Quote Originally Posted by Susan Otcenas View Post
Even after 3+ years of WW, I still use my food scale. Because, I find that when I get away from it for a while, portion size creeps. Now that I'm back on, I have two scales. One on my countertop at home, and one on the countertop at work. Everything gets weighed. Today I had a spinach salad for lunch, with 2 ounces of sauteed chicken. Not 1.5 ounces, or 3.2 ounces or whatever my brain thinks LOOKS likes 2 ounces, but 2-point-0 real ounces.

WW's points tracker will let you track a "medium" sweet potato, but really, do YOU know what that means? I sure don't. But when I weigh it and get 250 grams, I can put exactly that into the tracker and get an accurate point value for it. Then I know I stay on track.

Some people really rebel against the whole weighing and measuring thing, but I like it. It's very black and white. Concrete. No excuses. :-)
I weigh and measure just about everything too. However, I am really good at guessing a half an ounce of walnuts because I have that every day and an ounce of cheese. Other things, like meat, not so much. I can be way off even after a year of weighing.

Catrin, I have this scale: http://www.amazon.com/EatSmart-Preci...6317442&sr=1-1

I like it because it is small, you can weigh in a number of different units, like ounces or grams, and you can put a bowl or something on it, zero it out, and then add stuff you want to weigh.