Fritzy 22's Journal, 13 February 2020

I guess it depends on how much a weight difference there is between the apple you eat and a "medium" apple. Produce is growing in size a lot so we can be easily be fooled. It may matter for people who are not losing as much as they think they should. Sometimes people just do not add things correctly or forget to add some things. I often guess but I probably weigh something daily. My food scale is always out 

I weigh it prior to eating and have never thought to subtract the core. I like to have it be a few more calories in case it isn't. I error on the side of too many calories, rather than too low. My husband eats more fruit than anyone I know and I have never seen him weigh pits or cores after. Now if I started eating the fruit and it just wasn't great and I only ate 1/4 or 1/2, I might readjust. 

And yes... Liv is right. I've heard my husband talk about how much more a piece of fruit weighs than what it says for medium or large on the app. So the calories can really add up. 

I tend to log food by whatever shows up in FS, which means it's just a ballpark figure, but I think it's probably close enough. I have a scale but don't use it very often, however I have broken out measuring cups to get 1/2 cup oatmeal, 1/2 cup rice, 1 cup cereal, etc. I have certain plates & bowls that I use all the time, and kind of eyeball the amount to be close to an actual 1 cup, etc. Btw about fruit, you can go by circumference for apples & length for bananas. 

I keep my food scale on the counter because I use it with every meal especially proteins and carbs. When I log food here on FS, say if its a fruit like others have mentioned, I'll round up if the app has a preexisting size already on the list. 

I often weigh food--I have a cool but old kitchen scale-not digital. I have a lot of cookbooks and some of them have weights instead of other measurements. a scale especially helps when freezing items in serving sizes.  

I weigh everything. Even chicken bones from wings. Seriously. Crazy? Perhaps, but I cannot log 30-40g of something I didn’t eat. 

I weigh peel, I weigh everything. No tighter log than mine. Just me.🤷🏻‍♀️ Diablo makes sense. A medium apple in fs, is way over what I call a medium apple. Just an example. 

I usually weigh minus the core or orange peel or whatever. But I like DP's thinking. 

I cut the apple off the core and weigh the cutoff portion. 

Wow, never really thought about it..have to ponder this...💜💜 

Thanks everyone! I used to enter apples, bananas, potatoes and other 1 piece items by the information in the database - 1 medium banana, etc. But I had a large potato and the information has the largest potato listed by the inches in diameter. The potato I had seemed much larger so I weighed it. Funny that by the oz it actually had less calories than the listed "large" potato. I have a scale out on the kitchen counter all the time. I used to use it mostly for meats but now use it for most foods. Weighing brussels sprouts seems much more accurate than indicating a cup. 

I weigh EVERYTHING, usually in grams, which I find more accurate than ounces. I cut my fruit up, so I don't weigh cores. (I'm an accountant, so I obsess over numbers and accuracy, can't help myself) 😁 

I follow the Shirfleur method🙃I have found the grams of a large egg run anywhere from 49-58 grams. For me I live a pretty sedentary life and every gram counts! Happy Valentines Day Fritz❤️ 

Fritzy, if you are struggling with the last few pounds, you may want to be that compulsive. Otherwise, weigh and measure, but don't make yourself crazy. But, it's up to you. Happy Valentine's Day! ♥️  

Shirfleur - I need to look for a scale that weighs in grams. Mine is in ounces and so many of the foods in the database has information in grams. Raineybird - I never weighed eggs, just entered the information for "large egg". Erquiaga - Still have over 30 pounds to lose. Was just wondering what people did who weighed their food. That's Chris - Now that I'm weighing more foods than before I find it more accurate than using cups for measuring. I used to enter "1 cup watermelon cubes", etc but some things in cups I know aren't accurate.  

I got my scale from Amazon. It does grams as well as ounces. It wasn't expensive at all. 

Fritzy, just looked on Amazon. They have one scale for under ten dollars that gets four and a half stars. 

Many scales are able to change between grams and ounces. There are great measurement converter apps for your phone, too - I use one called "Unit Converter" 

First - sorry about deleting your comment on my journal - somehow it posted 10 times - I had several duplicates to delete. I'm Sorry. Second - weighing. I probably wouldn't think to deduct the apple core - I over record every thing - like, when I weigh my food on a paper plate, I DO know the plate weighs over 1/2 oz.. I don't deduct it. Haven't eaten a paper plate yet, but if I ever do, I have many roll over calories.