Can you honestly judge your portion sizes and how long did it take you?

stealthq

rabbitjb wrote: »

I'm good with grated cheese

I often wonder if there is some kind of school hypnosis programme in the States that indoctrinates you all into loving Peanut Butter?

Lots of parents here feed their kids a peanut butter sandwich multiple times per week. It's super quick to make, and keeps at room temp. Plus, even picky kids will usually eat it.

There may have been entire weeks where I had PB&J for every lunch and still was not bored with it.

DawnieB1977

I'm pretty good...I'll slice some cheese (aiming for 30g) and it'll be 29 or 31g. Or I'll put some peanut butter on my apple, and it'll be 19g (aiming for 20).

I didn't use to weigh most foods and I lost 66lbs after my 2nd baby, so I must've been doing something right. I do weigh now (losing after my 3rd baby) and I'm losing at the same rate.

stealthq

I'm OK for most things. My tendency is to shortchange myself rather than the reverse.

I do have a problem with larger fruits/veg. I'm just not used to grams and can't seem to get the hang of what 300+ grams looks like. Most things I've been measuring are under that.

exstromn

Some things I have memorized like popcorn if I use the exact same bowl or container. Some extreemly low cal things in the veggie catagory I feel are not worth the bother, so I don't sweat them. But in general I can't trust myself to get it right, I end up thinking it "looks" like I can have more when Its actually at the measurement or slightly over. I don't like being a slave to the scale, but I do a lot of home cooking and need to use it. If I ate "pre-packaged" frozen dinners etc, I could relax a little, but I am trying to give up overly processed (and over priced) foods. So the work continues...

GothyFaery

I've been weighing my food for about a year and a half now and I'm pretty good at eyeballing things when I think about it. The problem for me is when I'm not using a scale, I typically don't even think about portion size until after I've poured it and I always over pour then realize it's way too much.

jenniferinfl

rabbitjb wrote: »

So after 9 months of weighing and conscientiously logging this morning I free-poured my eggwhites into the bowl I've used every morning to see if I could adequately judge portion size without looking at the scale.

aiming for 80 - 100g, I actually poured 126g (I appreciate that with eggwhites that means diddly-squat)

so it seems I've still not quite got it

if you judge portion sizes how long did it take you to train yourself to do it somewhat accurately

I can cut exactly two ounces of ham. I can also get cheese really close to one ounce, think .9 or 1.1 close. But, as soon as I quit weighing, I start sliding right away.

AmZam05

I've been using my food scale for nearly a year and I'm just starting to get to the point where I can estimate really well on certain things. My best ones are cashews, peanuts, (whole nuts, not peanut butter like most of you ) and shredded cheese. This is probably because I'm holding it in my hand and feeling the size instead of just looking at it. If I'm putting peanut butter or some other delicious breakfast spread on toast, I'm usually very close since I know how much surface coverage a tablespoon will get me.

But still...I weigh everything. It's a miracle the batteries haven't died in my scale yet.

annette_15

Im pretty good, I have no problem maintaining if on holidays or going somewhere for an extended period without my scale, but when I'm home I still always weigh because I like knowing for sure

rungirl1973

After being on these forums for a while, I checked myself just to be sure. Yeah, I'm pretty good at eyeballing everything I've checked.

Of course, I started my obsession with nutrition young. I've been counting calories in some way on and off since I was about 12 or so...

CooCooPuff

It depends on the week and what kind of food it is. I'm awful at eyeballing egg whites and peanut butter but pretty dang good with cottage cheese most of the time.