You don't use a food scale?
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BattyKnitter wrote: »So maybe this is the place to ask. I'm cooking some bone-in, skin-on chicken breasts tonight and I know I won't be eating the whole breast since they are HUGE, how in the world do I weight this accurately? I normally weigh my meat raw as it's more accurate but this time I'll only be eating a portion of it and not eating the skin, plus obviously not eating the bone.
I just measure cooked. I'd cut my portion and weigh it. If it had skin and bone, I'd weigh whatever was left over and subtract from the original weight.4 -
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When I first got mfp under a different name I lost my first 30lbs without a food scale. I would just measure my food but less than what the measure was because I knew it was probably lying to me. But the next 15 I needed a good scale for.3
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This is like, my eighth attempt at fat loss and I've been weighing everything! I'm eating around 1750 a day and in 45 days I've lost 17 pounds!! I have two scales, one by my coffeepot (I drink A LOT of coffee with cream) and one where I prepare/plate my food.
It's almost.... Magical.
Oh I'm 5'10" and started at 235. I'm now 218!! GOOOO FOOD SCALE!!!!11 -
FrecklePatch wrote: »This is like, my eighth attempt at fat loss and I've been weighing everything! I'm eating around 1750 a day and in 45 days I've lost 17 pounds!! I have two scales, one by my coffeepot (I drink A LOT of coffee with cream) and one where I prepare/plate my food.
It's almost.... Magical.
Oh I'm 5'10" and started at 235. I'm now 218!! GOOOO FOOD SCALE!!!!
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I weigh everything but supper. I always allot 800 calories for that meal.1
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Easier for me to peel fruit, plop on scale & there are your grams.4
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RetiredAndLovingIt wrote: »Easier for me to peel fruit, plop on scale & there are your grams.
Depending on the fruit, that could get messy...2 -
True! I use a bowl if a messy fruit.1
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(See also this excellent thread: https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10498882/weighing-food-takes-too-long-and-is-obsessive/p1)1 -
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Back in the student days I often used to eat certain meal kits because I loved the taste. There's usually a starch in there, a marinade and a sauce. Never looked at the calorie count of this in the past.
I recently had the urge to try one of those again after having moved back here 10 years later. I looked at the calorie count, but couldn't figure out how much is in there as it only provides 100gr and serving of prepared product, and 100gr dry product (how much of what used for that?). Contacted them and found out all in the package clocks in at a staggering 1142kcal. Plus creme fresh, oil for marinade and cooking, an apple, veggies and chicken. I weighed out everything I put in (very generous on veggies, otherwise per instruction) and found I had 4 dinners of 550kcal right here. I used to eat half a pack of those in an evening!
Btw, it tastes quite gross Shame for the nice veggies. I guess this is something for people who don't like the taste of food as the rather unremarkable sauce and marinade overpowers everything. Still tastes like I remember it though
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Great posts here. I am beginning using a scale. I think it will really help!
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ladyzherra wrote: »Great posts here. I am beginning using a scale. I think it will really help!
It really will! But you may be a bit sad when you find out what a "portion" of some foods really looks like...
Looking at you, cheese...
(For many people, it's peanut butter. I'm not a huge fan of that anyway, but what 30g of cheese looked like was very upsetting! If I grate it, it looks like way more and I'm happy again. )5 -
I think a scale is critical when counting calories with macros...protein, fat, carbohydrates. Trying to keep my total calories around 2000, protein at 240g, carbohydrates at 200g and letting fats make up the difference in calories. I have been doing this for about a month and I have lost over 10 lbs. Also I am doing intermediate fasting and a lot exercising.1
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