Originally Posted by
MST
Agreed, even whilst using Nutracheck which gives you the calories on a plate (no pun intended) I still try to weigh whatever I'm eating or drinking and the kcal value is different quite often; dramatically so in some cases.
For example, I had a Fibre One chocolate fudge brownie this morning, the packet weight is 24g but the actual weight was 27g. 3g difference, big deal! I hear you say, but in this case that constitutes an extra 9 kcals. Multiply that by X and you may just blow your calorie target and undermine your efforts.
I'm not suggesting you carry a pair of scales around everywhere you go, you could do - I have a set in the office, but it's worth doing where practicable.
I'm 6'4" and currently weigh 16st 10.8lb, in order for me to lose 2lb per week my current base calorie target is 1,937 kcal per day.