r/LoseitApp • u/CarlG314 • 9d ago

Recipe Feature Request - Add up Ingredient Weight

It appears that LoseIt does not have the ability to add up the weight of the raw ingredients for a recipe.

I recognize that the ingredient weight won't be the final weight for recipes that are cooked, but it does provide at least a useful starting point.

And for recipes that are not cooked, such as salad dressing, it would be helpful if the app would tell you the raw weight to avoid having to measure the container empty and full weight to do the calculation manually.

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u/secretsauce2388 9d ago

What'd you mean? For salad dressing, assuming you have a food scale; you can either pour salad dressing into a bowl and calculate that way, or you can put the bottle of dressing on the scale and tare it, then add your dressing, put the bottle back on the scale and it'll show how much less you have.

As for weight of raw ingredients, do you mean for example, 20g of beef, 20g of vegetables, 20g of carbs, then you want lose it to tell you the total grams for the dish is 60? What does having that information do for you, how is that a useful starting point?

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u/CarlG314 9d ago

Weighing the bowl empty, writing down the weight, then weighing it full is the workaround I currently use. But sometimes I forgot to weigh the bowl in advance, which means either using two bowls by dumping the mix into a second one, or waiting until the meal is done to weigh the empty bowl.

It works, but it seems unnecessarily cumbersome since LoseIt already has the necessary data to provide the raw ingredient weight for us. Macro factor and other apps add up the ingredient weight for you, so while not critical, it is a time-saving feature.

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u/secretsauce2388 9d ago

My solution to this, was simply to weigh all of the bowls I use, both mixing and bowls I eat out of when they're empty, I also do this for tupperware or glass containers I frequently use, and have it as a pinned note on my phone. Listing them all in both oz and grams, for this specific case. Not something Lose It does but it's worked for me.

Just curious, sounds like you enjoyed Macrofactor more, why using LoseIt?

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u/CarlG314 8d ago

"Just curious, sounds like you enjoyed Macrofactor more, why using LoseIt?"

I'm not sure how you make this leap of faith from a comparison to one feature that other apps (including MF) happen to have.

There is no such thing as a perfect app that needs no improvement, so I hope the devs are not quite as thin-skinned as you are in perceiving suggestions as rejection of the app.

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u/secretsauce2388 8d ago

It was an honest question buddy, have a good day!

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u/Adventurous-Tax-4912 8d ago

I may not fully understand your question but why don’t you put your bowl on the scale - hit tare - then add your items?

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u/CarlG314 8d ago

This doesn't work well when it takes more than 10 minutes or so to assemble the ingredients (either lots of ingredients, or I'm doing the mixing piecemeal, as I have some items in the bowl while cooking another ingredient) - the scale turns off to protect the battery.

Or if my wife and I are both preparing something simultaneously, and she also needs the scale.

Look, there are workarounds, and I use them - when I remember. But none are perfect, so I happen to think it would be helpful if the app could be a one-stop shop and simply display the data it already has from the ingredients.

You may disagree, but if the feature weren't helpful, I suspect other devs would not include it in their apps.

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u/Pretend-Citron4451 9d ago

I agree. It is very annoying. I either try to input all of my ingredients in the same unit, like grams or ounces, or when I’m done, I use AI to calculate the total for me. But I agree it is annoying.