By Kim Felix
When it comes to accuracy in your mobile food journal, measuring your food can be extremely helpful. It’s a good idea to invest in a good food scale if you don’t already have one because a lot of calorie content is done by weight instead of volume. It’s hard to decide if your apple is small, medium, or large, but if you know that there are 40 calories in 6 ounces of an apple, then you can measure your apple and get an accurate idea of just how many calories you’ve taken in.
The database in your mobile food tracker can often tell you how many calories or nutrients are in a certain food item, but since you often don’t get exactly 3 ounces of meat in any one steak, you can make sure that you are getting exactly 3 ounces by measuring your food. It’s a lot easier to measure out half a cup of mashed potatoes with a measuring cup than it is to guess how many cups are in each ladle full. Once you know exactly how many calories you are taking in, you can be sure that your diary is as accurate as possible.
Careful measurements are also important if you are using features like the diabetes tracker. When you are managing a chronic condition like diabetes, it can be crucial to know just how many sugars you are taking into your body. In this case using measuring cups, spoons, and scales can be the only thing that keeps you on track. Food isn’t the only thing that you can measure when you use an online journal with this feature because you can also track your body and blood measurements, particularly your blood glucose levels.
When you are aiming for success with your online food diary, accuracy is one of the most important things. It’s no good to track all of your meals if you have the portions wrong because you will end up having consumed more calories than your goal and weight loss can become more difficult. By keeping up with the measurements of your food you can be certain that what you are entering into your journal is exactly what you ate, which can lead to a much easier time losing weight.
