There are two kinds of food

The first kind is pre-portioned. A protein bar, a premade burger patty, sliced cheese. This first kind is a known quantity, and it's easy to log. After six years, I still log my food.

The second kind of food I portion out myself. I weigh it on my kitchen scale. That way, I know how much I'm eating, and what to log.

Except today, my kitchen scale died. So I had to eyeball my lunch portion of chicken. Ive weighed out similar portions literally a few thousand times.

Does anyone know what formerly morbidly obese people do when they eyeball portions? They take too much. Then they eat too much. I'm not sure it's possible to go under the guesstimated amount. Its always more. Because more is better, right? Any three year old will confirm that.

So, while I sit here feeling like crap from overeating, i ordered another $10.99 scale on Amazon. The broken scale was my second one, and the first one died after about three years as well.

I don't think any of us stop being morbidly obese, in our heads.

I actually ordered a second scale for work because I had the same problem. I try to weigh, pack, and log the night before and I found I the food I prepared at work was always over... So, now I have a scale in both places and when I go in vacation I take my home scale with me. thanks for the post, I don't feel like I'm crazy doing this now.

Liz

I panicked last night when I went to weigh my dinner, my scale wouldn't zero out. Either time for a new scale or time for new batteries. I purposefully undercut my serving because of fear of portion creep.

The last few bites. Sometimes it is even one. When I know I should stop but I really want the last bite. Or 2.

20 min later - the pain starts and lasts. And I know it was all my doing -eating.

Man, I remember that... So glad I finally started weighing everything I eat if it's not prepackaged. Makes life so much better. Every once in a while I'll skip it and 9/10 it's not worth it.

I find I have to be extra careful when eating out. I give myself a super tiny amount, eat it and wait for a few minutes then start over. If at anytime I start feeling full I stop and have it packed to go. And I swear to #$* if someone says to me "Is that all you ate? Are you sure you don't want more/dessert/bread?" I might go bat crap crazy on them...

Liz

I weigh except when out to eat as well (and I'm sure I don't estimate properly then but I'm not comfortable hauling a portable scale around). I agree that many of us are very poor at eyeballing portions. I have the same food scale in Mass and Florida.

I've known people that bring a small food scale to restaurants. I applaud them, but I was never going to take that step. I eat out once every couple of weeks, maybe, so I don't consider it a big deal.

Great observation Grim, thank you for sharing

I am almost five years out, and I STILL look at unweighed food and think "that is not nearly enough!"...and then the chances are pretty high that I eat it all, I get the foamies, and that slime coming up over and over is just too painful so I will vomit. Seriously. I wonder if my mind will ever adjust. I fear I will be 90 years old and morbidly obese in my head. Though I wouldn't have been alive at 90 without RNY, so I have something to be seriously grateful for - my health!

This is not at all what I was expecting from you, Grimm. I was thinking I'd see the two kinds broken down into:

1. Food
   
   
2. What my food eats