To anyone who doesn't have a food scale. . .
jen1127
Posts: 19
Go buy one immediately! I've been guesstimating my food sizes for the last 2 weeks and boy was I off! The chicken breast I thought was 4oz was actually 8oz!! So my diaries are probably all messed up with inaccurate portions. This food scale is now becoming the most used thing in my kitchen!
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QFT
Absolutely a necessity for accurate portions. I agree - $20 well spent.0 -
Thanks, but if I got to the stage I was measuring everything I ate, I would consider myself to have an eating disorder. I have managed to lose all the weight I wanted to without one.0
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Thanks, but if I got to the stage I was measuring everything I ate, I would consider myself to have an eating disorder. I have managed to lose all the weight I wanted to without one.0
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I have one, but I only use it for about 1/4 of the stuff I eat. Calorie counts are always going to be an estimate, anyway...0
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Thanks, but if I got to the stage I was measuring everything I ate, I would consider myself to have an eating disorder. I have managed to lose all the weight I wanted to without one.
Imthink my bulimia was bad enough without a food scale.0 -
Yeah I def. need to go buy one..for the most part I eat things with calorie content on the side but I am eating more meats and stuff so I think it would be good idea to weigh how much is 2 oz etc I just don't want to get too obsessed0
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It would not be a for ever thing, scales really help with portion control.
Once you have used them for a while you get used to what things approximately weigh.0 -
Thanks, but if I got to the stage I was measuring everything I ate, I would consider myself to have an eating disorder. I have managed to lose all the weight I wanted to without one.
I got all OCD with mine till I accidentally broke it.0 -
QFT
Absolutely a necessity for accurate portions. I agree - $20 well spent.
for 20 bucks, what's the best one to get?0 -
My food scale helps me from getting too obsessed. Instead of being like do they mean a level 2/3 cup or stressing about how to measure spaghetti, I just weight things. Makes it much easier for me. Some people don't need one to lose, then again some people can eat whatever they want and never get to be as fat as I am now having already lost 65 lbs.0
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Excellent advice about using a food scale. It's so simple to just put the plate on top, turn the scale on, and plop down your food. I use mine a lot.
Another point worth adding that goes right along with the original post....measuring out things like cereal was a shocker for me. What I had been placing in my bowl was way more than what the cereal box used for computing the calories. In other words, if you're not measuring as well as weighing you may be fooling yourself as to the number of calories for your portion.0 -
For me (who's very new to this site and calorie counting) I'm finding that I had NO idea of the right portion sizes. I was waaayyy off, thus affecting my serving size and calories. So for me it is most needed until I get more experienced.0
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Everyone is different, but it can be really hard to eyeball things if you've never really been into these things before.0
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Best investment ever!!! Other than maybe an HRM!0
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I weigh absolutely everything, even to the point where I had to buy a scale that weighs in smaller increments. I don't think it's OCD at all, just good to know how many calories I am eating, kind of the point of my food diary really :drinker:0
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got one, a must!0
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I agree. There are items (nuts especially) that I can either buy in bulk and package to individual serving sizes, or pay a lot more and have them prepackaged for me. And meat is a particularly good thing (for me) to measure out. My eyeballing skills suck when there is a beautiful filet in front of me!
If something isn't measured out, it's not a big deal. Things are estimations....from calories in to calories burned during exercise. But knowledge is power and a food scale helps tremendously. People will spend $100 on a heart rate monitor, but not $10 on a food scale? I don't get it, especially since I'm in the camp that believes weight loss happens in the kitchen more than in the gym.0 -
I bought a super cheap one to see if I liked it...and I did. So, I bought the $20 digital scale at Walmart and I love it!0
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I really need to get one! I hate estimating...especially meat!0
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Of course my eyeballing is way off. The scales don't lie, my eyeballs do!0
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