Last March, my sister gave me a birthday gift I honestly thought was a joke, a kitchen scale. Not a regular one. This one had a screen that showed calories, protein, carbs, and fat automatically. You just put food on it, told it what the food was, and it did the rest.
"It's called EverMetric," she said. "Just try it."
I rolled my eyes. Another gadget. Another gimmick.
But I tried it the next morning with my usual "healthy" breakfast: two eggs, avocado toast, a handful of blueberries. I'd been logging this as 340 calories for months.
The scale said 611.
I stared at it. Then I weighed everything separately.
- The avocado: I'd been eyeballing "a quarter" but my portions were consistently half an avocado. That alone was an extra 120 calories.
- The bread: 40 calories more per slice than the generic entry I'd been using in MyFitnessPal.
- The blueberries: I was pouring way more than a serving. Not that blueberries are bad — but they add up.
My most "disciplined" meal was 80% more calories than I thought.