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Originally Posted by Gangrel  Can you do a baseline measurement with your empty plate first? Or do you always have to put the food on the scale dish first, THEN onto whatever plate you are eating with?
I'm just wondering if you have to deduct the weight of your plate first or not..... |
Whoa...sorry dude, I didn't see this question.
You can easily work around your plate/bowl. You either put the plate on before you turn it on (and then when you turn it on it's at zero), or you put the plate on after you turn it on and then press the "Tare" button, which zeroes it out. It's super easy.
Anyway, I just wanted to give an update on this. I'm still LOVING my scale - more than I even thought I would. It's super easy to use and there are codes for just about everything! Sometimes I don't use the codes, but instead I look on the package of whatever I'm eating for how many g's of carbs per g of food and then do it that way. I was amazed at how different some things were from the "basic" guidelines (e.g. It takes a pretty small apple to make only 15g of carbs. Most are more.) and also how inaccurate my "measuring cup measuring" has been for stuff like cereal or pasta that doesn't fit real well into a measuring cup. And it definitely has an effect on my bloodsugars to be using the actual carb values in my I:C calculations instead of the estimates I was using before.
I find now I'm getting more accurate with my eyeballing too, since I know for sure now what 15g of this or 20g of that looks like.
I recommend one of these scales for everyone who carb counts! Scales all around! Scales for everyone! Rah rah scales!
