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i don't know... we don't deviate much from what we eat so it's really about that initial tracking and seeing the results. after that you can kind of "eye-ball"
by ookblah 4y ago
i don't know... we don't deviate much from what we eat so it's really about that initial tracking and seeing the results. after that you can kind of "eye-ball" what you are eating. the hard part is just being brutally honest with what you are actually eating and tracking at the beginning.
tbf it's like any learned skill, it sucks at the beginning but over time it gets easier. when i started getting serious about my fitness i was tracking it meticulously but now i rarely do.
- vladvasiliu 4y agoI somewhat agree. The issue though, at least for me, is that I can only "eyeball" somewhat reliably when I know what I'm looking at. So, when I eat something "new", meaning that I've never measured, all bets are off. I'm thinking restaurant / takeout mostly. Because you never know what they put in the food. And the usual suspects of carbs and fat loaded with salt can easily throw you off if you don't pay attention.
- SamPatt 4y agoI find when I begin eyeballing things I inevitably start to get them wrong. For example, apples with peanut butter is my favorite snack. I initially measured out and weighed the peanut butter, then used the same entry for calorie counting and eyeballed it for a while. I eventually measured again, and I was eating nearly 50% more peanut butter than my initial entry! I imagine I probably added just a little bit more each time, because my brain really loves peanut butter. I don't think I do this with proteins, but with carbs and anything sweet I definitely do. So I have to be very careful.