Saturday’s Weight Watcher meeting focused on being aware of portion sizes. And, well, let’s face it, if you’re on a weight loss journey having a food scale in your backpack is as essential as a compass! You may lose your way without it. I credit a lot of my weight loss success to my kitchen scale, measuring cups, and spoons. So, here are three tips that you may find helpful…

1. Keep a kitchen scale visible make it easy to do this.
2. If you don’t want to spend the extra money on single servings, weigh out servings in grams and store them in snack bags. Sometimes I will put the snack bags inside the original box or bag so I can scan foods into my app more easily.
3. Try not to weigh and measure portions when you’re very hungry. Feeling hungry adds a level of stress that you just don’t need.

Is there anything special about being able to drop a perfect 28-gram serving of tortilla chips on a food scale? That is for you to decide. I can only tell you, that when that happens to me, I feel like I’m figuring out how to eat what I want and still lose weight. That feels like a win to me.