RachBlue
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This is my CC-ing kit, in case anyone's new to the idea & interested - please add your own if you have other "tools of the trade"!
Salter digital scales that add in 1g increments - important to be that detailed for things like butter, oils etc where going 3g out could be 24cals;
scrap paper held with a bulldog clip to note cals on foods as I'm cooking, plus its own pen - I use the back of letters and printed waste, torn into A6 size, this pad gets the occasional food/damp stain because I use it while cooking;
binder for noting my daily cals, lives in my front room, I got an A5 binder with a solar-powered calculator included, and added an A5 graph paper book, with a column for "Name:" (ie what I eat/drink) and a column for "N°s:" - the calories. I keep a 15cm ruler & a seperate pen in the binder so I never can't find one and let something slip, and I have columns for 3 days a page so I can see how I'm doing in general;
a couple of cal-counting books + (sorry to keep mentioning it!
) The Calorie, Carb & Fat Bible book, which is huge and comprehensive;
a list of weights measured dry & empty for all the plates, bowls, saucepans etc I use - useful for things like canned toms, I can just empty them straight into a pan, pick out the stalks & skin etc, then weigh the pan and subtract it from the total, it felt a bit obsessive doing it but it actually saves faff in the long run;
bookmarks for other info, eg USDA food database, it has a lot of American-centric foods and offers measurement by "cups" but also thankfully by 100g, and it's useful to know amino acid breakdowns as well if you're into that;
a Word doc on my PC's desktop with cals & other info for things where I had to write to the manufacturer, eg Sainsbury's bakery loose jam doughnuts, a once-in-a-blue-moon thing if I have an early start, and also a quick-view of things I can have for under 100cals, eg a Milky Way bar or how many crackers & cheese, etc;
list of my winning recipes, or plans for certain types of days that have stood the test, in a nice A4 display book (with the clear pockets) from Rymans...
I think that's all my "must haves", of these only the scales & daily note book are essential I guess, but I get inspired when stuff looks great and love fancy notebooks etc, other people might be less into that stuff! :8855:
Also, I plan to keep CC-ing throughout maintenance, ie potentially permanently, so these are things I want to really work long term...
Salter digital scales that add in 1g increments - important to be that detailed for things like butter, oils etc where going 3g out could be 24cals;
scrap paper held with a bulldog clip to note cals on foods as I'm cooking, plus its own pen - I use the back of letters and printed waste, torn into A6 size, this pad gets the occasional food/damp stain because I use it while cooking;
binder for noting my daily cals, lives in my front room, I got an A5 binder with a solar-powered calculator included, and added an A5 graph paper book, with a column for "Name:" (ie what I eat/drink) and a column for "N°s:" - the calories. I keep a 15cm ruler & a seperate pen in the binder so I never can't find one and let something slip, and I have columns for 3 days a page so I can see how I'm doing in general;
a couple of cal-counting books + (sorry to keep mentioning it!
) The Calorie, Carb & Fat Bible book, which is huge and comprehensive;a list of weights measured dry & empty for all the plates, bowls, saucepans etc I use - useful for things like canned toms, I can just empty them straight into a pan, pick out the stalks & skin etc, then weigh the pan and subtract it from the total, it felt a bit obsessive doing it but it actually saves faff in the long run;
bookmarks for other info, eg USDA food database, it has a lot of American-centric foods and offers measurement by "cups" but also thankfully by 100g, and it's useful to know amino acid breakdowns as well if you're into that;
a Word doc on my PC's desktop with cals & other info for things where I had to write to the manufacturer, eg Sainsbury's bakery loose jam doughnuts, a once-in-a-blue-moon thing if I have an early start, and also a quick-view of things I can have for under 100cals, eg a Milky Way bar or how many crackers & cheese, etc;
list of my winning recipes, or plans for certain types of days that have stood the test, in a nice A4 display book (with the clear pockets) from Rymans...
I think that's all my "must haves", of these only the scales & daily note book are essential I guess, but I get inspired when stuff looks great and love fancy notebooks etc, other people might be less into that stuff! :8855:
Also, I plan to keep CC-ing throughout maintenance, ie potentially permanently, so these are things I want to really work long term...
