Food scale shock!
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MsBuzzkillington wrote: »MsBuzzkillington wrote: »
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.
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I found several things that shocked me: rice, oatmeal, and pasta. So sad.
But at least now I know! 
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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.
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".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!
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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.4 -
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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...
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On an opposite note, potato chips always seem to have larger portions when you weigh them out. At least I think so.10
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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.
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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 lol8
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I think I am one of the few who have been surprised at "normal serving portions" - in the opposite direction. Then again, I have never been a good eater of 'proper' food, but rather have my downfall with chocolate and cakes and muffins and and and
Finally, most of my calories are from the more vitamin-filled, blood-sugar-stabilizing, filling, protein-rich food I should be nourished on, but I still sometimes sigh as I am eating - because I'd rather have half a portion and 200 grams of chocolate. I'm a lazy eater, I think 
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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
Same. I use a food scale and I feel like it takes so much nut butter just to get to 32 grams! The portion size doesn't shock me at all; I think it's huge.2 -
@twistedwoman - I have attached a few Important Posts that have helped me. A few that I always refer back to are Logging Accurately and your Eating More Than You Think. They all relate back to scales and portion sizes.2
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I have seen very little difference between weighing and measuring. I even spent a couple days doing both so I could check.2
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And now you know. It's great that you've discovered this now. It'll save you in the future.
My shock was in seeing how much packaged foods varied. For example, one protein bar will weigh a range of 55-72 g with the nutrition label reading for a 60 g bar.
Pizza and pasta were happy shocks though. Perhaps it's because I never grab the biggest slice of pizza, but the slice I grab usually weighs less than the average slice.
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I usually use a food scale for everything but haven't been for hummus just because I felt like measuring using tablespoons couldn't be THAT far off. I decided to actually weigh it the other day and realized I've been eating twice as much as I thought I was eating, which is an extra 70 calories. It's not that much but I was shocked too!0
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booksandchocolate12 wrote: »Weigh a serving of peanut butter. You will weep.
A serving of my peanut butter is 32g (Great Value Creamy PB). I was shocked at how much it was. I would never put that much peanut butter on anything if I weren't trying to get the full serving. I can barely taste my blackberry jam--it's all just globs of peanut butter. I do eat a serving every day anyway because I don't get enough fat in my day without it, but I was just shocked in the opposite way with peanut butter.2 -
MultipleHigh5s wrote: »I have seen very little difference between weighing and measuring. I even spent a couple days doing both so I could check.
But everyone else does. I can't even find a slice of bread that matches the nutrition information. I'd love to know what you've been weighing.8 -
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The saddest thing in the entire universe is the size of one serving of cheese (1 oz, or 28 g). All that fat and calories for such a miniscule portion. sad, sad, sad21
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