Any one tried one of these??

Vinnie K

Hey all,
Finding it fairly confusing to calculate my daily calorie intake and have been looking around for something th help me.
I found this http://www.digital-scales-company.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=86&products_id=277&zenid=a6520553ca688ec02e1151a7d548a88c just wondering peoples opinions on these, would they be any good or has anyone tried them??
Thanks in advance.
Vinnie.

Hanley

If that works it might just be the greatest thing ever...

t-ha

I can't vouch for particular brandnames, but I know they exist and do work.
Dr. Berardi, for one, is a fan.

rubadub

There are a fair few like that, and cheaper. they have them on ebay.
Calculating calories is pretty basic, and if you have a digital scales you can zero it. So making mixtures can be calculated easily.
e.g.
Put on bowl & zero/tare it
add in museli, 50g, zero
add in milk 150ml~150g.

Then add them up. After you have calculated your most regular meals there is no need to weigh, you just know by the look of it.
That might be useful if you were bad at maths, but I would make sure I could reprogram and enter different values in

Vinnie K

Hanley wrote:

If that works it might just be the greatest thing ever...

I'll second that!

@rubadub, I was looking for a scales to do just that as well but when i seen this one i was thinking why not pay the extra few quid and get the best of both worlds, i think it would be useful for myself for reassurance anyway, i only started dieting and i'm not too confident when counting calories yet, all the time after i eat i get a guilty feeling just incase i've had too much, ya i know that prob sounds stupid.

nesf

I saw one of those in Meadows & Byrnes for €125 (I think) last week. Personally I don't see the point, all you need is a decent digital scales that can be zeroed (€20-30) and you can do everything that that does. If you didn't have internet access or computer access it would be a godsend but with internet access and a computer it doesn't take very long to work out the nutritional data of a meal to be honest.

depadz

should they not have peeled the banana before weighing it?

rubadub

burntCornlake wrote:

@rubadub, I was looking for a scales to do just that as well but when i seen this one i was thinking why not pay the extra few quid and get the best of both worlds,

Nearly all digital scales will have a zero/tare button. But I meant there are plenty of other scales that will calculate calories too. That one does look pretty good but I would have a search around there could be the same thing cheaper, or a better one for the same price.

Due to the work I am in I am pretty handy at maths and like the simplicity of calorie counting.

This would help but it does help to know exactly what is going on and read labels in supermarkets and understand them.

should they not have peeled the banana before weighing it?

This is a very good point. I noticed some shelled nuts in supermarkets have very low % fat but they have included the shell in the weight. If you know what the fat should be you can also see if the nuts are good value. i.e. if shelled nuts have 25% fat, then I know unshelled are about 50%, so I am only getting half of the advertised weight in actual food.

Same goes for tins or jars of food, carrots might be in brine and have the weight of water added to the food values.

Also cooked food will lose water so if weighing you should note if the kcals are for frozen or cooked.

You get some oddball readings. Like some oven chips show a higher calorie count per 100g cooked if they are done in the oven rather than deep fried!
This is since in the oven they lose lots of water, they cook quickly in the frier and retain water.