Food scale shock!

twistedwoman · June 2016

I used food scales tonight for my dinner for the first time. I was horrified by how much I have been underestimating food!
I have now weighed out my cereal to take to work and my lunch and it looks pitiful!!! At least I know it's accurate!!

vikinglander · June 2016

Uh- huh!

diannethegeek · June 2016

It's a real eye-opener, isn't it? But at least now you know and will be better armed going forward :drinker:

Colt1835 · June 2016

It'll probably make a huge difference in your progress.

melonaulait · June 2016

A good tip is to bulk up your dinners and lunches with extra steamed veggies. That way you can have a much bigger meal. My meals without a lot of veggies look pretty sad, too.

twistedwoman · June 2016

I'm hoping so! Nearly fell over when I realised how much chicken and sweet potato I have been eating.

MissusMoon · June 2016

People also under-estimate us when we tell them what a HUGE difference this makes!

Kudos on getting your scale and spreading the word!

twistedwoman · June 2016

I think I've probably been eating 250 to 300 more per day than I thought! Still lost 8lb this month due to exercise thank god!

AuroraGeorge8393 · June 2016

It came as a real shock when I first started weighing my food. I had no idea how many calories I'd been consuming! I also was afraid that weighing and measuring would get to be really tedious. It's actually just become second nature.

Congrats on losing the 8lbs.

try2again · June 2016

Not all bad news... *occasionally* you will be pleasantly surprised. I'm eating my favorite grilled chicken & veggie pizza from Papa Johns today, and the weight of each slice is often substantially under the serving size weight. I've encountered a few other things like that as well.

twistedwoman · June 2016

The pizza thing has cheered me up!!

booksandchocolate12 · June 2016

Weigh a serving of peanut butter. You will weep.

akf2000 · June 2016

so true, when I first weighed rice I thought there was something wrong with the scales or the fundamental laws of physics had changed.

katiebean · June 2016

A portion of cereal is horrendously small! Couldn't believe it the first time I weighed it out.

MsBuzzkillington · June 2016

akf2000 wrote: »

so true, when I first weighed rice I thought there was something wrong with the scales or the fundamental laws of physics had changed.

Weighed it out dry?

MissusMoon · June 2016

twistedwoman wrote: »

The pizza thing has cheered me up!!

It happens to me with chicken breast, too. Sometimes you get bonus calories. And now if you don't finish something, you know how to weigh it to remove the calories!

akf2000 · June 2016

MsBuzzkillington wrote: »

akf2000 wrote: »

so true, when I first weighed rice I thought there was something wrong with the scales or the fundamental laws of physics had changed.

Weighed it out dry?

Cooked. Also made with a teaspoon of coconut oil for that insane discovery made recently:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-32019176

although I'm obviously still logging it as per usual calories.

zyxst · June 2016

I must eat different cereals than everyone else. Cheerios, Honeycomb, Alpha-bits, Rice Krispies are pretty large-showing amounts for their weight. The only pitiful amount I've had is oatmeal.

MsBuzzkillington · June 2016

akf2000 wrote: »

MsBuzzkillington wrote: »

akf2000 wrote: »

so true, when I first weighed rice I thought there was something wrong with the scales or the fundamental laws of physics had changed.

Weighed it out dry?

Cooked. Also made with a teaspoon of coconut oil for that insane discovery made recently:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-32019176

although I'm obviously still logging it as per usual calories.

I've heard of that coconut oil thing, if coconut products didn't make me want to vomit, I might give it a shot.

But you know that the weight of cooked rice is going to be different from the dry? So you're going to get a bigger portion.

twistedwoman · June 2016

I weighed out weetabix minis and there is about 20 of them

AuroraGeorge8393 · June 2016

katiebean wrote: »

A portion of cereal is horrendously small! Couldn't believe it the first time I weighed it out.

So true. Who knew 28 grams was such a puny amount.

akf2000 · June 2016

MsBuzzkillington wrote: »

akf2000 wrote: »

MsBuzzkillington wrote: »

akf2000 wrote: »

so true, when I first weighed rice I thought there was something wrong with the scales or the fundamental laws of physics had changed.

Weighed it out dry?

Cooked. Also made with a teaspoon of coconut oil for that insane discovery made recently:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-32019176

although I'm obviously still logging it as per usual calories.

I've heard of that coconut oil thing, if coconut products didn't make me want to vomit, I might give it a shot.

But you know that the weight of cooked rice is going to be different from the dry? So you're going to get a bigger portion.

Luckily for me I love coconut, I could be immersed upside down in coconut and be happy. I used to eat anything with coconut in it, even found a sunscreen that smelt of it!

The rice in the database I'm using states it's for cooked. I find I'm eating less of it now anyway, there's just not enough bang for my buck in rice.

7elizamae · June 2016

akf2000 wrote: »

so true, when I first weighed rice I thought there was something wrong with the scales or the fundamental laws of physics had changed.

Yes. The rice was a shocker.

7elizamae · June 2016

I found several things that shocked me: rice, oatmeal, and pasta. So sad.

But at least now I know!

cerise_noir · June 2016

Right?
Just wait until you do peanut butter. It's...sad.
But that won't stop me!

Pasta was a shock to me, but adding other low cal ingredients truly helped to beef up the portions. I tried shiritaki a few times, and nope. I'd rather eat actual tofu noodles than the shiritaki.

Cheese was a shock for me also, but I find that if I grate or slice it thinly it feels like more.

MissusMoon wrote: »

People also under-estimate us when we tell them what a HUGE difference this makes!

Kudos on getting your scale and spreading the word!

Yes. The "oh, I am SO good at estimating my portions. I don't believe in using a food scale, but why am I not losing weight".

Um.

Francl27 · June 2016

twistedwoman wrote: »

I think I've probably been eating 250 to 300 more per day than I thought! Still lost 8lb this month due to exercise thank god!

Yeah that's why most people who don't weigh their food should not eat back exercise calories.

MissusMoon · June 2016

7elizamae wrote: »

I found several things that shocked me: rice, oatmeal, and pasta. So sad. But at least now I know!

Pasta is killer. A caloric kick right to the gut.

Seffell · June 2016

For me nothing can beat the peanut butter shock! But I was shocked over cheese, mayo and fries too. A handful of fries 250cals... come on...

emmylootwo · June 2016

On an opposite note, potato chips always seem to have larger portions when you weigh them out. At least I think so.

ElizabethOakes2 · June 2016

Mayo was my kryptonite. I don't even buy it anymore.
But yeah! I'm good at estimating, seriously good (worked in a commercial test kitchen for a few years) but I'd pretty much stopped paying attention to portion sizes for a long time. Once I started paying serious attention again, i was stunned by 'portion creep'- "Sure that's a about a cup of potatoes..."
Noooo, that's like a cup and a half of potatoes, and that fried chicken was actually four servings, even after I subtracted out the bones and the breading I didn't eat.
It's an eye opener!

cb2bslim · June 2016

I agree with @emmylootwo on the chips. Also on the opposite issue... I was leveling off my tablespoon of peanut butter for months. Then I decided to weight it one day and, WOW, all those months I was eating under 16g! That just isn't right in so many ways lol

Food scale shock!

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