Calorie Counting Difficulties.

Don't let perfection be the enemy of good. Consistancy over time is much better than worrying about perfection. For things I don't weigh, I estimate something out the database, usually on the higher side. It all works out in the long run.

If time is an issue then you can try meal prepping, or at least prepping the food you eat after work. The fact that you cant always accurately track your food is even more of a reason to weigh what you can. What I mean by this is that by weighing you'll get a pretty good idea of what a 4oz cut of meat looks like, a 200g potato, and so on and so forth, and you can make accurate estimations in the absence of a scale. While this wont be an exact science, having that knowledge and applying it over the long term is beneficial.

I plan.

Most evenings, I usually write down what I am going to eat the next day. For example, I typically eat oatmeal, blueberries, light brown sugar and a banana for a snack. So in the evening I'd write down 45g of oats, 35g of blueberries, etc. Then when the time comes to eat, I already have allotted my calories and meals and there's no guess work. I measure out exactly 45g of oats, 35 g of berries, etc. I've become so consistent that I don't have to look at the app to see what I allotted myself, it's second nature now that I eat 45g of oats.

When I am going out to eat w/ friends, I usually look at the menus of the places where we are going ahead of time and get an idea of what I am going to eat and log that, using estimates. Every now and then there are surprises like a birthday or in my case my husband wants to me try some bread he baked. No big deal, I adjust it in my day. I think planning is a very good tool and eliminates a lot of the "I don't know what to eat."

You're not using a food scale, which is fine if you have a lot of fat to lose. It just gets harder when you have less fat because you have to be more precise. You can still plan ahead though.