Food weighing?

But dont over tink that..when you weigh your food on a scale choose the right entry's your good
believe me. It worked for all the succesful people here and all the others

Just weigh and log...and your deficit is there and your weight loss too.

well burns ( exercise ) is most of the time the other way around...also not accurate but most of the time over estimated
So food intake is under estimated and exercise over estimated lol

But weighing will help you
Remember the bigger you make your deficit the harder it will be.

Here is a little tip with the weighing I haven't heard mentioned yet. I don't know why it took me so long to figure this out, but it makes life easier sometimes.

When weighing out something like frozen fruit, or dry cereal, rice or something else in a container just put the whole thing on the scale, weigh it in grams or whatever you use and then subtract the amount of grams you want to eat from the total number. Remove some food from the package until the scale reads that number.

This also reminds me of how many servings are left in the container and keeps me from having to put large items on my little scale. It also keeps me from using a second dish when cooking or using my blender. A big pot or blender is just too heavy for my puny scale.

Hope this helps!

Also, you will get so good eventually you will be able to eye out 30 grams of cheese only using the scale to double check. Took me two years, but I can pretty much guess within a gram or two for most items I eat frequently. This helps a lot when dining out.

btw when you scale dont have a tara button...put your package on the scale and THAN put it on. It will show zero too. take your ingredient out and the negative number is again your amount in grams

depends if it says also grams on the label when it says 30 grams ( 2 tbsp) than no your are oke

When not..well yes it could be or not
You just dont know

When i had a salad dressing i used more regular...i take the tbsp and fill it. wipe the execs off so a flat spoon is the real tbsp...than i put that on the scale and get the amount in grams....now i know forever what 1 tbsp of that particular salad dressing weigh and is in calories...but only for that one. Another salad dressing will have another weight because it can be thicker or thinner.

I'm going to be getting a scale that weighs in grams and ounces. they have decent priced ones on amazon and walmart.

what i do with my round plates is place a smaller round bowl on my scale and place my plate on that...so it is higher

I don't know if they all have these features, but for me the main things are:
-- digital
-- switch between grams and ounces
-- the "tare" function (I didn't even know what it was till I started on MFP)
-- a dial that you can read without bending down and squinting

JaneiR36 wrote: »

YorriaRaine wrote: »

I had a 10 dollar one from Amazon that lasted me a year, however I had some minor annoyances with it because if I put a bigger dinner sized plate on it I couldn't hardly read the scale because the plate would be covering the display. So I opted for this one when that one died and I love it because its so easy to read the display because of the curve. http://amazon.com/gp/product/B005WLPVUG?psc=1&redirect=true&ref_=oh_aui_detailpage_o04_s00

Oh look, a sledge hammer just accidentally hit all three of my food scales so now I guess I have to buy this beautiful BEAUTIFUL one!

OP, I weigh: fruits, vegetables, grains, flour, meat, thicker liquids/dressings. I don't weigh: freely pouring liquids (as discussed extensively), pre portioned items like bread slices, cheese slices, eggs - I weighed egg whites from a carton when I ate them, bacon. Carrots and cherries may fall under this category as well since I snack on them throughout the day, and weighing one or two baby carrots while preparing dinner is just going to annoy me. Instead for those I tend to get an idea what each one weighs on average and over estimate, and just log by total # of pcs if necessary.

For recipes, I weigh the total cooked yield and record the weight in grams as the total number of servings in the recipe tool. Then I weigh each individual portion for meal logging. So I might record 160 "servings" of peanut soup

Lol, I went to look at that scale also. Unfortunately no sledge hammers fell on my current one.

Weighing recipes is where I have a hard time. Like for instance, I made crockpot bbq the other day. I cooked chicken breasts in a bit of the sauce, shredded them, then added sauce until it tasted right. I need to figure out how to do that. I guess I could have measured out some sauce ahead of time, added what I needed and then I'd see what was left and would know how much I put in... Hm.. I'll have to try that next time. But, this last time I just didn't eat a ton of it and since it was dinner I just put it down as all the rest of my calories for that day. But that's not as accurate as I'd like to be.