I'm trying to accurately gauge how much I eat for fitday, but I don't know how precise I can be.
For instance, I'm trying to measure 1/3 of peanuts in a measuring cup, but if I fill it to 1/3 cup, there's obviously air in between the peanuts. So what can I do?
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Thread: How to measure food?
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02-22-2005, 08:30 PM #1Registered User
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How to measure food?
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02-22-2005, 08:31 PM #2chick magnet
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buy a digital scale so u can weigh ur food in grams. its a lot more precise than eyeballing it.
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02-22-2005, 09:12 PM #3Registered User
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what do you do with foods like yogurt, cottage cheese etc?
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02-22-2005, 09:25 PM #4MUST GET BIGGER!
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weigh that too.
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02-22-2005, 09:33 PM #5Registered User
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You can use a measuring cup if you don't have a scale.
All you food should be measured as it is. The peanuts are measured with the space between, not crushed. The yogurt is measured in measuring cups just fine.
The stuff you would need to weigh would be cuts of meat, as they are all different.
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02-22-2005, 09:41 PM #6Registered User
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can anyone recommend a cheap brand
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02-22-2005, 09:45 PM #7Peanut Butter-muncher
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with most scales you can zero them with a bowl on top of them, then pour whatever into them
i got myself a good digital scale for $50, its a great investment
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02-23-2005, 01:56 AM #8Champion Nutrition
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Go to Walmart buy there digital scale for 30 bucks u need to have a scale
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02-23-2005, 02:01 AM #9Registered User
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You can buy electronic scales that have nutritional values programmed into them for loads of food types, and you can program your own.
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02-23-2005, 06:39 AM #10Eat low-fat at your peril
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Your average tub of shop-bought cottage cheese is about 300g...so if you eat half of it, that's 150g. Check the nutritional info on the side of the tub for 100g, and times that data with a calculator by 1.5.Originally Posted by BrooklynBound
Same with yoghurt. By law, they're required to tell you how much is in the tub on the side in grams.You gotta go through hell to get the body made in heaven.
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02-23-2005, 06:43 AM #11
Yeah I just bought a good one off the net, it even has something like 900 different foods pre-programmed into it. It was definitely worth the cost because I use it everyday all day long.
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02-23-2005, 07:10 AM #12Registered User
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Get a scale like everybody mentioned above and here is a good site to look up nutritional values.
http://www.calorieking.com/foods/foo...98411&partner=
This site has pretty much everything on it and its easy to use.If you were a hotdog would you eat yourself?
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