Early Christmas present

ReenieHJ

I bought myself a food scale. I have a hard time measuring certain things like meats.
Do you use yours to measure most everything?
My dh asked me why I needed to be so accurate. I told him that not measuring could make a big difference in how many calories I'm counting in my estimates vs. reality. He still didn't really 'get it'.

raspeary

I need to start weighing and measuring things as i tend to overestimate portion sizes 🥴

BarbaraHelen2013

I’m English so a scale in the kitchen is just natural, it’s what I’ve always used when cooking or baking as a child. I use it for everything and don’t really see why anyone would do otherwise.

How’re you going to know what you’re doing, whether cooking or counting calories if you don’t know the weight of your ingredients? 🤷‍♀️

So to answer your question - yes, I weigh everything.

Shortgirlrunning

I weigh pretty much everything. It was a bit of a hassle at first but now it’s just habit. It only takes an extra two seconds to do.

And it’s so much better for cooking/baking anyway.

Katmary71

I weigh everything. I was under-estimating even things like apples. Peanut butter and oils are notoriously wrong without weighing. I weigh meat before cooking.

AnnPT77

FYI, this post (despite the click-bait joke title) talks about tips for using a food scale efficiently:

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

Once you get some of those practices into your routine, it's not only more accurate, it's easier and quicker than using cups/spoons. Given that, of course I use it for most everything.

As far as convincing/reassuring hubs, you might want to show him the video in this thread:

https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10634517/you-dont-use-a-food-scale/p1

apullum

Weigh it ALL.

For foods that are messy or in small pieces: put container on scale, tare, put food in container. It sounds simple, but that took me way too long to figure out.

MelanieCN77

I was hoping for "A PELOTON???"

kshama2001

MelanieCN77 wrote: »

I was hoping for "A PELOTON???"

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

For those who didn't get the Peloton reference, or did and want to talk about it more: https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10774535/peloton-ad/p1