You don't use a food scale?
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One of the important things that gets lost in the Food Scale Debate is that I get to eat enough, and know that I've eaten enough. So I don't have those crazy missteps with eat/starve/eat.
I've used mine for years, and logged food for years. Yes, every day. It's fun and I tend to get much better nutrition when I log everything accurately.10 -
No but I think I may get one5
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One thing I really liked about my food scale was that it felt easier to use up whatever was left at the bottom of a package of food. I'm sure there were probably ways I could have made things work, but I tended to toss the last little bit that didn't fit into my measuring cup instead of trying to figure out how much extra I had. For me, personally, a food scale reduced my food waste. Dunno if others ever had that problem.
Also I'd been cheating on my Brussels sprouts big time. I was eating at least twice what I was logging based on the sneaky notion that there was so much empty space between them in a cup, surely a couple of extra sprouts didn't count.10 -
diannethegeek wrote: »One thing I really liked about my food scale was that it felt easier to use up whatever was left at the bottom of a package of food. I'm sure there were probably ways I could have made things work, but I tended to toss the last little bit that didn't fit into my measuring cup instead of trying to figure out how much extra I had. For me, personally, a food scale reduced my food waste. Dunno if others ever had that problem.
Also I'd been cheating on my Brussels sprouts big time. I was eating at least twice what I was logging based on the sneaky notion that there was so much empty space between them in a cup, surely a couple of extra sprouts didn't count.
At least you're getting in those green leafies.
Funny how our minds work, though.
I used to figure, "Fill up that cup to the brim, or over if possible."
I learned by weighing that a "Cup" or "tablespoon" is actually about 1/8 to 1/4 inch below the brim.
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Brim? Or rim? ::meh::1
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cmriverside wrote: »diannethegeek wrote: »One thing I really liked about my food scale was that it felt easier to use up whatever was left at the bottom of a package of food. I'm sure there were probably ways I could have made things work, but I tended to toss the last little bit that didn't fit into my measuring cup instead of trying to figure out how much extra I had. For me, personally, a food scale reduced my food waste. Dunno if others ever had that problem.
Also I'd been cheating on my Brussels sprouts big time. I was eating at least twice what I was logging based on the sneaky notion that there was so much empty space between them in a cup, surely a couple of extra sprouts didn't count.
At least you're getting in those green leafies.
Funny how our minds work, though.
I used to figure, "Fill up that cup to the brim, or over if possible."
I learned by weighing that a "Cup" or "tablespoon" is actually about 1/8 to 1/4 inch below the brim.
Right?!? That's how the oatmeal looks in the first video. It's definitely not filled to the brim.2 -
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I'm a new guy, but I want to contribute. I make my own sourdough bread. My calorie counts for that were not accurate until I started weighing the slices. Now I weigh and multiple by 3 Cal/gram3
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On Myfitnesspal you can enter all the ingredients in your sourdough bread into the Recipe Builder by weight and then you have it right there for every entry.
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Didn't look through all 8 pages, but this is my go-to video and it does include peanut butter:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bnnpUYmr0OM3 -
serindipte wrote: »Didn't look through all 8 pages, but this is my go-to video and it does include peanut butter:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bnnpUYmr0OM
Hadn't seen that one before. Thanks!2 -
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diannethegeek wrote: »
That's a good one!2 -
I use a food scale for a lot, not everything. I use the "eyeball" method for leafy greens as being an entire cup off is not a lot as far as calories go. There are times I am crunched for time or simply do not feel like cooking, if I eat something pre-packaged, I just go by the packaging information.1
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I'm at the point where I make it a game to keep it interesting/me engaged in the practice.
For example, I will slice off a portion of rib roast estimating it to be the 8 oz I want, then weigh it to see how close/off I am. I feel it doing so will come in handy if/when I ever eat out or where I do not have control of the menu.
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It's crazy to me how people take the "16 chips" or "22 pieces" as gospel when it comes to counting what they ate. I have dark chocolate chips from Ghirardelli and it says something like "16" chips is a serving. But next to that, it says (15g). There is NO WAY that 16 chips weigh 15 grams. More like 5 chips. So if you are eating 16 chips every day thinking you are getting one serving, you are more than likely getting 3 servings or more.
Weigh everything!9
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