Wait.What? You even weigh THAT?

missysippy930

Don't weigh a thing.
Managed to lose 1/2 of my body weight from 3/2012 to 3/2013. As it happens to over 80% of us, managed to gain back 60 and am in the process of getting back to where I was 5 years ago. Still not weighing, still managing to lose without weighing my food. I am pretty good at measuring and eyeballing. So far it works for me. I keep well within my calorie budget. Will not be so strict that I feel I have to weigh everything. If it comes to the point that I am not losing, and I am not at my goal weight I may rethink this. Not for everyone, I realize, but works for me.

NovusDies

@alicedark

I don't think I said that. The OP has already chosen the weighing option so I was saying initially if you are going to do it to weigh everything before deciding what things like salad items you may want to eyeball. More to the point, I don't think it is wise to just copy what people are doing in this thread and their habits/systems before learning if it will work for them.

I am a huge advocate of individualized dieting. I meant only to suggest an initial period of education not a long-tem necessity unless the OP needs it.

rose2_0

I honestly don't do it unless I'm not losing

DomesticKat

I weigh almost everything, but that has more to do with the fact that I got fat eating huge amounts of food. I honestly had no idea what a proper portion of anything was or how many calories were in something. So weighing what I eat is quite an eye-opening and educational experience. There are plenty of people who lose just fine without weighing everything or anything. Some people do a great job of eating intuitively. I'm personally not one of them. I think it also depends on what you're eating. I have a big family and rarely eat things that are single serving.

rheddmobile

I weigh, but not every time. Basically I weigh a new packaged food once to find out if it's consistent with the stated size on the package. Some are, some are very far off - for example my fancy bread weighs twice as much per slice as the package says.

Other things I weigh until I learn what a serving looks like, then every once in a while for calorie dense foods like peanut butter to be sure my estimate isn't creeping upward. My trick with peanut butter is to get it out of the jar using a teaspoon - even a level tablespoon weighs more than the supposed serving size, but a heaping teaspoon is about right.

Low calorie items like sticks of celery and cherry tomatoes, I don't weigh.

hipari

The only thing I weigh consistently is nuts, when I’m prepping snack packs. Currently I don’t weigh other items, as I just don’t have the time and energy, and I just eyeball things based on ”I ate a third of that container” kind of reasoning. I don’t eat peanut butter, which most people in this thread apparently enjoy, so that’s not a weighing issue for me. If there’s a larger container of something but I eat all of it over the course of several days, I make sure my logging adds up to one full container.

For veggies, I completely eyeball, or use the general ”tomato, one whole” types of logging items. I might get back to weighing more food items and tightening my grip on my diet when my schedule winds down in a few weeks.

amusedmonkey

I always weigh new packaged foods a few times. Some brands are pretty darn consistent (my tuna, for example, weighs almost exactly 140 grams every time I tried, so I log that as 140 grams every time). Once I've established what's consistent and what's not, I only weight things that aren't very consistent. Weetabix claims a certain weight per 2 wafers, but I've always found my wafers weigh more (or less if one crumbled off too much), and I usually use 3-4, so it's not insignificant. I weigh and go by gram.

ETA: for vegetable salads, if I'm not the one preparing it or if it has many ingredients and I'm in a hurry I don't weigh all ingredients. In that case, I just weigh the whole thing before dressing and log it as one vegetable. For example, mom makes a very simple but tasty salad of cucumbers, tomatoes, red onions, and extra virgin sunflower oil. I portion out and weigh my salad, log it as tomatoes, add as much oil as my calories can handle for that meal, and I'm good to go.

bunnyluv19

I weighed a chocolate toasted-coconut donut from Timmy’s( calorie dense),I was eating at home out of curiosity and it weighed over the nutrition facts weight- I did the math& added the extra calories on_I weigh mostly everything at home( not iceberg lettuce)-especially if calorie dense or I’m eating a packaged food on the regular-I had a bad experience not weighing rye bread_but got suspicious b/c the slices were so,big-and the nutrition facts went by 1 slice and it ended up weighing almost twice! Say salsa or yogurt etc I use measuring spoons/cups.

amusedmonkey

Interesting how many people don't weigh their yogurt. I always do. Then again, mine is whole fat (9% fat for Greek) so I do need to weigh it.

psychod787

amusedmonkey wrote: »

Interesting how many people don't weigh their yogurt. I always do. Then again, mine is whole fat (9% fat for Greek) so I do need to weigh it.

I weigh mine.

paperpudding

I don't think there is a right or wrong answer to this or any compulsory thing you must do.

Weigh enough to be accurate enough - weighing and logging are tools or means to an end, not goals in themselves.

If whatever you are doing is working, based on real life results, ie whether you are losing as expected - then keep doing that.

Me personally - I never weighed to absolute accuracy - I called every similar size piece of whatever fruit a medium one, I accepted packages as having what they said, every slice of bread as being the same etc

That worked for me, and I reached my goal weight doing it that way throughout.

JeromeBarry1

It really matters in the last few pounds. This morning I had a piece of bread that was +20% less than the serving size listed on the nutrition facts. A couple of nights ago I had a granola bar that was 15% more. In the big picture, it only matters to me that I logged something. Logging something precisely is a technical capability both at home and at work, but I still find myself often agreeing that the Nutrition Facts is good enough.

ChelzFit

I have maintained for years now and I still weigh my cereals, bread, avocados, fruit, peanut butter, cheese, and meats. Things I don't weigh are packaged meals and protein bars...I know I should but if I am maintaining why bother. I usually have one frozen meal a day for lunch and two protein bars as snacks a day.

paperpudding

JeromeBarry1 wrote: »

It really matters in the last few pounds. This morning I had a piece of bread that was +20% less than the serving size listed on the nutrition facts. A couple of nights ago I had a granola bar that was 15% more. In the big picture, it only matters to me that I logged something. Logging something precisely is a technical capability both at home and at work, but I still find myself often agreeing that the Nutrition Facts is good enough.

That wasn't my experience.

As I said, I did the same thing throughout my weight loss journey, right to goal weight, and it worked for me the whole way.