Have your food scales impacted your weight loss?

There are zero drawbacks. The benefit is you have an accurate caloric count and can eat the right amount of calories. Miscounting calories can add up very quickly.

It was a huge eye opener to real portion sizes of food, I was in complete denial before. I love my scale I don't think it's a hassle at all! I've never had to lose weight before and I don't have much to lose so the scale keeps me on track and makes it so much easier!

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For me, it's been just like trying to introduce any new beneficial habit into my life- annoying and a hassle at first, but second-nature after a while, and super helpful in the long run.

It was sobering seeing a real peanut butter serving size, and downright sad seeing an actual serving of cereal. It's helped me cut hundreds, if not thousands of excess calories that I had just been eyeballing. It's given me control of how much I put in my mouth, and I've gained power and lost weight because of it.

Congrats on your purchase, and excited for you to make it a part of your daily logging!

This. It's weird to weigh food in the beginning, but you'll quickly get the hang of it and it will take no time at all. It's what got me losing weight. I'm pretty much trying to maintain my weight now and I still use it. It's that easy that I'm ok with continuing.

It's such a habit now for me that I barely notice anymore. I keep the scale in front of me as I prepare food and a lot of the time have my bowl or plate on it as I add things and tare and add and tare.

It helped me learn true servings and only a couple things were really disappointing - like cereal and pasta lol. Most things I was happy to find I could actually eat more than I thought.

The biggest thing right now is knowing I really only need 1 sometimes up to 2 servings of a bottled sauce (like general tso or satay, etc) to flavor my dish. I've always been a dump cook (even baking) so it was horrifying to realize how many unnecessary calories I was taking in for no difference in flavor. It's really helping me with avoiding high calorie take-out but still getting to enjoy something just as good but healthier at home.

I love my food scales

Best thing to do when you want to lose weight and truly be accurate, second thing is to actually read labels and know serving sizes. How much food most people eat is crazy, serving sizes are much smaller than we realize. You will quickly get the hang of it. I will often set a measuring cup or a light bowl on my scale before turning it on soI don't have to subtract the weight of it from what the actual food.

The only drawback is searching for the CORRECT entry in MFP, but this is only at first. I had to go to the USDA web site to verify a lot of foods at first, and it's somewhat time consuming. But the good thing is once they are in your own diary (and if you're like me in that you eat many of the same things) they're there. So the time consumption is only at first. Once you get used to it, it's second nature and takes no time at all. And YES, it DEFINITELY makes a difference.

The drawback for me is I'm actually eating more calories so my weightloss has slowed haha.
I was overestimating prior to buying my scale, so I was actually eating less than 1200 if I recorded 1200. Now I'm really eating 1200 so less of a deficit.

I love my scale. It helps both ways: sometimes I would underestimate how much food I could have - so it wasn't always a problem of "over eating" but now it's like "YAY, I can have more than I thought!"

It really is necessary. Nut butters and nuts are really calorie dense, and eating more then you think you are can really slow down your weight loss. It's not annoying to me. It's no more difficult than having to pull out measuring cups and spoons. I actually find it easier b/c this way I can just sit my tupperware on the scale and place things right into it which means less dirty dishes.

It's also helps me eyeball things when I'm out at restaurants where using a scale isn't feasible. You will greatly appreciate the scale.

I don't post or comment very often, but I do read here a lot. My weight loss had stalled a bit, and the one thing I wasn't doing was using a food scale. I got one and realized that I was eating more than I thought. One example is some crackers that I like. The box said 9 crackers was a serving, but when I actually weighed them out for the recommended grams, 9 crackers was several grams over the serving size. It was more like 7 crackers. It doesn't seem like much, but it adds up. Since I've started using a food scale, the weight has started coming off again.

My food scale was one of my best purchases! Way easier to use than measuring cups and spoons and so many less dishes to wash! So much more accurate too! I can totally tell on my bathroom scale when I have been slacking on using my food scale! There's just no way to be accurate without one.

When I first started losing weight, I had a good 30-40 pounds to lose and I lost without one. Pretty soon I had to get one because my calories in were just not accurate enough to be losing consistently. I found the switch to be very easy as I was dirtying less measuring cups. If I want to cook my dinner in a skillet, I literally put the pan on the scale and start adding ingredients, using the tare option to set it back to zero in between. Very easy.

A very rude awakening when I got a food scale. My guesstimates of what I thought was a portion, in particular for things like cereals, rice or pasta was often quadruple of what it should have been. LOL

I just bought one last night at Walmart. $15. I have lost weight without one, but this time around I was just curious. Like yesterday I logged half an avocado as 150 cals, but I'm dying to know what it really is. I'll weigh the other half today.