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Food Scale
So I just bought a food scale to ensure I'm eating the right portions of everything in my pursuit of weight loss. I guess this may be a stupid question but oz wise what is the correct portion of everything?? I know size wise and WW points wise.
Does anyone have a recommendation as to a legitimate website I could use to educate myself and track? (besides WW)
TIA
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Re: Food Scale
Did you join WW too?
I don't have recommendations for general size, but I find the food scale is most useful for making recipes and following serving sizes. For example, if a box of crackers says a serving size is 3 oz, measure out three ounces. You can of course eat more than one serving, but I find it's best to do one at a time so that you're aware of what you're eating, and to consider things like calories and fat per serving before pouring yourself the next. I also pre-bagged snacks (by the serving) to take to work. As for recipes, a lot of times meat will be in oz and I generally have no clue without a scale.
I used to track calories online, and this is where it came in handy - you might think you're eating one serving, or 6 ounces of meat, but you're really eating three times that so you're way over your recommended intake. Once you measure for a while, you get better at eyeballing it. The site I used was $75 a year (calorieking.com), but there are also free sites like thedailyplate.com and sparkpeople.com if you want to try the food journal. Entering recipes in there to determine nutritional info often uses weights, so I got a lot of mileage out of my scale before it broke!
I hear ya about keeping track of points, I find it to be more work than when I was counting calories, and I use that term loosley.
Have you checked the USDA website? Maybe this will help.
http://www.cnpp.usda.gov/DGAs2010-PolicyDocument.htm