Comments on: Welcome to My Weigh Station

By: Nancy Pennington

Nancy Pennington — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 18:48:01 +0000

PLEASE! Where can I buy this scale? Weigh Station. I can’t find anything online. Thanks!

By: Juanita Hernandez

Juanita Hernandez — Thu, 12 Apr 2007 14:31:49 +0000

Do you know where can i get this product?

By: Adam Price

Adam Price — Sun, 12 Nov 2006 20:32:46 +0000

I find this site really useful for finding the nutritional values of all foods, both raw and cooked (even has different values for different cooking methods): http://www.nutritiondata.com/ PS If you use firefox you can also add a plugin, which you can find on their website, that adds a search engine. Instead of having a google search box next to your address bar, you can have an ND box: just type in the food and it will take you (almost) straight to a page with that food's nutritional info.

By: Michelle

Michelle — Sat, 11 Nov 2006 19:29:24 +0000

A good recourse is to use the USDA’s free food search program (you can download versions to your PC’s desktop or to your PDA) from there you can figure carb factors for just about any food by finding how many carbs are in 1g of that food. I use this in combo with a $4 mini food scale.

By: Brian Leair

Brian Leair — Thu, 09 Nov 2006 02:16:26 +0000

So, are you relying strictly upon the scale’s codes? I used to use “carbohydrate factor” numbers. For example I think bananas are 0.23 carbs per each gram.

If you are using carb factors, have you found any good sources? I only found partial sources and that was furstrating. I know cooked brocoli has a way different factor than raw brocoli, and yet I would only find one value.

I must say that I still have scraps of paper in the kitchen so I can write out 220 gram * 0.23 = 50.6 / Ins-carb ratio = N units of insulin. Too many digits to do entirely in my head.

By: Scott K. Johnson

Scott K. Johnson — Wed, 08 Nov 2006 21:57:59 +0000

OMG – those are some gross sounding sandwiches man!!

How do you like the food database? Have you encountered a food that wasn’t in the database?

By: Annie

Annie — Wed, 08 Nov 2006 19:57:51 +0000

Ha! I can top the gross sandwich combo. My son LOVES pepperoni, butter, American cheese and peanut butter on a bagel. Disgusting!!!

By: George

George — Wed, 08 Nov 2006 17:01:33 +0000

I have this model too and I love it! Jana is right, use the zero feature with each ingredient and then add up all the carbs!

By: Jana

Jana — Wed, 08 Nov 2006 14:29:34 +0000

Hi Amy,

Good choice. I have the exact same model of food scale, and I have been very happy with it. To weigh loose things with factoring in the weight of the bowl you just press the “zero” button after you put the bowl on. Or if you turn on the scale with the bowl already on there, it won’t count the weight of the bowl. You can “zero” as many times as you want, so you can weigh your pasta on a plate, press zero, add some tomato sauce, press zero, and then add whatever else…a dinner roll or something. I think there’s also a way to get the scale to add up multiple food items like this, but I’ve not used that feature. These days, since I’ve become quite comfortable with carb counting, I just use the scale for fruit (bananas especially I find hard to judge) and for portions of rice, pasta, etc.