientist.
(I'm being silly. It is fun for me though!)0 -
You're right! It kind of sucks to weigh everything when you're cooking a more complicated recipe, though.0
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LolaKarwowski wrote: »I like weighing my food. I feel like a scientist.
(I'm being silly. It is fun for me though!)
me too. I get excited when I get it right too. Today i perfectly got 50 grams of banana and cut exactly 3 oz of chicken breast last night. Its like a victory haha!0 -
Please listen to the people who are telling you that. The people telling you this have experience and have been through something you are starting with and/or struggling with.
I myself was pretty hesitant to weigh my food (and I even had a scale already) I mean screw that its gonna take up soon much time I can't be bothered with that. Well I can't be bothered with being fat so I guess pick your poison? I don't have much weigh to lose (15-20 lbs) so because of that my deficit is small and needs to be precise. About 3 weeks ago I began to weigh things and it changed my life. I steadily lose, get to eat WHATEVER I WANT TO EAT, and now I'm actually pretty obsessed with weighing. There is also this magical button called "tare" so you don't need to ever weigh things separately... even making a sandwich takes the same amount of time.
Listen to these people and if you really want to lose is weighing food really to much to handle? If so then you are not ready.
Appreciate the advice, take the advice, listen... they are right and you are wrong. Why? Well their weight loss is proof enough for me.
Game changer. Once I learned that function it made weighing my food so easy; no reason not to do it!0 -
I NEED to know that I am eating the correct portions and once I started, I can't stop ~ weighing food and losing weight that is
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BeLightYear wrote: »I NEED to know that I am eating the correct portions and once I started, I can't stop ~ weighing food and losing weight that is
Its funny because once you do it... then you literally have to know how much you are eating overtime you eat haha!0 -
Somebody_Loved wrote: »Please listen to the people who are telling you that. The people telling you this have experience and have been through something you are starting with and/or struggling with.
I myself was pretty hesitant to weigh my food (and I even had a scale already) I mean screw that its gonna take up soon much time I can't be bothered with that. Well I can't be bothered with being fat so I guess pick your poison? I don't have much weigh to lose (15-20 lbs) so because of that my deficit is small and needs to be precise. About 3 weeks ago I began to weigh things and it changed my life. I steadily lose, get to eat WHATEVER I WANT TO EAT, and now I'm actually pretty obsessed with weighing. There is also this magical button called "tare" so you don't need to ever weigh things separately... even making a sandwich takes the same amount of time.
Listen to these people and if you really want to lose is weighing food really to much to handle? If so then you are not ready.
Appreciate the advice, take the advice, listen... they are right and you are wrong. Why? Well their weight loss is proof enough for me.
Game changer. Once I learned that function it made weighing my food so easy; no reason not to do it!
right? I was like omg its gonna take forever to figure out this stew or lasagna.. then I'm like oh yea duh.. the tare button. haha0 -
Weighing food is like a runners high for me, love it. Sadly my scale broke and I haven't found one I really like yet.0
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What is the name of the scale you use?0
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LolaKarwowski wrote: »I like weighing my food. I feel like a scientist.
(I'm being silly. It is fun for me though!)
Do you sing the song, too?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDN7M0J3HXc 0 -
LolaKarwowski wrote: »I like weighing my food. I feel like a scientist.
(I'm being silly. It is fun for me though!)
Do you sing the song, too?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDN7M0J3HXc
he's the only reason I made it through elementary school I'm pretty sure. I lived for the days we watched his show!0 -
I'd go so far as to specifically say - get a digital scale. I had a spring loaded scale for a while and the differences between the two was about 10%. Think about the last few kilos that can't be shifted - do they add up to about 10% of your current body weight? The price of my scale was about $10 excluding the batteries - be sure to get a scale that takes cheaper sized and more available batteries if you can.
Also, if you don't have a 'tare' function, you can leave an empty bowl on the scale before you power it up, it should then auto calibrate with the bowl to 0g. Anything you add after that is ingredient weight.
It is true that a digital scale is a game changer, I never believed it before.
