Weighing food
 

I bought a digital food scale. I am a life-time serial dieter and believed I could eyeball my portion sizes just from past experience alone. For some reason, this time I am serious about getting the weight off and being healthy.

The scale was a smart move. I can get amounts accurate, and also discovered that I was short-changing myself by eyeballing the portion sizes.

So I have my measuring cups and spoons handy as well. Everything works together and heads me towards the goal.

I have lost forty pounds since January. I am happy with this.

congrats on your succes! I agree, a scale is the way to go.

Yup, I have my favorite Pyrex measuring cup (which I often eat from, to save washing another dish :D) and an old analog food scale. I don't weigh everything, but meat, cheese and the like I always do. "Eye-balling" is OK if need be, but I agree that weighing and measuring are best.

Regards,
Michael

I weight things also. I just wish that all foods would stick to grams, for instance (might as well go that way instead of pounds and ounces, since the rest of the world goes that way) and not use cups and tbsp. I can see how you must use a cup for liquids, but for something like cooked rice, why not just have the weight instead of a cup?

shibaluvr: I was doing the same as you - with all the "30 oz of meat is the size of a deck of cards" and "1 oz of cheese is the size of your thumb" -type estimates, I thought I was logging my portions correctly, but I was definitely short-changing myself as well. My digital kitchen scale is the best $20 I have ever spent! Now I can either eat more, or log the smaller amount properly...and it also keeps me from lying to myself about too large portion sizes! I would definitely recommend a scale to anyone on fitday who hasn't tried one yet!

I have been weighing food for a long time. I took all the cups,Tsp and such and converted all food I eat to a weight in grams. The only measuring device is my scale. easy....

Weighing food scale helps a lot..
its shows great advantages of it.
i liked the points u have shared.
hope it would also help me..
thanks..

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I also use a digital scale for weighing foods. It has really helped me to understand the quantities of food that I eat. Just guessing is not the best for me, as I normally guess way under what the actual weight is.

loose weight
 

There are many exercises and pills to loose weight but loosing weight in a real sense doesn't mean that you should stop eating but it actually means to take food on a right time and up to real quantity don't over weight your meal. Definitely you will see some positive results.

Digital scales are a must have
 

I just got a digital scale for weighing food. I really like it. It replaces an ancient, mechanical one (plus or minus about 1/2 pound). The first time I used it, it saved me 200 calories. Instead of weighing a potato, I would have just entered "one potato" into my food log. That would have been off by 50%.

My food scale can switch between ounces and grams and I do notice most nutrition labels that have things by quanity also have it by weight for the serving size. For example I had a box of crackers and the serving size on it was 24 crackers, but the weight for the serving size was 30 grams on the label. So if I have a bunch of broken crackers at the bottom of the box I don't have to toss them out just weigh them.

Before I got my food scale I really wasn't able to eat anything but pre-packaged foods and count the calories accurately.

i just received in the mail the bed bath and beyond circular and they have a pretty snazzy digital scale on sale. what caught my eye was the area you would put the food seemed large enough to accommodate a plate.

Mine is a regular, manual? old food scale and the area you put the food/plate on is just a couple inches in width. Kind of annoying really the space is so small.

LOL I never thought about that. Good idea. I'd always just guestimate the broken crackers.

Before you buy anything, you may want to go to "the website with the name that sounds like a tropical rain forest" just to check out their reviews. They may have one on your potential scale purchase.

There's a scale with over 2,500 reviews there, and the bulk of them are 5 star ratings. That's the one I just got. It does grams, ounces, kilograms, and pounds.

And from now on, I don't have to go to the post office to have them weigh my small packages before I put postage on them.

i hadn't even thought about amazon, but i really should have. everything is on there.

i think i see the 1 you purchased and it's a better price. Incredible reviews, wow. Add to wish list.

thx Vito!

Thanks I usually go by weight on serving sizes now. I measured out a serving of rice by weight and it was smaller than the cup measure would have shown it.

So if it's oatmeal or rice or anything like that I go by the serving size in ounces or grams, not "one cup".

Haven't checked out this scale yet, but I got one that does grams, ounces, etc. at Walmart for around $20. Feel real good about the job it's doing...

On the topic of scales.....
Are we suppose to weight meat raw or cooked for recording purposes?

I think raw, but I think there are some entries in the system for cooked meat too.