Have you taken your body weight scale or food scale with you when traveling?

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  • neohdiver
    neohdiver Posts: 738 Member
    lightenup2016 wrote: »
    But soon I'll be going out of town (visiting family, not a true vacation) for about 10 or 12 days, and I feel like I'd like to at least have my body weight scale with me.

    Unless you're using your body-weight scale to change your eating habits over that short a period I wouldn't. (My grandmother had a target weight range - when she went out of that range she cut back on what she was eating.)

    I do bring my food scales along anytime I will be preparing meals. When I expect to be eating out, I take pictures and use them to make my best estimate.


  • MelanieCN77
    MelanieCN77 Posts: 4,047 Member
    I might if I was traveling to family, but I'd get some eyebrows if I weighed at a restaurant.
  • LivingtheLeanDream
    LivingtheLeanDream Posts: 13,342 Member
    edited November 2016
    No. I eyeball food portions and forget about weigh ins til my return.
  • ChelzFit
    ChelzFit Posts: 292 Member
    Nope, I feel like I have been maintaining for years so I know my portions. We usually don't travel very long (overnights) unless we are on vacation and I like to just enjoy food on vacation and not worry about calories.
  • jennypapage
    jennypapage Posts: 489 Member
    when i visited my family, i bought a new scale,took it with me,and left it at their house for the next time i need it.when i was on vacation, i didn't because it was impossible to log.i just did a mental calculation then.
  • ahoy_m8
    ahoy_m8 Posts: 3,053 Member
    We rented a house with full kitchen for the family summer vacation. My youngest daughter saw me using measuring cups (seldom use at home, I weigh even liquids) and she asked if I missed my scale. I laughed because I had not even thought about it but I DID miss my scale, since she mentioned it.

    So no, I don't travel with those things, but there is one exception. If I'm going to be cooking for a crowd at our lake cabana (1hr drive away), I do take the food scale because I don't know how I would scale up my regular dishes without thinking of it in terms of weights. My brother's family stayed with us the week of Thanksgiving, so I cooked many meals for 8 or 10 (vs. our usual 5). He and DH were giving me grief about weighing the dry pasta one night. (NOTE: neither of them cook for 10.) They insisted I was making too little, so I cooked 3 extra portions. Guess what? Lots left over.
  • CaladriaNapea
    CaladriaNapea Posts: 140 Member
    I've been thinking about this issue since I'm going to be spending a month away from home over Christmas time (two weeks with the in-laws, two weeks with my family). I'm bringing my bathroom scale to both places, since I know neither family has one that functions and weighing in daily really serves as a huge motivator for me. and over a month your weight can change a lot--I lost twelve pounds last month, I really do not want to undo that change. I am bringing my food scale to my family's house, since I know they won't be offended, but I'm pretty sure it would raise a lot of eyebrows at my in-laws, so I am going to try to eyeball portion control. I am going to try to use the No S Diet, which I recently discovered, in order to try to keep that calorie count down. This is especially difficult because my mother-in-law is a born-and-bred farm cook. She cooks food that is absolutely divine and definitely designed for people who are milking cows or baling hay all day.
  • ShammersPink
    ShammersPink Posts: 215 Member
    No.

    My mum has both - measuring food by weight is the norm for recipes in the UK - so online recipes from the US in cups etc drive me crazy, whether or not I'm dieting! We cook the cakes for family birthdays at mum's house.

    I'll be away at my partner's family for Christmas. I'm sure they have a food scale, but not a digital one like mum and me. I doubt I'll use it for much - maybe for cereal, since they have different cereal to what I have at home, and estimation of an unfamiliar cereal can be hard, It's one meal of the day where I can easily control my own portion without impacting on others.
  • besaro
    besaro Posts: 1,858 Member
    no
  • TonyB0588
    TonyB0588 Posts: 9,520 Member
    Shana67 wrote: »
    I haven't, but this morning after weighing myself, I am thinking about it. It just adds weight to the baggage, dang it. However, bringing my food scale along is a great idea! We will visit the IL in December and my MIL is a *fantastic* cook - I think it will be worth it :)

