Recommend a portable mini scales for calorie counting?

FrankGrimes

I've recently started a change in my food lifestyle (not calling it a diet as that feels temporary!) as I'm moving from being a serious leisure cyclist to competing as a racing cyclist and need to lose 10kg from where I was (95kg to 85kg, have dropped about 2-2.5kg in the first 2 weeks) over 4-months (major event in May).

I was initially thinking there's no way I could be disciplined enough to calorie count but I'm now thinking that I may be overdoing it on the holding back on calorie intake. I think my apetite has retracted hugely and I'm actually having to consciously tell myself to eat during the day, which is a big change (I get ravernous in the evenings though so am trying to line up healthy snacks for that).

I have now accepted that in order to accurately manage to a 250-500 daily calorie deficit, particularly with the increase in exercise, I need to count calories to avoid leaving too large a calorie deficit.

Is there a portable mini weighing scales (I'm guessing digital is best?) that people would recommend for calorie counting? I need to weigh the food I generally eat in work, add it to my MyFitnessPal list and then I can just reuse that in the future.

For a salad consisting of tuna, chickpeas, kidney beans, beetroot, sweetcorn, lettuce, seeds, do people really go to the hassle of weighing out each item separately or just do a ballpark?

I'd appreciate any tips on a scales or other ways to go about getting setup for calorie counting in a manner that makes it less of a headache after that initial setup period.

I'll be using a power meter on the bike with data recorded on my Garmin Edge 705 to estimate calories consumed on the bike and adding the data files to my TrainingPeaks.com account to both analyse my performance but also to get accurate calorie consumption figures and then adding this to MyFitnessPal.