Food scale...Do you weigh your portions?

I do weigh my food. I used to guess at things before i purchased my scale and honestly, i was guessing to high as to how much something was, in turn i wasn't eating all of my calories. over my Christmas holiday, i went searching for a good food scale, and the ones i found were ok but some were very costly. i started to look on ebay for some scales and i actually found a great scale and i only paid $20 for it and i love it!! i weigh everything on it!! and it is not just your basic scale, it is also a postal scale. it weighs anything up to 55lbs and it starts weighing at 0.1 of and ounce. it also has a tare feature (it will subtract the weight of the container you are weighing the food in, so that you will only get the real weight of the food).... here is the link to one just like mine. i think it is a huge investment, especially if you like to make sure everything you are doing is right or as close to right as it can be...

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Saga-New-55-lb-x-0-1-oz-Digital-Shipping-Postage-Postal-scale-75-35-W-AC-Weight-/160670265686?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item2568b1b156#ht_2210wt_1396

I weigh everything that isn't pre-packaged.

Measuring in cups is simply not accurate enough, except for liquids and granular things like sugar.

My recommendation is to get a flat digital scale, the sort that you can put a bowl or plate on, then reset to zero. That makes it simple to weigh all the components of a meal, without adding to the washing up.

I don't weigh my portions, I weigh my ingredients if I'm cooking something (like pasta or chicken pie) since then I know exactly what's in my meal, but I don't tend to weigh my portions since a) most things come with recommended portion size (eg half a bag of noodles - 300cal) and sure maybe I take more or less then half the bag, but whenever I next have noodles I have the other half, even if it isn't an exact half the point is I'm eating exactly the same amount over a few days (fresh egg noodles don't store well haha) as I would if I had weighed what I was eating. Like someone else said half a pack of chicken, where there's 10 breasts is going to be 5 breasts, sure some will weigh less whilst others weigh more but on average you're still eating half. I don't eat stuff like cereal, maybe if I did I would weigh, but I just tend to try and end the day with 100-200 exercise calories uneaten so any error I made guessing what I'm eating is (hopefully) countered.
I think if I was having problems loosing weight and it wasn't down to something obvious (such as drastic under eating) then I would begin to weigh what I eat, but for now it doesn't bother me.

I just bought a scale from Walmart for about $8, so far so good. I've been guessing on protein and non-bar code things since I started

Yes, it makes a difference. If you have went all your life without weighing or measuring anything, you will probably be shocked to find out what an actual serving size of a particular food is. I weigh/measure EVERYTHING.

I measure cup or measure spoon almost everything. Just because when I started I used my measuring cups as spoons, so now it's habit. I don't measure veggies. I can eat as much of those as I want. I will weigh meat sometimes just to reinforce my eyeball. If it's some new meat, I will weigh to get a sense of portion size. We buy a huge pork tenderloin and cut it into chops. I will measure one and eyeball the rest.

I don't need to measure my intake and expenditures down to the very calorie. I didn't get fat because two slices of bread was 2.3 servings. I got fat because my toast was dripping with margarine.

I weigh nearly everything.. That food scale was the best $18 I ever spent. Im even going to Walmart next week and getting another one to keep on hand because I rely on my scale for almost every meal.

The battery in my scales just ran out and I am lost without it! So yes, I weigh pretty much everything unless it says on the box

I weigh and measure carbs and proteins, but estimate veggies. I was wayyyyyyy off before I started doing this, by the way. Enough to seriously dent my presumed deficit.

I guess I'm the only one who doesn't, lol. I read the packages and guesstimate. I'm the type who would go completely OCD if I did measure, so I just go with it. Lost 19 lbs., so I guess I'm ok!

Yes, I LOVE my food scale! At this point I am great at eyeballing (eyeballed an ounce of beef jerky, and weighed it at 1.1oz) but I still think it's fun to weigh it.

I weigh/measure everything (pretty much). I hit a plateau and even gained for months back and forth, back and forth. Since I started weighing/measuring, I feel so much more confident. Overestimating had me eating too little calories, underestimating made me gain weight. Now I am losing at a steady rate again. And I am also varying my calorie intake daily.

I use my food scale to weigh everything, and I use measuring cups to measure everything. It absolutely has made a difference!

I weigh things like cheese, meats, and pastas. For veggies and fruit I go by the cup/size depending on the vegetable. I love my food scale.