Weighing Food Scale

geminigarcia199017
geminigarcia199017 Posts: 529 Member
edited November 2024 in Health and Weight Loss
Do you have to weigh the same foods everyday or just on different foods that has not been weighed.
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  • Maxematics
    Maxematics Posts: 2,287 Member
    You weigh everything you eat. Nothing you eat is going to be the same weight as the first time you weighed it. Even prepackaged foods have different weights.
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  • seska422
    seska422 Posts: 3,217 Member
    Every food every time you eat it.

    This apple may weigh 48 grams and tomorrow's apple may weigh 51 grams.

    If one serving of breakfast cereal is 37 grams, you need to weigh out 37 grams every time if you want exactly one serving. If you get 29 grams, you can divide to get that you are eating 0.78 servings this time.
  • shadow2soul
    shadow2soul Posts: 7,692 Member
    synacious wrote: »
    You weigh everything you eat. Nothing you eat is going to be the same weight as the first time you weighed it. Even prepackaged foods have different weights.

    ^yep
    Not all apples are the same size and even the slightest difference in size will change the weight/calories.
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  • shadow2soul
    shadow2soul Posts: 7,692 Member
    geminigarcia199017 wrote: »
    synacious wrote: »
    You weigh everything you eat. Nothing you eat is going to be the same weight as the first time you weighed it. Even prepackaged foods have different weights.

    I weighed my bread yesterday,so does that mean I have to weigh it again! Thank you

    Yes. One slice could be 44 g and the next 51 g. That difference in weight will change the calories.
  • Maxematics
    Maxematics Posts: 2,287 Member
    geminigarcia199017 wrote: »
    synacious wrote: »
    You weigh everything you eat. Nothing you eat is going to be the same weight as the first time you weighed it. Even prepackaged foods have different weights.

    I weighed my bread yesterday,so does that mean I have to weigh it again! Thank you

    Yes. The package may say one slice of bread is 8 grams, but it could vary wildly. One slice from the package may be 7 grams and another may be 12 grams. There is always variance in weight, no matter the item.
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  • callsitlikeiseeit
    callsitlikeiseeit Posts: 8,626 Member
    geminigarcia199017 wrote: »
    What about creating the same entry nutrition information with the same food name! MFP does not allow the same food name twice.

    you dont have to make a new entry. record the weight of the food in your diary.

    find the item (with a gram weight) select it , enter the weight. done.

  • abatonfan
    abatonfan Posts: 1,120 Member
    geminigarcia199017 wrote: »
    What about creating the same entry nutrition information with the same food name! MFP does not allow the same food name twice.

    There should be an option to edit the nutrition info if it is wrong (as long as it's not a verified food). I edit foods all the time so that the serving size is in grams instead of cups.
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  • seska422
    seska422 Posts: 3,217 Member
    geminigarcia199017 wrote: »
    How bout weighing cereals
    seska422 wrote: »
    If one serving of breakfast cereal is 37 grams, you need to weigh out 37 grams every time if you want exactly one serving. If you get 29 grams, you can divide to get that you are eating 0.78 servings this time.

    Also, if your database entry includes a per one gram choice, you can choose that and then just enter the grams in the servings area.
  • glassyo
    glassyo Posts: 7,930 Member
    geminigarcia199017 wrote: »
    How bout weighing cereals

    Weigh everything that's not liquid...ESPECIALLY cereal and nut butters. :)
  • bpetrosky
    bpetrosky Posts: 3,911 Member
    geminigarcia199017 wrote: »
    How bout weighing cereals

    Why not? If a serving of cereal is 50 grams and you pour out and eat 75 grams, you'd want to log that you had 1.5 servings. If the 50 gram serving size is 100 calories, having 1.5 servings comes to 150.

    Alternatively, you could use the scale to insure you actually poured out 50 grams so that you didn't get more calories than expected.

    Single serving items should be weighed when possible, too. If you have a snack bar that has a label serving of 25 grams but the actual bar in the package is 29, you are getting 16% more.

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  • Ready2Rock206
    Ready2Rock206 Posts: 9,487 Member
    A mars bar would be part of everything.
    glassyo wrote: »
    geminigarcia199017 wrote: »
    How bout weighing cereals

    Weigh everything that's not liquid...ESPECIALLY cereal and nut butters. :)

  • bpetrosky
    bpetrosky Posts: 3,911 Member
    1. Zero scale
    2. Put unwrapped bar on scale
    3. Read number
    4. Compare number to serving size on label
  • cityruss
    cityruss Posts: 2,493 Member
    Seriously?

    Why are people continuing to respond to this blatant troll?
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  • seska422
    seska422 Posts: 3,217 Member
    geminigarcia199017 wrote: »
    How do you weigh a Mars chocolate bar on a food scale or just scan the barcode.

    When you scan the bar code, all that tells you (if the info has been input accurately) is the nutritional information for one serving. The nutrition label will say something like:

    Serving Size: 1 bar (35 g)

    Now take your food scale, put a plate on it and the tare out the weight of the plate so that it says 0, then put the unwrapped candy bar on the plate to get the weight in grams.

    If it says 35, you have exactly one serving. If it says 37, then it has 1.06 servings. If it says 34, then it has 0.97 servings.
  • glassyo
    glassyo Posts: 7,930 Member
    edited March 2016
    Wait. What if we stick the mars bar in a blender and liquify it? HOW DO WE WEIGH IT THEN??????

    :)
    Ready2Rock206 wrote: »
    A mars bar would be part of everything.
    glassyo wrote: »
    geminigarcia199017 wrote: »
    How bout weighing cereals

    Weigh everything that's not liquid...ESPECIALLY cereal and nut butters. :)


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  • queenliz99
    queenliz99 Posts: 15,317 Member
    geminigarcia199017 wrote: »
    Weighing your food is complicated all the damn time!!!! Scanning the food label to me gives more accurate readings

    Weighing food gets easier. Soon you will know which ones are accurate and which ones need weighing. Hang in there.
  • WatchJoshLift
    WatchJoshLift Posts: 520 Member
    Lol, I could tell this was troll bait the second time the user posted.
  • bpetrosky
    bpetrosky Posts: 3,911 Member
    geminigarcia199017 wrote: »
    Weighing your food is complicated all the damn time!!!! Scanning the food label to me gives more accurate readings

    No, it doesn't. It just helps you look the item up, your phone has no way of knowing how much is in the package.
  • shadow2soul
    shadow2soul Posts: 7,692 Member
    geminigarcia199017 wrote: »
    Weighing your food is complicated all the damn time!!!! Scanning the food label to me gives more accurate readings

    Scanning only tells you the nutritional information per serving. It doesn't tell you how many servings you ate. The food scale tells you how much of a serving you had.

    The meal bars I like often weigh at least a serving; typically more though. I had one the other day that was 57 g when a serving is 45 g. That turned a 170 calorie bar into a 215 calorie bar. Just scanning the label would have told me it was 170 calories which was incorrect for that particular bar since it was more than a serving.
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  • bpetrosky
    bpetrosky Posts: 3,911 Member
    So, if you don't want to weigh, don't weigh.
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