    Be careful not to offend the MIL, weighing everything she offers you. I'd rather cautiously restrain the portion sizes I put on my plate, if the environment is one where you get to spoon it out yourself. (I've been in family situations in the past where the plate comes with everything on it already.)
  • TonyB0588
    TonyB0588 Posts: 9,520 Member
    lightenup2016 wrote: »
    OP here--thanks for the responses! I am going to my mom's to visit. I think for me, I can fairly easily estimate portions and be okay (did that for two months losing weight before I bought a food scale), but it's the bathroom scale I think I would miss more. I feel like it keeps me in check. I'll probably wind up taking both since they'll pack easily. I have gone for two days without either, but 12 days...I don't know! OTOH, my mom does have a bathroom scale, it's just not a great one.

    Depends on your relationship with your mom. If she's feeding you, she'll wonder why you can't accept what she serves just as you did when you were growing up. If you're doing your own cooking in her house, I think you have a bit more liberty to continue your own regular habits.
  • Gisel2015
    Gisel2015 Posts: 4,186 Member
    No, I totally ignore the scales and most of the time even logging, while on vacation. I am not a foodie nor I have a sweet tooth so portion control and activity is all I need and depend on to keep my weight under control. I have been maintaining for six years so the scales are something that I don't use all the time anymore.

    I never, ever, even thought about taking a food scale to somebody house; I would consider that a border line insult to the host, regardless of my relationship with the person. Besides, what is the purpose of taking a food scale unless you can cook everything yourself from scratch?
  • nxd10
    nxd10 Posts: 4,570 Member
    I don't do it. And I'm a daily weigher and often go overseas for weeks at a time. I do log always when traveling.
  • srecupid
    srecupid Posts: 660 Member
    Nah if I'm traveling i'm likely eating out so it won't really matter if i weigh it. But, I might bring a food scale if it takes up a little room in my backpack
  • lightenup2016
    lightenup2016 Posts: 1,055 Member
    OP here again. Thanks again for your responses. It's interesting to hear everyone's take on this. I would envision myself only using the food scale for snacky things that are difficult to approximate, and easy to keep grabbing more, but even then, being on vacation I would probably be okay just estimating (I purposely overestimate). My mom will have a lot of food already made ahead, so weighing that wouldn't help me much. I do think I'll take the body weight scale, because it's my reality check.
  • kami3006
    kami3006 Posts: 4,979 Member
    ILoveGingerNut wrote: »
    How about learning to practice healthy portions?

    That's the point of using a scale in the first place.
  • MimiOfTheLusciousLawn
    MimiOfTheLusciousLawn Posts: 2,212 Member
    Yes, both!
  • clh72569
    clh72569 Posts: 280 Member
    I don't take my food scale; but I do take my body weight scale. Even though I eat more on vacation, it has helped to to not be shocked when I get back. I know I will be able to get the vacation weight off. I has helped me mentally.
  • clh72569
    clh72569 Posts: 280 Member
    Here is a funny story. I took my body weight scale to a week long family vacation in Vegas. My brother as a joke, started putting quarters on the edges to mess with me. His plan was to add and subtract quarters so I would significantly gain and lose wt while on vacation. I saw through his evil plan and laughed hysterically!
  • Tabbycat00
    Tabbycat00 Posts: 146 Member
    I've had times where I had to travel for work and taken both but I'm a little obsessive.
  • Kait_Dee
    Kait_Dee Posts: 176 Member
    lightenup2016 wrote: »
    Hi--I'm just curious how many people here have done this (or would)? I have been losing weight for 3 months, and I've skipped weighing in for two days at a time here and there. But soon I'll be going out of town (visiting family, not a true vacation) for about 10 or 12 days, and I feel like I'd like to at least have my body weight scale with me. We're traveling by car so it's not really that cumbersome to bring along. Or does that sound silly?

    Yup!! I take my scales with me everywhere I go (both bodyweight and food scale). I'm a traveling consultant and could be on the road anywhere from 2-10 days at a time.

    Some may say that's obsessive or ridiculous, but I've lost over 100lbs and kept it off for almost four years and am now a semi-pro athlete.. So if it is obsessive and ridiculous........ I guess I'm obsessive and ridiculous. ;)
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