You don't use a food scale?
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the best 20 bucks I ever spent was buying the food scale. will be weighing for life. it's not a big deal when it becomes routine.1
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I've been losing weight without a scale. I use the not so accurate estimations in MFP and eyeball. (E.g I look at my piece of chicken thigh and estimate ounces.)
Definitely inaccurate, but it doesn't make a difference for me.
Maybe I'd lose faster and more consistently with a scale, but I ain't have time and energy to obsess.5 -
I've been losing weight without a scale. I use the not so accurate estimations in MFP and eyeball. (E.g I look at my piece of chicken thigh and estimate ounces.)
Definitely inaccurate, but it doesn't make a difference for me.
Maybe I'd lose faster and more consistently with a scale, but I ain't have time and energy to obsess.
You only need to be as accurate and stringent as is required. There's no use making things more difficult or arduous if you're already seeing the results you want.4 -
I've been losing weight without a scale. I use the not so accurate estimations in MFP and eyeball. (E.g I look at my piece of chicken thigh and estimate ounces.)
Definitely inaccurate, but it doesn't make a difference for me.
Maybe I'd lose faster and more consistently with a scale, but I ain't have time and energy to obsess.
That's absolutely fine if it works for you and you're happy with your results.
However, I completely disagree that weighing one's food is either time consuming or obsessive. I just had a Greek salad for my dinner - put bowl on scale, tared, chopped tomato, tared, chopped cucumber...etc*. I was chopping those things and adding them to the bowl anyway. Pressing a button between additions is hardly arduous. The time argument has always mystified me.
As to obsessive - I don't want to be spending any more time on this ride than I need to, but I also want to ensure I'm eating every calorie I can. Weighing my food allows me to do that. I'm actually pretty good at eyeballing, but weighing is simple, so I do. Weighing gives me surety, if I estimated I'd be constantly worried I was either under or over.
*And dammit, I just realised I forgot red onion. No wonder it wasn't up to snuff
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I can't imagine not using a food scale. It an essential part of my arsenal. I like math and precision.
@quiksylver296 Love the squat pic. ^^ Nice intensity & good form.0 -
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Good time to bump this thread but also wanted to add my first hand experience showing the potential issues with the “per piece” way of logging...
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That's a big difference in size. Wow.0
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Yes and no. I am sharing this loaf with 2 other people in the family so my consumption wouldn’t be the same as with a lone person eating a loaf and averaging it out.just_Tomek wrote: »moonangel12 wrote: »Good time to bump this thread but also wanted to add my first hand experience showing the potential issues with the “per piece” way of logging...
Thing with bread is that there is the total weight of you loaf on the bag. So you know there is 70cal in 28g of bread. if you loaf is 500g, this will average out over time. No need to stress.
Some days you will eat more, some less.
Either way, the point was to show how “per piece” can vary drastically and that weighing is going to be more accurate.
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I am responding just out of frustration at this point.
In the motivation section someone asked about not losing weight and said they eat 1200 calories a day. The usual came up: do you use a food scale? They don’t and then when people suggested that they should as that is the most likely source of their inability to lose weight, they posted that they are leaving and will just work with their specialist.
What I shall NEVER understand is how you can ask for help and then get upset when the answer is something you don’t want to hear....
I keep trying to help people though because some people do appreciate it...5 -
Dogmom1978 wrote: »I am responding just out of frustration at this point.
In the motivation section someone asked about not losing weight and said they eat 1200 calories a day. The usual came up: do you use a food scale? They don’t and then when people suggested that they should as that is the most likely source of their inability to lose weight, they posted that they are leaving and will just work with their specialist.
What I shall NEVER understand is how you can ask for help and then get upset when the answer is something you don’t want to hear....
I keep trying to help people though because some people do appreciate it...
She’s the reason I bumped this post.3 -
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I using a food scale for the first time, but I not sure how to log it. Example the serving size in grams was 152 but I used 130 grams. Does MFP let me just put in the amount of grams?0
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If the serving size is 152 g, you'd log 130/152 or .86 of a serving. You'd put in 0.86.
It's easier with whole foods, where the entries (the better ones) should have 100 g as a serving option. Then, for 130 g, you'd log 1.3 of 100 g (or input 1.3).2 -
If the serving size is 152 g, you'd log 130/152 or .86 of a serving. You'd put in 0.86.
It's easier with whole foods, where the entries (the better ones) should have 100 g as a serving option. Then, for 130 g, you'd log 1.3 of 100 g (or input 1.3).
Anything with grams usually has a 1g option on the drop down. I use that. No pesky math
(though it's obviously pretty easy if a serving is 100g). 2
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