Has anyone posted on here "cant lose weight" then bought food scale and lost?

Yes. As I got closer to my goal, I needed to start weighing things and tighten up my logging to see continued progress.

Someone just posted a thread about this a few days ago. It was a forum lurker who had read the "if you aren't losing, buy a food scale" post over and over again. Bought one, started using it, weight started coming off again.

I wouldn't consistently lose weight without my food scale. Been using it for almost 4 years now, during the year I stopped using it and stopped logging I regained a lot of weight... People harp on about it for good reason!

slaite1 wrote: »

If you scroll down a bit-there have actually been 2 or 3 threads just this week where posters came back and thanked everyone for telling them to get a food scale-they are now losing. I lose way more consistently once I bought one.

Also... Most of the people who regularly advise this-did it themselves. Many frequent posters on here have done it all before-the good and the bad. That is why they are so adamant on doing things the right way.

What was it the Hair Club for Men guy used to say in those commercials? "Remember, I'm not just the President of the Hair Club for Men. I'm also a member!"

Yeah, I got a food scale way late in my journey. I wish I'd used one sooner. For me, it's way easier than measuring cups/spoons ever were and I've hit my weight goals so much more consistently since getting one.

There have been many threads recently praising the food scale.

Well...I wasn't against weighing, and I knew why I'd stalled. I lost 15lbs. Stopped. Knew I was eating too much and exercising too little. Wanted to be more accurate. Joined MFP, started logging. Lost 12lbs in less than 2 months.

Going to switch to "servings" rather calorie logging when I'm closer to goal weight because that works fine for me for a ~.5-1lb a week loss as long as I'm exercising. Tracking servings (that I weigh) without a calorie log is what I usually do when I'm looking to lose slowly, and it always works down to maintenance.

Switching from using measuring cups/spoons to using a food scale didn't speed up or slow down my weight loss at all BUT before I started using the scale I already knew that people had a tendency to use heaping cups and spoons full so I was very careful to slightly underfill when I was measuring. That being said, I DO think that using a scale versus measuring is beneficial for most people. Also, FWIW, I actually think that weighing food is easier and faster than measuring and I like not constantly having to wash measuring tools since I weigh my food on the same plate I eat from and I would have dirtied that whether I weighed the food or not.

****ETA: The one non-liquid that I do still measure is dried herbs and spices since a) there is NO information on the labels stating how many grams are in a teaspoon of them and b) herbs and spices don't have that many calories in the first place, so it's probably not THAT big of a deal not to weigh them.****

I didn't actually post about my initial difficulty losing weight. I was a lurker for a long time. But when I discovered I wasn't losing as much as I should have been, given my calorie deficit, I took the advice found lurking in the "On no, I've plateaued" threads, and bought a cheap scale. Lo and behold, it turns out that I was consuming anywhere from 200 to 600 additional calories each day over my previous estimates. Weight loss mystery solved. I have been losing an additional 1/4 to 1/2 pound a week since I began weighing my food.

That would be me a few years ago...

it's been a few years, but I remember a couple things were really throwing off my diary...one, I snack on almonds most every day...someone told me that a 1 oz serving of almonds was a good handful...so I was logging 1 ounce of almonds for my handful...turns out my handful is closer to 2 oz, so I was logging 160 calories and eating 320.

another thing was chicken...my package of chicken said 4 oz was a serving...so I figured a chicken breast must be around about 4 ounces...so I was eating a whole chicken breast and logging 120 calories for my 4 oz serving. WRONG...most chicken breasts are closer to 8 ounces raw weight...so again, I was logging 120 calories but eating 240.

there were numerous other issues just like this that effectively erased the calorie deficit I thought I had. I would also add that I never really measured my cooking oils in the beginning and just kind of eyeballed it...turns out I was using a lot more oil than I though I was when sauteing and roasting and the like.

Noreenmarie1234 wrote: »

I see so many forum posts on here where people say things like..

"I am eating 1200-1500 exercising, and nothing" or "I measure using measuring cups, log everything and eat 1200 and have maintained for 6 months, why am I not losing?"... etc

Then the comments are always telling the person that they aren't logging accurately and they are simply eating too many calories. And the advice is to get a scale.

I would like to hear from the people who got this advice and then did it, if they actually saw they were eating more calories than they thought. I am interested to see if this advice actually worked for anyone. I just see so many people saying they are eating so little and not losing, but they never update if they figured out the problem.

So were any of you posters like this and then you found out you were eating too many calories?

Yes. As a matter of fact, it seems to be the theme of the week.