How do I log foods/fruits like Eggs/Banana?
botadufig05
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Do I weigh after removing the shells/peel or before? I am quite confused about this. I am also having a bit of difficulty in logging chicken as well, not sure if I have to weigh my drumsticks and nibblets with the bones. Thanks.
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Eggs - weigh only egg white and yolk.
Bananas - without peel
Chicken drumsticks - weigh your drumsticks before eating, cooked, then weigh bones after eating. Subtract weight of full drumstick from bones to get the weight of the meat. There are entries on myfitnesspal with cooked drumstick meat. Usually you would weigh meat uncooked but this is an exception.
Can of beans (popular confusing one) - drain, rinse, and weigh beans. Find an entry on myfitnesspal with the type of beans you are eating, make sure it says cooked, use that instead of the label if you are not sensitive to sodium. That's how I do it.
Rule of thumb: Only weigh what you actually eat! Unless the nutrition label says otherwise.0 -
One large egg is 70 calories. Any variation is small and they're not worth weighing.
I don't weigh bananas either. I just use the entry for the large one.0 -
Banana; weigh the whole banana. Eat the banana. Weigh the skin. Subtraction. Kapow.
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Or you could weigh everything and build a small buffer for foods where you might end up underestimating. I'm lazy and almost never weigh my apple cores, but the 10-15 calorie difference balances out during the times I might have a sugar free jello cup or don't log a few sticks of sugar free gum.0
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I'm not sure why you'd weigh either, though?0
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you don't eat the shell...why would that be part of the serving?0
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As someone who sells eggs, the weights in the database seem to correlate to the weights with shells when I sort them, like 60g is a large egg with a shell.0
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You weigh the part of the food that you eat. So weigh bananas peeled, eggs without shell, stone fruits without the stones, etc.0
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I'd just weigh them in their entirety to be honest. Underestimate your exercise on here and overestimate your foods. It'll help for when there are inconsistencies in certain foods or your exercises.0
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I weigh bananas but not eggs. As somebody else wrote, the variation within a size category is minimal so it's not worth it to me.0
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I agree with Rule of thumb: only weigh what you eat, avoid eggshells for consumption, and if not mentioned, chicken bones probably shouldn't be eaten either, but then again. . . .0
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unless you eat the peel or shell... why would you weigh it?
you weigh what you eat....0 -
Thanks everyone for the response. I do appreciate.0
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My work collouges think I'm nuts that I bring home the peelings to weigh
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RuNaRoUnDaFiEld wrote: »My work collouges think I'm nuts that I bring home the peelings to weigh
Just tell them you are taking them home to make compost for the garden!
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Peanuts. If they are in a shell I eat the whole thing and count the nuts. The shell is pure fiber. Also, there is a calorie count on the bag usually.0
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For supermarkets eggs I use the "One Large" entry. I weigh eggs I buy at the farm stand as they can vary from Medium through Jumbo. @cmtigger - I call 60-69 g with shell Large - is this accurate? Maybe you could post the weights and sizes of eggs with shell?
I freeze banana chunks and use them in smoothies so I weigh them unpeeled. Before I got the digital scale I did use entries like "one small banana" and have since learned this isn't very accurate.0 -
Here is a link with an accurate chart. http://www.backyardchickens.com/t/971625/egg-weights I have an egg scale in my kitchen that I refer to.0
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From what I'm reading here, if I eat watermelon I should weigh the slice, spit my seeds in a cup, weigh the seeds and rind, then subtract that from the original weight? Sounds a bit obsessive to me.0
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From what I'm reading here, if I eat watermelon I should weigh the slice, spit my seeds in a cup, weigh the seeds and rind, then subtract that from the original weight? Sounds a bit obsessive to me.
If you want to spend calories on watermelon rind go for it. I'd rather spend them on the parts I eat. I've not seen a watermelon with seeds in ages but I'd probably not worry about weighing them unless I had quite a pile. Odds are I'd actually just swallow the seeds if there weren't many.0 -
From what I'm reading here, if I eat watermelon I should weigh the slice, spit my seeds in a cup, weigh the seeds and rind, then subtract that from the original weight? Sounds a bit obsessive to me.
If you want to spend calories on watermelon rind go for it. I'd rather spend them on the parts I eat. I've not seen a watermelon with seeds in ages but I'd probably not worry about weighing them unless I had quite a pile. Odds are I'd actually just swallow the seeds if there weren't many.
I think you misread my post, I don't eat the rind. The rind is immaterial in any case. My point was that worrying about the weight of the seeds is about as obsessive as worrying about the weight of the egg shell.
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From what I'm reading here, if I eat watermelon I should weigh the slice, spit my seeds in a cup, weigh the seeds and rind, then subtract that from the original weight? Sounds a bit obsessive to me.
If you want to spend calories on watermelon rind go for it. I'd rather spend them on the parts I eat. I've not seen a watermelon with seeds in ages but I'd probably not worry about weighing them unless I had quite a pile. Odds are I'd actually just swallow the seeds if there weren't many.
I think you misread my post, I don't eat the rind. The rind is immaterial in any case. My point was that worrying about the weight of the seeds is about as obsessive as worrying about the weight of the egg shell.
While you don't eat it, by logging the water melon with rind weight your taking calories away from your day that could have been used elsewhere. That's what I believe @jemhh was referring to.0 -
shadow2soul wrote: »From what I'm reading here, if I eat watermelon I should weigh the slice, spit my seeds in a cup, weigh the seeds and rind, then subtract that from the original weight? Sounds a bit obsessive to me.
If you want to spend calories on watermelon rind go for it. I'd rather spend them on the parts I eat. I've not seen a watermelon with seeds in ages but I'd probably not worry about weighing them unless I had quite a pile. Odds are I'd actually just swallow the seeds if there weren't many.
I think you misread my post, I don't eat the rind. The rind is immaterial in any case. My point was that worrying about the weight of the seeds is about as obsessive as worrying about the weight of the egg shell.
While you don't eat it, by logging the water melon with rind weight your taking calories away from your day that could have been used elsewhere. That's what I believe @jemhh was referring to.
"From what I'm reading here, if I eat watermelon I should weigh the slice, spit my seeds in a cup, weigh the seeds and rind, then subtract that from the original weight? Sounds a bit obsessive to me."
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I weigh foods with peels and shells on and that means I slightly overestimate my calorie intake. The only time I weigh after peeling is if the peel is extremely thick and makes up more than 1/3 the total weight. For all foods, when in doubt, I add a few grams when entering in my diary so that I can be 100% positive I am not underestimating how much I am eating.0
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I get my eggs from a farm and they vary a lot in size. Two eggs could be 90 g or they could be 120 g. I tend to mix and match smaller and larger ones so they generally end up around 100-110, but in that I make an omelet with them it's easier to just weigh them in a bowl before mixing than estimating.
For fruit, I weigh what I eat if I'm home, weigh the whole and deduct a reasonable amount if I'm not, or simply estimate based on size if I never have an opportunity to weigh. I'm not neurotic about weighing, but it's simply easier to use the scale if it's possible and you are logging anyway.
I prefer trying to get the more accurate number vs. an overestimated number. If I'm not losing on my calories I can just reduce them, after all.0
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