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

Of certain things I can. Meat is easy for me to eyeball, but not pasta or cheese. I'm okay with veggies and fruit from weighing out smoothie ingredients.

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ndj1979 wrote: »

sometimes I am spot on and sometimes I am waaayyyy off

This is me, too. The one thing I can judge well is peanut butter...I'm usually within a fraction of a gram for what a tbsp weighs. I've been weighing and measuring my food for a year and I'm still not confident enough to eyeball everything.

I've been logging and weighing a year and everything gets weighed, but I'm the same with peanut butter, it's my superpower! (sadly I now eke it out by the teaspoon, as overdoing the tablespoons of nut butter as snacks are one of the reasons I ended up needing MFP in the first place).

Randomly, I'm usually within 5g of guessing a sweet potato's weight too, but normal white potatoes always amaze me how heavy they are for the size!

I'm pretty good with shredded cheese and my lunch meat, but everything else I usually weigh...just in case

I can eyeball it after seeing the correct portion size once.

I'm spot on with peanut butter too, I wonder why so many people are?

i am usually pretty close, such as with a glass of milk i can usually judge oz pretty accurately. i think measuring and weighing everything helped with that. i think it helps to be able to at least give a somewhat accurate measure by "eyeballing it" in case i'm away from my scale.

Certain things yes.....Like cheese, and PB, and liquids(milk, juice, pop)

Other things - NO

Yes. I can't remember, maybe a year? It's funny, I'll put in a number sometimes and a voice inside goes "nope, wrong, add .5 a whatever".

I used and use measuring cups (everyone will say it's bad, lol, but whatever, it worked well enough to help me lose 50 lbs) + math from packaging. E.g. I'll use a given amount of ground beef (say it says 400 grams on the package) and decide it's worth 4 portions. I divide that up and store each portion separately. Or I'll chop up an onion and use the measuring cup to scoop it into the pan. So I'm constantly feeling and seeing and using proportions, using the cups. I wonder if that makes a difference (for me).

(when weight:volume isn't obvious, I google e.g. "how much is 0.5 cup ground beef in grams")

I've been doing it for several years. I can usually get pretty close but occasionally I'm way off. Because actually weighing only takes seconds, I still do it every day to avoid the variance.

It's a game I've been playing with myself for years. I'm really good at estimating ounces on the kitchen scale. So when we had to play a "guess the weight" game at a Christmas party, we had to pick up items from a table and guess. Guess who won?

Still, I religiously use my kitchen scale.

Heh, when I'm using up the remaining egg whites left in the carton, I'm always pretty amazed at how many more grams shaking out the last few drops adds to the total weight that I've weighed out. I always expect maybe it'll add another gram or 2 with the final shakes of the carton, but it adds something like 10-30 more.

I will eyeball stuff that's so low calorie it's barely worth the bother of precise weighing or logging, like celery and cucumbers.
Also almonds. Each almond weighs about a gram, and after a good while of weighing almonds and this seeming to be always the case with almonds, I just count the number of almonds I'm going to eat and log that number as grams.

I probably eyeball other stuff from time to time, but I can't think of anything else right now. Just about everything that's not single-serving pre-packaged will get weighed.

I can do it with most things I eat frequently, but that's because I've weighed it out into the same dishes probably a hundred times or more. I know exactly what 55g of veggie ground round looks like in a pan and I know exactly what 15g of goat cheese looks like because I eat them several times a week, but I still weigh them. It doesn't really take any extra time and then I know what I'm eating.

After being on this journey for awhile, I'm really good at judging most things. Since I use the same bowls/plates, I pretty much can eyeball it. However, just to keep my skills sharp every once in awhile I'll eyeball it and then weigh/measure it to make sure I'm on track. Note - weighing and measuring everything stresses me out way too much. As long as the scale is moving down, I'm good with the eyeball method.

I get close, but not close enough. I actually tend to underestimate most of the time