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The winter holidays have an uncanny knack for ruining diets. Either you “forget” about your diet from Thanksgiving to New Years Day, or you simply put off starting a diet until you commit to one with a New Year’s resolution. And who can blame you? No one wants to spend the winter holidays, which are notorious for their sweets, treats, and delicious eats, skipping sugar or counting carbohydrates.

This year, you don’t have to choose between your diet and enjoying all of the delightful foods the winter holidays have to offer! Resisting the multitude of holiday treats may be next to impossible, but you can manage how much you eat. By simply controlling your portion size, you can keep your diet in check and maybe even avoid having to make that dreaded New Year’s Resolution after all.

With a simple kitchen portion scale, you can at least control how much of the holiday indulgences you eat. While you won’t be toting your kitchen scale to the company Christmas party or Grandma’s house, you can use your kitchen scale at home to train your eyes to regulate the size of the portions you serve yourself. With a little practice using your kitchen scale, you be able to estimate more conservative and diet friendly portion sizes when you are eating somewhere other than your own home.

Selecting a kitchen scale is not difficult. There are many nice and affordable scales on the market today. You may choose a basic model like the Weighmax W-2810 Kitchen Bowl Scale for under thirty dollars; or you can select a top of the line model, such as the Seca 852 Digital Diet Scale, for around eighty dollars. My Weigh, a scale manufacturer, makes a talking scale which announces the weight of your portion as you are weighing items. This is the perfect unit for someone with poor eyesight and can be purchased for less than forty dollars. Another interesting kitchen scale option is the My Weigh iScale Electronic Kitchen Scale. This scale has a high resolution display that shows full animations while weighing.

Don’t be reluctant to purchase a kitchen scale because you fear it will be difficult to use. The kitchen scales available to today’s consumer are very user friendly. Most of the scales available today have a digital display, making them very easy to read. Also, many scales will measure in both metric and standard units (pounds/ounces and grams, etc.). Some kitchen scales come with their own easy to wash weighing containers. Other kitchen scales include useful features such as a backlit display, cumulative weighing mode (for obtaining the weight of a combination of different ingredients), percentage weighing mode (allowing you to easily weigh the ingredients you add in proportion to their main ingredient), or removable faceplate shields to protect your scale.

Make the smart investment of purchasing a personal kitchen scale and you will be well on your road to enjoying your holiday meals without the guilt!