Serving size/oz visual resource? Anyone?

g_racedisneygirl

Anyone know of a good resource or have a favorite visual on serving sizes or ounces so I don't have to try to measure and weigh everything I eat?

cmriverside

My food scale was my best teacher. Those online charts (there are a lot of them) don't seem very accurate to me. Once I used a food scale for a while I had a very good sense of portions when I was out.

kimny72

I honestly couldn't lose any weight until I started weighing everything. I am better at eyeballing now, because I've seen what my fave foods look like in my dishes after weighing out a portion, but it's based on experience, not any sort of system.

It gets way easier as you go, if that helps, and removes my typical doubt and anxiety.

Anyway, sorry but in my experience visuals aren't trustworthy. Maybe someone else has something that works for them, but I'd still suggest you use the scale whenever you can

apullum

You need to weigh your food whenever possible if you want an accurate sense of how much you're eating. The more you estimate, the less accurate your logging will be.

AnnPT77

It helps if you learn to use a food scale efficiently: It really adds very little time to meal prep, once you know the tricks.

This thread (despite the joke/click-bait title) is about how to use a food scale efficiently:

https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10498882/weighing-food-takes-too-long-and-is-obsessive

After one uses a scale for a while, one's eye for portions gets good-ish. I still use a scale for precision (like I said, it doesn't add appreciable time), but I usually guess before looking, and am usually within a gram on things like nuts or peanut butter, a little further off on fluffy dry stuff like uncooked oatmeal, and maybe 2-3g off on cheese (because my secret brain wants moooorrrrrre cheese ).

puffbrat

cmriverside wrote: »

My food scale was my best teacher. Those online charts (there are a lot of them) don't seem very accurate to me. Once I used a food scale for a while I had a very good sense of portions when I was out.

This. I have gotten surprisingly good at guesstimating for when I am lazy or don't have a scale but that is only after about a year or more of consistently using a scale and still "testing" myself occasionally.

LyndaBSS

g_racedisneygirl wrote: »

Anyone know of a good resource or have a favorite visual on serving sizes or ounces so I don't have to try to measure and weigh everything I eat?

Given the large number of members who start threads about worrisome weight gains when they swear they "measure everything", and then finding out they eyeball everything and weigh nothing, I would never ever recommend someone not measure and weigh their foods.