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Do you weigh your food?

Kristin251

Kristin251

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I weigh protein and keep it to .8g per kg lean body mass divided through the day
I weigh avocado as to not short myself and it seems the best balance to keep my bs low and slow is for every 28 G protein I use 28 g avocado
I don’t weight my veggies as I know exactly how much o can eat at each meal
I do weigh my cheese as I could eat the whole Brie round.
I don’t weigh my nuts. I just eat one Mac and one pecan 4-5 times a day.
I never weigh fat, although I certainly have in the pastt. I just eat it to satisfaction.
I weigh myself in the morning and at night.

Weighing my food is just part of the diabetes habit for me. Just like testing and jabbing.
 
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I never weigh my food.
I am considering it just to try and work out how much I am eating per day, but basically I am too bone idle.
 
the thought of weighing my food fills me with dread - it brings up horrible memories of tortuous low calorie diets.
I have promised myself that I will NEVER subject myself to that mindset and way of eating every again. It brought me to my lowest ever relationship with food, and the nearest I have ever come to an eating disorder. Not going that route again. No no no!

Having said that, I am perfectly happy to weigh ingredients for recipes, divide the resulting food into portions, and carb count. But i won't extend that to fats, proteins or things like weighing out a portion of low carb meusli, or homemade chicken curry.

I fully recognise that everyone's mileage will vary on this.
 
Brunneria said:
the thought of weighing my food fills me with dread - it brings up horrible memories of tortuous low calorie diets.
I have promised myself that I will NEVER subject myself to that mindset and way of eating every again. It brought me to my lowest ever relationship with food, and the nearest I have ever come to an eating disorder. Not going that route again. No no no!

Having said that, I am perfectly happy to weigh ingredients for recipes, divide the resulting food into portions, and carb count. But i won't extend that to fats, proteins or things like weighing out a portion of low carb meusli, or homemade chicken curry.

I fully recognise that everyone's mileage will vary on this.
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I completely understand and agree. However MMV due to insulin. I can think stand rollercoatering and doing corrections. Weighing my food keeps everything simple. My proteins are almost always weighed and prepackaged. So all I need to do is slice avo and chop a few veggies for lunch. Bf is standard and dinner is same as lunch but I have some of hubbies salad and pick at his protein when he’s not looking Haha. He DOES know I do that.
 
I only weight ingredients for recipes, I have not needed to weight food to lose weight or contorl BG. But I just advoid food like rice rathern then working out how much I can getaway with.
 
Nope. I have a strong family history of eating orders.
If I start being too detail obsessive, I feel myself falling in to habits I saw expamples of growing up. Not a way I want to live.
I find LCHF easy to do and live a pretty normal healthy life.
 
I did weigh my food initially, or measured it such as by a particular sized spoonful or by an actual count such as with cherry toms. I only did this whilst I was losing weight and trying to stabilise. That was 3 years ago. I haven't weighed anything since, but still do count/use spoons on certain things. I think I'm a pretty good judge, and if I were over doing things significantly my weight would start to increase.

Edited to add - I do still keep a very basic food diary (no portion sizes) on the same excel sheet as my original so I can look back and compare with the last time I had that meal. Amazing how different BS levels can be after a similar meal.
 
No . I have bought a weight but mostly I just estimate how much I eat of a food kind and also look at the packet how much is in it and notice the carb and protein ratio..pro 100 grams.. and then I also use to scan some foods into my APP ; "Lifesum" where in I write everything I eat and drink daily
 
I do weigh my food. When I started out low carbing I just used broad principles and didn’t weigh or count anything. Then I started recording in an app out of interest to see what I was consuming. Now I find it helpful to be able to adjust macros or specific meals. Not anal about it, but good to have a clear understanding of what I’m consuming.
 
I weighed things religiously when I was first diagnosed to get accurate carb counts for meals that I make. Now I only weigh new meals, and recipes. Like Bluetit I record all my meals and blood sugar readings on a spread sheet. I now just look back at the last time I ate a meal for the carb count. I love looking back at old readings to see how far I’ve come. For instance my standard roast chicken dinner showed readings of 6.7 pre and 7.1 post meal back in May. Last Sunday the same dinner showed 5.7 and 5.1 respectively :happy: (yes I regularly show a lower reading after a roast dinner than before these days!)
 
I've never weighed my food, although I'm on a very flexible insulin regime. I'm a lot better at insulin-guessing than at carb- (or protein- or whatever food component-)counting. I really hope this keeps working for me, as I love to eat spontaneously, either food I made myself or food someone else comes up with, or the occasional street snack. I never weigh myself either, but my DN did several times since my diagnosis last year. First time in years for me.
 
Those that have answered yes, is it all macros or just carbs or certain ones ?
 
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