... The food scale that is, I'm not quite loving the bathroom scale yet.
as you can see mine has been well used and could stand a bit of cleaning love... So I've been weighing and measuring my food and it's a huge help to really be in control and avoid buying higher priced, convienece portion controlled foods.
My tip, use the scale. I have a scale with a tare function and grams and oz. I paid $10 or $20 for it. I forget.
Instead of using measuring cups and spoons, I weigh most everything, it's much easier and no extra dishes to wash. For example, building a salad, looking at portion sizes, (most items are listed in grams), I start with a zeroed out scale with a bowl on it. Add the lettuce, log the amount, hit the tare button, add each veggie, topping, and dressing doing this after each. It's easy to get half a serving, or see exactly how much a serving is. No oily TBLSP spoon to wash. sometimes I don't weigh the veggies, since they're so low cal and easy to just count, but definitly the dressing and other toppings. I also weigh chips, fruit, Mayo or pb on my bread, shredded cheese, cereal and milk. I love not having to wash a bunch of measuring tools, especially pb and mayo, you cantvget all the pb off the spoon!
It's so easy, I have no reason not to. It's not more work to sprinkle raisin bran into a bowl on top of a scale than it is to pour the cereal blindly into the bowl on the counter. Then drizzle in the right amount of grams of milk, grab a spoon and go.
Some things aren't easy to measure using cups and spoons. Are you supposed to smash the shredded cheese into the 1/4 cup? Or measure loosely? And then you have to un-squish it to sprinkle on your quesadilla, I just shred it directly onto the tortilla on the scale. Easy peasy.
No serving up dinner with a measuring cup, just use the same serving spoon you use to stir it while it was cooking. Just put the plate on the scale and scoop away.
The scale is a great time saver, I used to count out the 14 potato chips into a serving and who knows how many broken ones I had to estimate and how annoying that was.
I've found that some things in the fatsecret.com food log don't give the option to enter by oz or gram, for them, I check serving sizes to figure it out or just count out or grab a spoon or cup for it.
Dishing my plate on top of the scale is a habit I can keep forever. I am sure I will get pretty good at eye-balling portion sizes, but it's so easy, I'll stick with it for awhile.
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