Way back when I was working at losing, I measured everything. Now I eyeball it. The results on the bathroom scale are what I follow carefully.

I think portion size was a big part of how I got fat in the first place. I try to be mindful of that now, in maintenance. I rarely have seconds (I used to have thirds). I make use of the smaller plate trick, too. Eating on an 8-inch plate doesn't allow me to pile up too much food.

I try to Buy items that are pre-measured (like turkey meat for sandwiches which come 16 slices in a pound package). If not I measure them (scale or volume) most of the time. Then I guessimate the size.

I always weigh & measure at home buy still at times eat more portions than I should. At a restaurant I eye ball but always put pt. values to my meal.

10 years in, I still weigh and messure. Quit counting points but I got no IM as to portions. I think the dirty little WW secret is we are all going to the SF food list to get enough to eat as points dwindle. I sure have.

But the part where I'm supposed to know when I've eaten enough, I haven't gotten there. So my portion control takes place when I fill the plate, not when I empty it.

I still use the hand estimation tools (tablespoon=thumb, palm=3oz). If I feel like I'm not making progress then I go back to more exact measurements but I try to do habits during weight loss that I'm going to carry into maintenance

I weigh or measure most (pointy) things if I can. If I can't, I don't worry about it. I just give it a fair estimate (probably conservative if anything) and call it good. The fact that I'm even thinking of a fraction of the whole is far more attention than I ever used to do pre-WW. ( @60in2017 , I know what you mean about boxes / pints / etc. !)

An interesting aspect of this is that I usually really don't desire to eat as much as I used to. Now, that amount of food is so much more than I need to satisfy my 'hunger'. Rarely now do I eat without paying attention to that whereas prior to WW, never did that awareness enter the equation.

Today's portion has no distortion--most of the time!

I've been eyeballing a lot recently, but when it comes to a heavy calorie item I try to weigh it. I love take out Chinese and it is mandatory that I weight the beef fried rice because I could eat the whole container and then some.

Nice Mitch so maybe we should be having an archipelago breakfast of little islands and not "continental" breakfast of "all you can eat and plate".

Yes, portion was an issue for me and the main reason for gaining along with over all volume consumed, in other words I may not have too much of one thing, but I may have too many normal portions of a variety of things.

I am good with portion control now because I weigh most things, but prior to weighing I estimate how much do I think it is, to sharpen my "eyeball it" skills. I am pretty good at hitting the number and often my mistake is thinking it is more than it really weighs.

Where I have difficulty with portion is when I don't weigh but use a measuring spoon or cup, I find I heap the spoon or cup when it comes to things I enjoy. But I only count it as (1) tsp or (1) cup...knowing full well it probably was more. Part of why I measure by weighing is the accuracy and the ability to maximize my portion for the same points. It keeps the guilty feelings away, because I'm not playing a game. Ironically when I do weigh a cup or spoon full of something (even when I do my heaping version) often it is not more points, but the fact that I am in the unknown is what causes me to feel like I did something wrong.

Sorry if this is a bit convoluted