Measure cup or weigh servings?

Wanted to get everyone's advise/opinion on if you measure cup or weigh with Kitchen scale all your portions?? The nut told me to use measuring cup for my food.  The doctor mentioned use a kitchen scale.  I tend to like the kitchen scale myself. Conflicting information.

I hate eye balling as this tends to get me in trouble lol  to much food on my plate and also my eyes get bigger than my tummy....... wasted food - plus the dog shouldn't be always eating my left over food!!

At this stage of the game I would use the measuring cup. It's more about volume at this point. I might have been able to eat 1/4 cup of something that I never could have managed 2 ounces of at that time. And a 1/4 cup of chicken will not be the same as 2oz weighed.

After some time passed I was able to start using the scale.

I use the cups for liquids and the scale for solids.  

Buy small plates that has helped me. I use a scale to weigh my food. I know when I try to eyeball it. I go back to old bad habits. 

When I was very early out I actually bought a whole bunch of 1/2 cup containers (from Glad I think).  I used them for both storage and eating out of.  I use them a lot for things like chili, cooked veggies, meat, pudding, etc. for portion control.  And as an added bonus, you get that optical affect of eating from a smaller di**** is jam packed with food :)

The only downside is that I had so many in the freezer we sometimes have an avalanche of containers when we try to dig in there!!

Meg~

You want to measure the volume of food using measuring cups.  Weight doesn't directly matter.

When I eat things like lasagna (zuchinni for noodles) or chili or beef stew or  cooked vegetables, I use a measuring cup.  When I eat meat, cheese or solids I use the scale.  I kinda guess when it comes to fruit--2 apple slices equal 1/4 apple, small fruit equal one, and large fruit equals 2 servings.  I can't eat 2 servings of fruit yet, so I usually cut the fruit in half.

My plan had meats by weight and pretty much everything else by volume. Fruit which is a rarity for me is a small piece or a certain number like grapes. Most importantly is that you do measure.

It's way to easy to cheat measuring cups. You can convert any volume measurement to a weight. It's about accuracy. I even weigh my fluids. You would be surprised how much variance there is between measuring cups. They are highly inaccurate devices, plus you will likely start to heap more into the measuring cup as you get further from surgery. If you like the kitchen scale, use it. There is no good reason to switch.

You guys rock, thank you as I knew you would have great advise for me. I'll stick to my kitchen scale for my meals xoxox