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Easy methods for counting calories

Sydking said:
once you start to eat similar foods, you can just quick add, from day before ect ect

Its like breathing for me now, Bad habbit though i cant sit and eat my meal without logging it,

or i will log while food is cooking,

helps when you make somethign aswome and you can go back and look at how much of something you used. :)
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agreed. Seeing as I how I eat a lot of similar stuff. Just add from recent with the multiadd & it's quick as. Plus I've got heaps of recipes all saved in there. They really need to be able to share recipes better though.
 
I weigh pretty much everything. Unless I am out then just estimate. If I eye ball stuff I always seem to way underestimate how much ice cream I have had and over estimate the amount of veggies.
 
I use calorie king.

I weigh every day food like oats for example in a cup, then i know how much is in a cup without measuring it everyday so i can just do it quickly.
 
I try to eyeball everything using comparative serving sizes (1 checkbook = 3oz serving of fish, etc) coz calorie counting got too intense for me.
 
Unless your preping for a bbing show etc theres no need to measure all your food I feel and go into so much details about grams, mls etc of what your eating/drinking...

Never been a believer really in counting/measuring anything....I think its worked ok for me :p
 
even if its counting everything for a couple weeks, Its good to get an idea of what your putting into your body.

For me conuting is more a motivation thing, Helps me keep on track and eat the right foods.

Also lets you squeeze in a little ice cream end of day and not feel quilty about it :)

If you can do it by eye and not count/weight food. then thats aswsome. But i can seriously put on 1 -2kg a week not whatching what i eat.

then in turn is about 2 months per kg get get it back down.
 
I just got a smart phone and got MFP, before I got this I had never counted a calorie in my life, now im punching in every time I eat, I love it, and it stops me from binge eating(which is something I do often) great program
 
Another MFP user too. It gets really easy once you have used it for awhile - all your favourites are entered and meals already created.
 
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