Reddit reviews Etekcity Digital Kitchen Food Scale, 0.01oz Resolution, Calibration Supported,15lb/7kg (Silver)

Absolutely. This shit's hard, but it's all doable.

Set your goals, figure out your plan to achievement, but remember that you're going to fail every now and again. This is normal. Just take it one day at a time.

Here's a few more tools I personally needed in my belt before I really began to start gaining serious momentum.

A food scale - The best thing you can do is spreadsheet out your food you eat in a day. Christ, this was so hard for me, but adding up the nutritional information on to-the-gram portions was the ultimate step to weight loss. Is it boring eating the same shit every day? You betcha. But it all feels right when you start to...

Weigh yourself every morning after you piss and log it in a spreadsheet This was like the last piece of the pendant I needed to unlock the giant door of "Discipline". Holy fuck, I cannot understate how important this was for me. Being able to look at where you were yesterday, or 14 days ago, and see with actual fact where you were... Eating the same shit every day strictly for nutrition all of a sudden became okay to me. I suffer from massive depression, and food was my big comfort. But seeing this data just greased the cogs and the machine began to move with a speed I couldn't manage in the year prior.

On the plus side, my entire diet is available at Costco. So even though it takes time to wash pounds of chicken, weigh it out to 300g (+/- 10g) and bag it up, I'm saving a ton of money in the process. Chicken there is $2.99/lb, at Safeway it's $7.29/lb. I still buy my broccoli there, though, because $2.49/lb is totally acceptable given the taste. Cutting up crowns of broccoli and steaming them is infinitely more tasty than the pre-cut florette bags.

Good luck, man. I wholeheartedly mean it. It's tough going, but if you are absolutely fed up with the current state of your body and lifestyle, the progress means so much.

You're not alone -- you have a whole community here focused on achieving the same thing as you (and supporting + encouraging you on your own progress). No matter how many tries you're on, the goal is to keep on truckin'. You're here and you're posting, so that's a step in the right direction.

I'll break down the major points I'd like to mention below:

• FAQ: If you haven't, honestly take some time to get educated by reading the FAQ. This will give you an arsenal of knowledge on most of the things you may have questions about. It's a gem of a resource. As the FAQ reiterates, getting your diet under your control is the single most important aspect to any sort of enduring weight loss. That control comes through honest and regular monitoring of your caloric intake. Remember, after all the babble is wiped away, weight loss reduces to calories burnt > calories consumed. If you consume fewer calories than your body burns, it will begin to use your bodyfat to make up the difference.
  
  
• MY FITNESS PAL: MyFitnessPal is the app you need for accurate accounting of your calories. A huge temptation in the app is to only log when you're on-point, but that's a mistake. Get honest with yourself and stay honest with your tracking. It'll quickly become your go-to ally in the battle of the bulge.
  
  
• FOOD SCALE: Another important piece of calorie counting is knowing how much of everything you're eating. When you're cooking at home, that's best achieved by measuring your food and using a food scale to weigh stuff. Here's a great scale for sale on Amazon at less than $10 (with coupon code 32522OFF). At such a cheap price point, there's no reason not to have one of these in your kitchen.
  
  
• COOKING: Regarding food, cooking for yourself is not as intimidating as it may appear to you right now. As /u/zeke3elevn recommended, chicken and whole grain rice are great allies in your fight against the bulge. Also freshly steamed green veggies -- broccoli, green beans, spinach, etc. are all fairly cheap and very simple to cook. Most are in their own steam-fresh bags that only require a few minutes in the microwave to be cooked & ready to eat.
  
  You can also head over to /r/fixmydiet for more advice about what to eat.

Plenty of decent scale options in the $10 range. Here's what I use:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00FGI2E78

$13 bucks. Prime.

Too many variables when using volumetric measuring. Once you get a scale, do a couple of tests and you'll see what we're saying. :)

This one looks pretty damn good, good reviews and all

I think I already have the postage coming. It's part of the starter kit I'm pretty sure.

lol I was thinking about getting one too. http://www.amazon.com/Etekcity%C2%AE-Accuracy-Multifunction-Precision-Functions/dp/B00FGI2E78?t=slickdeals&tag=slickdeals&ascsubtag=cfd84887050849dcb140b6b32cfbb417 This one seems good, 5 stars on amazon.

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