Anyone else doing this by feel rather than weight?

I can see deciding whether one is at goal or not by feel or clothes fit, but I'm not sure how one accomplishes 2 things I think are worthwhile in a calorie-counting context, unless using a bodyweight scale periodically:

1. Knowing one's current loss rate, in order to get insight into whether losing too fast (especially) or slow. From unpleasant personal experience, I know that lack of hunger and good energy level are not sure signs that one is eating enough (i.e., not losing too fast). I felt great until I hit a wall, felt weak and fatigued, then it took weeks to recover. There's some value IMO in knowing loss rate.

2. Assuming one is calorie counting, knowing weight loss rate at X calorie level also allows one to figure out one's TDEE (all day, all source calorie need) or NEAT (all day, all but exercise calorie need). Knowing that makes it super easy to manage weight long term. The number you get from a calculator is only an estimate. It's close for most people, a bit further off for a few (high or low), and quite far off for a rare few. I still calorie count in maintenance. I just spent a year losing 12-13 vanity pounds at an average of a pound a month, which was convenient and pretty much painless. If I didn't know my true calorie needs, I couldn't do that with any reliability. Other people here also use strategies like eating maintenance calories on weekends, deficit on weekdays, because they enjoy doing weight loss that way. To have options like that in your toolkit, figuring out your personalized calorie needs is IMO necessary.

Neither of those things are barriers to weight loss, though. But to me, they're nice advantages of tracking bodyweight. (I wasn't hugely invested, personally, in what final weight I reached - *that* I did by how I felt, fine-tuning as I got close.)

Best wishes!

My concern would be that a comfortable size in one brand might be too small in another.

Using the rationalization I’ve used in the past, I would (and have!!!!) convinced myself I hadn’t put on weight by buying the larger brand in the “same” size.

Walmart is particularly generous with sizes, as is Eddie Bauer and Chico’s. Guess what my closet was full of?

Then there’s vanity sizing. That’s a whole contentious animal I won’t get into here for fear of going down via flamethrowers.