How to Weigh Your Food

When people are tracking their calories, it is often the idea of weighing everything you eat that people have an objection to. It seems like a lot of effort, a lot of faffing, and a bit obsessive!

But the actual process of weighing your food is much simpler than people imagine.

Once I have explained how to do it more efficiently – it will become a much easier thing for you to get used to.

So firstly – most things we eat nowadays come in a packet. On that packet it will tell you how much an item weighs.

So let’s say that is a packet of chicken breasts. You might think awkward to weigh – they’re slimy, people are scared of raw chicken and the bacteria on it, you get the point.

Rather than taking the amount of chicken you are having, putting it on a separate plate or in a bowl to weigh it and making that dirty, and rather than putting the raw chicken on the scales

you can either – put the chopping board, on the scale, and then put the chicken on top. The chicken was going on it anyway, it takes about 1 second more effort…

Even easier than that – put the pack of chicken on the scales, set it to zero, then remove the amount you are using and put it wherever you would put it normally!

Then on the scale it will show you a negative number like – 250g, so you know you have had 250g of chicken.

If your scale doesn’t have that capacity, then you may require a bit of maths, but you can do the same.

Set the scales to 0, put the whole pack of chicken on top, say it weighs 750g, you take your portion out, 600g are left, you know you have 150g of chicken. Boom simple done.

It doesn’t have to become this awkward entire other process that involves 3 other plates. You just need some scales.

Another example – let’s say you are cooking rice or pasta. Most people weigh out or measure out portions of these things in cups anyway – just put the mug on the scales when you are doing so.

0 the scales beforehand it will tell you the amount in the cup. Simple.


What about vegetables? Just put them on the scale first before you cut them up.
Or put whatever you’re cooking them in like the pan on top of the scales, and as you put them in, make note of the amount.

What about condiments? Or things like butter? The same concept as weighing the chicken packet. Weigh the packet first, use your amount, check the weight again, the difference is how much you had.

Or – put your plate on the scales and put it on there and weigh it that way.

I completely understand people’s apprehension, and how they think it can be hard work.

But like with everything else, once it becomes a habit it is a lot easier than you would have imagine.

And the result of putting in the time to weight everything out – guarantees you will make progress!