Measuring & Weighing Food

It might sound stupid & I've wanted to ask for some time now, but didn't want to look stupid. I use my measuring cups & spoons for liquids mostly & have been weighing everything else on my scale. Even my Homemade Veg. Beef soup & Pinto's. Am I doing this correctly? I just don't know what would be right for what foods besides the obvious. It can be alittle bit overwhelming & confusing at times. I want to make sure I'm doing this right & calculating my protein right. Up until the past few days I have been satisfied with my meals that I make up & freeze (weight wise between 2-2.5oz sometimes 3oz with the soup & pintos) but the past few days I eat my food & within an 30 mins to an hour I feel like I'm starving. I drink, drink, drink when that happens but it just does not let up, so I'm wondering if I should be upping the amount of my intake per meal. I'm 2.5 months out & just want to do things right. Its hard because my doctor & NUT does not give me a set weight or ounce that I should be eating, I called them & all they said is eat till you feel full, but  I don't feel full like ever unless I've over eaten which I try very hard to not do. Overall I am doing very well & have no complications thus far, thank the Lord, I just get alittle frustrated & constantly wondering if I'm doing this right.

Thanks for taking the time to read this...maybe its just my hormones, I dunno. Lol

That is a really good question.  I remember an answer to this when I was new.  The person explained it really well, probably better than I will.  You might do a search and see if you can find a good explanation.

I was careful to measure my liquids, cottage cheese, yogurt etc.  and beans and things like that I would search online to find sites that would offer beans and things like that per cooked cup.  I would use my scale for cheese, meat, stuff like that. 

More than anything I concentrated on using my cups, except for the obvious like meats, etc which I eat very little if any.

I don't think this helped, but I think you are doing okay.

I think it is great that you're measuring and weighing your foods - it is one of the keys to success.

I use My Fitness Pal, and create my personal recipes for home made food like a soup with beans and veggies.  I weigh the dry ingredients, and use measuring cups for the wet ingredients, then divide the total information by the number of servings and just go from there.

A scale will work for everything, since a good approximation is that a fluid oz of a liquid weighs about 1 oz on the scale.  A cup is 8 fluid oz, so 1 cup of water weighs about 8 oz.  You can find the fluid oz on the label - a quart of milk is 32 fluid oz  - and weighs about 32 oz on your scale.

Finally, I also use measuring cups to make sure I don't cram too much volume of food into my pouch.  If it's over 1/2 - 3/4 of a cup of anything,  I'll regret it later.  I use that as a double check

I hope this helps.

I weigh some of my foods and measure some of my foods, but I always do one or the other based on the serving size on the nutrition label.

For instance, liquids I measure. 1 Cup of skim milk, 1 tsp of oil, 1/4 cup of egg white, etc.

Meats, cheeses, on the other hand, or anything that has gram/oz measurements on the food nutrition label I weigh. So for instance, if I want to have a correct serving of PB2, the nutrition label say is 12 grams (or something like that) or 2 tbsp. For me 12 grams is a more accurate measure, so I do that. Seapoint Farms Dry Roasted Edamame, 1/4 cup or 28 grams....I go with the grams. Same thing for oatmeal or cereal. I do the same for anything that gives me a weight measurement for a serving. But meats I weigh -- 3 ounces. But if my dish is a casserole or chili, I go with a measuring cup serving -- 1/2 to 3/4 cup size. Prepared vegetables I measure 1/4 to 1/2 cup. Rice and couscous I do by the 1/4 cup because the nutrition label doesn't really give "prepared" weights.

I don't know if it's the "right way" or not. I figure as long as I'm consistent and losing weight, I'm doing okay.

Thanks so much for responding. Everything you all said helps. I just want to make sure I'm doing it right. One minute I'm confident that I'm doing it correctly then the next I question myself. Relying on my pouch to tell me when enough is enough is not good enough because I don't feel full. Measurements & weight I can work with. I want to succeed in my journey.