Patrick asked how I'm doing with all of that - well, not that great.
I've got no real concept of what Xg's of this and X grams of that looks like, and as I'm travelling and eating out it's proving hard to figure. I did some Google hunting, but didn't get anything useful in helping convert grams to an amount of food. (Anyone got any tips?)
I'm home for 24 hrs, so I plan to weigh and eat as I go today and tomorrow.
Well, I always use a "standard bowl of rice" to eyeball 200 grams. So I can picture what an oveflowing bowl of rice looks like, and use that to compare to a handful of food.
ReplyDeleteTry measuring out something (pasta, apple, whatever) and get an eyeball for how big it is, how dense it is, how it feels in the hand. Then you can sort of go "That's about as much X as a fistful of pasta, ergo Y grams."
Also, trust your stomach. After a few weeks you will be able to feel when you've eaten 100 grams versus 200...PCP skillz!
not PCP skillz... its just your KUNG FU showing through haha
ReplyDeleteEven after 90 days on the PCP I can't eyeball some foods and tell you how much they weigh. Certain things that I ate all the time -- tortillas, bread, chicken -- I can pretty much get right. But something I haven't weighed 50 times... no idea. My scale is really small and flat, easily packable -- maybe consider getting something you can take with you and weigh things as much as possible?
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