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It can be a little bit of a pain at first, but I am glad I got into the habit as soon as I started MFP, instead of wondering why I'm not getting results weeks later.0
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I personally don't understand how some get by without a scale. All my meat is weighed in oz. and I don't understand how some people log say...chicken breast without a weight. I am constantly getting my scale out. I weigh fruit, dressings, peanut butter, meats. I even weighed out the bacon bits I put on my salad yesterday.0
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I love my food scale. I think it's easier to use than measuring cups.
A few months after joining MFP and frequenting the forums, I decided if I was going to commit to calorie counting I might as well be as accurate as I could about it. I hadn't stalled or anything, but I had seen a lot of threads from people who had. The thought that I might be able to prevent long stalls in weight loss (long stall = 6 + weeks to me) was all it took to get me to buy one. I was already doing one thing I thought I'd never do (counting calories); might as well add another. Needless to say I have yet to have a long stall. :drinker:0 -
I get by without a scale, but I acknowledge that means I'm likely underestimating my consumption. That's over of the reasons I only east back around 50% of my exercise calories (I use a Surge, so exercise burn is pretty accurate).
What I do do to help estimate my weights is look at the serving weights on the package and then divide it. 500g of chicken breast, 3 people eating it in roughly equal portions, then I'll call that 170g.0 -
Thanks to my digital Scale I can now "eyeball" a perfect tbsp of butter (14g). I know, cuz I weigh it to test my accuracy. It's like a game
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I personally don't understand how some get by without a scale... <snip>
You log honestly and consistently to the best of your ability and adjust your eating up or down depending on your results. It also helps to include behavioral changes (that are unpopular on MFP) like less snacking, no desserts or more activity. People have been dieting successfully for thousands of years without a food scale, MFP, FitBits and the like -- they can be helpful but it's not the only way. Or even the best way for everyone.
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I had one of my overweight friends over and she saw how I weighed everything before I ate it and she told me, "Uh I would rather be fat."0
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Asher_Ethan wrote: »I had one of my overweight friends over and she saw how I weighed everything before I ate it and she told me, "Uh I would rather be fat."
and she will probably stay that way... once it becomes routine the extra min or 2 flies by!0 -
@stevencloser that is genuinely terrifying, oh my god. I can't purchase a food scale (or even a person scale lol) because I live with my family. They would see weighing the dinner they give me as being offensive. I suppose opting out of things like chips, salad dressings, and pie would maybe make it easier to guess. I log my almonds by number, like 12 almonds. I definitely do eyeball the 1% milk in my morning tea. But there are things I just can't know, like how much butter was in the pan when my dad was frying lentil burgers, and how much got on my specific one. I just don't know. He doesn't know. He won't measure.0
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A scale is great, what would be even better is if all the foods in the database were in grams.0
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AlabasterVerve wrote: »I personally don't understand how some get by without a scale... <snip>
You log honestly and consistently to the best of your ability and adjust your eating up or down depending on your results. It also helps to include behavioral changes (that are unpopular on MFP) like less snacking, no desserts or more activity. People have been dieting successfully for thousands of years without a food scale, MFP, FitBits and the like -- they can be helpful but it's not the only way. Or even the best way for everyone.
Yes and thank you! Totally agree!!
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I was really hesitant to get one -- I was afraid it would cause some of my food issues to wake back up -- but my whole life changed when I realized that using a scale means never having to wash measuring cups and spoons.0
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LolaKarwowski wrote: »I like weighing my food. I feel like a scientist.
(I'm being silly. It is fun for me though!)
me too. I get excited when I get it right too. Today i perfectly got 50 grams of banana and cut exactly 3 oz of chicken breast last night. Its like a victory haha!
This is so funny, I feel the same way, especially about cutting chicken breast. Last night I was disappointed in myself because I was wayyyy off - thought I had it down.
I bought an Ozeri digital scale - it works great, and it's pretty on my counter:
http://www.amazon.com/Ozeri-Epicurean-Removable-Weighing-Platform/dp/B005WLPVUG
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People just love dirtying a thousand measuring cups a day. I don't get it...0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjKPIcI51lU
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