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Accurate Logging - Lesson Learned

bananabeannn
bananabeannn Posts: 110 Member
edited November 2024 in Health and Weight Loss
So, I learned an interesting lesson today by logging all my food - everything - accurately. Traditionally I would log on days when I was trying to be "good"; as soon as I thought I messed up a bite or two, I was like eff it, I'm not recording today. Seeing high numbers on my calorie total made me feel terrible.

Well today i was pretty hungry and stopped at the grocery store to buy some food to have dinner with my bf when he gets here in an hour or so. It's tacos with a salad and i picked up some dorito-like chips too (they were avocado flavored and thought they would be a nice little touch). SO anyway, I was like I need to have ONE chip, which turned into several and several more. This was in the car, as I had the food on me and had to wait for an appointment. I was legitimately hungry. Anyway. Not ideal. I started to get into 'binge' mode.

ANyway so I brought the chips home, emptied them out onto my food scale and saw that oh. I'd had about 3 servings of chips. About 400 calories. Oh. well that's not so terrible. So I'm at 1300 calories so far today, and I still need to eat dinner, but now that I had 3 servings of chips, I'm actually not too hungry. So I can keep dinner light. Oh wait and I had some watermelon too which came out to 120 calories.

It's just fine, right. Even if I end up around 1700, no worse for wear. So the moral of this post is that for me, by logging what I didn't want to be aware of, I learned that hey it wasn't so bad after all!

With that, thanks to everybody who opens their diary and shares what they eat and the weight they've lost. If I see that YOU have lost 25 pounds and every now and then you eat 1700 calories, I stop freaking out about the days I eat 1700 calories. It's helping a lot, especially for somebody who has dieted and messed with food so much I don't know what's "normal" anymore.

!!

BB

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  • sodakat
    sodakat Posts: 1,126 Member
    Nice post! I mess up a lot but always try to log it too. It does help me say "stop" most times.

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  • queenliz99
    queenliz99 Posts: 15,317 Member
    Awesome!!
  • ana3067
    ana3067 Posts: 5,623 Member
    Well I eat over 1700 calories daily and still have lost weight, so definitely it's okay to eat plenty of food to lose! BUt good on you for being honest with yourself. I had a spontaneous dinner tonight, no phone so couldn't Google nutrition info (plus that'd be a bit weird around friends/classmates) and yeah, I'm OVER my goal by at least 200 calories (had to estimate my alcoholic drink, might even be more than 200). But I'm still within maintenance, so who cares?
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