More Numbers: Oops

By byebyebuddhabelly

Today’s Total Calories: 1286

I learned something really important today: milliliters are not the same thing as grams. See, I have in my kitchen a dry measuring cup and I assumed it measured grams. Turns out it measures milliliters. Somehow I had in my brain that milliliters were a liquid measurement and grams were for dry items. Not quite. So for the last couple weeks I have measured all dry items wrong unless I used the scale. Oops.

I thought I was eating 100 grams of muesli for breakfast but really it was 100 milliliters and only weighed 40 grams. So there are several days were I was off by about 200 calories just for this one food item.

At least I’m learning right?

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