success without a food scale

spatulamom

Somebody_Loved wrote: »

TheOwlhouseDesigns wrote: »

Some things a way before. Like when i make a recipe here in MFP and i divede it in serving sizes
But most of the time i just put my plate on the scale
Turn it on ( it will start at zero then)
put on veggies..write down the weight and zero it out again ( TARA button) put on meat. write it down ( and zero it out) Put on potatoes, write it down and zero out etc etc done just a few seconds

I had no idea you could do this until someone posted about it last week. I think this is why people think weighing is time consuming - because they don't know how to efficiently use a food scale. Mine was sitting on my counter hardly being used before I found out that function last week. Now I use it daily!

I use my scale religiously, but have never even thought about doing it this way. This would have made weighing everything for my turkey tacos a lot easier tonight.

Kexessa

Like most things I think everyone is different and finds different ways to achieve the same goal. For me, I am now using a scale for about half of my food items. Most vegetables or pre-portioned items like a wrap I don't. For my "problem" foods that I discovered I simply can not eyeball I weigh. Things like peanut butter, hummus, salad dressing, avocado, cheese, beans and rice, those types of things I have to weigh. Broccoli, tomatoes, spinach, sugar snap peas, yellow squash, those type of things I don't bother. I couldn't over eat them to make a significant dent in my calorie allotment each day.

daniwilford

I am a big fan of accurate data. I like analyzing what works so I can do more of it. If I am not getting the expected or desired result, I have something to look at and tweak. I use as accurate and varied measurements as I can to get to my goal.

initialsdeebee

I am able to lose weight without weighing anything and my deficit is not big. 0.5 pounds per week and not planning to lose more than 15 total. I agree that a scale can be an interesting learning opportunity to see what portions actually look like, but in my opinion it's just fine to eyeball, look at packages, use a measuring cup or spoon when convenient, and eat. It seems like so many people on this site are so adamant about precision and weighing--freaked out about how every person and every package always vastly under estimates calories all the time. The way I see it if it's possible to under estimate, it's possible to over estimate, and so it can (and for me does) balance out, as long as you're not being totally careless and have an idea of the calories in something (which is the magic of this website). If you want to use a scale, that's all good and people can do what they want--but the key is whatever works. I just like to hear and offer another, more relaxed stance sometimes. Most important though, if it works for you, it's not an inferior method.

DawnieB1977

doylejohnpaul787 wrote: »

mantium999 wrote: »

Would cheese slices, packaged in a way that the nutrition facts are listed on the front, be less valuable that a block of cheese that you have to cut yourself?

You are clearly a stranger to quality cheese.

Haha are cheese slices even real cheese? And don't get me started on the squeezey cheese I had the misfortune to be given the one time I went to the US...