An advent of ideas 8 - measuring

[GoogleMe]

Weighing and measuring... I suspect that for most people who need to lose weight there's no way round this one initially. I use MyFitnessPal for calorific values but because I eat fairly varied meals which are often made by someone else rather than by me or ready-made with labels it remains relatively cumbersome to keep up... and I am not always entirely confident about its accuracy. But it is better than letting my eyes and my stomach lie to me constantly.

[GoogleMe]

I agree with the idea that measuring can be stifling. However, most people who weigh more than they are comfortable with have got that way through a failure of the mechanisms which a physiological course of breastfeeding would have given them. What is 'too much'? You can try to fit yourself into some particular regime for balance (massive disagreements about what that should be). Unless you go the 'forbidden foods' route instead then measuring can help get you started on recalibrating. Right now I am luxuriating in not measuring but in the New Year I'll be checking again to ensure my guesstimates are not shifting in an unhelpful direction again.