badjay posted...
Takes no more than a minute honestly to weigh your stuff and have an accurate count. But if you don't have time for it, you don't have time for it. Just like all the people who go to work and don't have time to exercise either.
You can come up with the excuses, but counting your calories correctly and not "estimating" makes a big difference. At least personally for me. I used to go have 10 nuggets and that was "2 servings" because 1 serving (50g or whatever) was 5 nuggets, but when I weighed it out I was actually eating 3 servings (150 g in 5 nuggets apparently) or worse I was having 1.5 servings of nuggets (75g in 5 nuggets). So I'm either eating more than I thought, or eating less and calculating over while still feeling hungry. Regardless in the long term goal of not starving thinking you ate 400 calories but you actually ate 300 can make a big difference in your attitude. And in the long term goal thinking you ate 400 calories while actually eating 500-600 calories can have terrible consequences on your mental fortitude. "You start thinking I'm dieting but I'm not losing weight, dieting doesn't work for me! Calories in calories out WAS A LIE!" Well...you counted wrong. And a lot of people do. I certainly did, this is why I tell people to weigh their food because the suggested amounts can be off drastically in either direction. But hey, I get the same reply like you do often so I just shrug. Just trying to help with real advice that works.
Serving sizes are a scam. They're claimed to be for what the average person eats but the average person eats far more than what is on the package. Like take a thing of Ben and Jerry's. It is claimed to be 3 servings when most people would eat the entire thing in one sitting due to how small it is.