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I see that they mostly rely on the "plate method", which is pretty good for the average Joe and Jane (and in fact what we're told to teach to patients), but like I said: if you are serious about the gym and about weightlifting, eating healthy by general population standards is not going to cut it. As you say, these rations have to be altered, although I would say that "slightly" is a bit of an understatement.
It's what happened to me when I was a teen and I first joined the gym, running around and doing the whole machine circuit with my friends. I kept wondering why I didn't feel my body getting any more in shape, and it wasn't until many years later and when I started counting calories and macros that I discovered that I was only getting around 50g of protein a day: good enough for the average adult but by far not enough for a weightlifter. I go by 160g a day now, which is a lot more.
I live in an area where people have enough of an overall good diet to be reflected positively in the life expentancy statistics, so it is somewhat more uncommon to see people who eat in an enough of an unhealthy way to have to be taught the plate method. That is why I did not give it as much importance as you may have.
Of course, measuring everything with a pen and a notebook every day would be a self-inflicted torture, which is why almost everyone who counts calories does so with a tracking app such as MyFitnessPal. It's pretty easy to use since you can get whatever food you are eating just by scanning the barcode in the package (although it also registers generic foods) and you just have to set the weight of your dose. As for the measuring part, I have become accustomed to simply put a scale under the plate as I am serving myself food and take note of how much of every ingredient there is.