Weighing food....your thoughts??

I weigh/measure everything out as much as I can. I rather be more accurate w/ my calories then to guess. I love my food scale, the battery is about to die on me so I need to find a battery for it.

Weigh and measure everything......then record it along with your exercise in your journal. :-) Best wishes to you on your fitness journey!

I weigh any type of meat or poultry so that I don't overestimate. I also weigh things like nuts if nutrition information is provided by weight instead of cup or tablespoon.

I don't weigh fruit. With the apple, keep in mind that you won't eat the core so that should be subtracted from the weight.

i weigh everything that i eat at home.

This.....lot more accurate than measuring cups even

I don't. Simply for the reason that I don't want to be weighing my food for the rest of my life and I am trying to form eating habits that I can maintain.

Occasionally I will double check what I am eye balling.

Whenever I'm being serious about keeping track, I weigh or measure everything. Right now, I have only an analog scale, so it's not as precise as some others.

For people who say that weighing is unnecessary: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVjWPclrWVY&list=FLLcqrR46RLDUQnCFE3oQFrw&index=1&feature=plpp_video

This is a terrible example as both peanut butter and oats are extremely calorie dense and probs not a good idea in any case for weight loss... If she was only a quarter cup over on broccoli for example there would only be a difference of 5 cals.

Actually, your response is fairly thoughtless. Maybe if she ate only broccoli and lettuce all day long, a food scale wouldn't make a difference. But is a person going to eat broccoli (and only calorie sparse foods) all day long? Or do most people likely eat a mix of calorie "dense" and calorie sparse foods daily? For example, a typical daily diet might include oatmeal (or other CD cereal), peanut butter, margarine, meat or chicken, rice or potato, and so on. Adding up the daily underestimation of all these foods would certainly make a difference in one's diet.

I weigh everything when I'm at home (habit from WW) to the point that my grandson wants to weigh his food...also I have found that with some of the routine foods that I eat, I am much better at eyeballing.... so for me it has really helped.

Yep, weigh nearly everything when I home. I'm always surprised at how far off I am when I try to guess the weight of a portion! :noway:

Yes, weighing is more accurate! And once you do it, you'll get really good at just looking at your favorite foods and knowing how many ounces without weighing it which comes in handy when you are not at home!

I want to get one too ! i do weight watchers and my fitness pal , how do you like yours ?:drinker:

I have a WW scale and LOVE it!!! Very well worth the $$!!! :happy: I weight most everything except my fruit. I don't know anyone who got fat eating too many apples or eating too much salad...

Have never weighed my food and/or ingredients, and never will. I just go by eye, or by my stomach. Shows weighing food isn't essential, but some people may find it useful.

I weigh everytyihg as well, it is so much faster to just weigh out a half cup instead of getting the measuring spoons out. It is a MUST

I weigh everything, because everything I put in my mouth counts. Even if it's 7g of coconut oil...tiny amount, it gets weighed.

I weigh my drinks as well, as I do not trust measuring cups. It's so easy to weigh, second nature since I've been doing it for over a year and a half. .

I think it'd really help a lot of people who can't seem to figure out why they aren't losing as quickly as they'd like

I weigh meat, fruit, and chips or whatever else that can't fit into measuring cups or I'm unsure. I use also use measuring cups and spoons. I love my food scale though.