Pre-logging?

Jaxxie1181

Dinner is the one meal I tend to accidentally over-indulge with, so I will usually pre-log my food, and portions, in the morning and stick to it.

PaulaWallaDingDong

I love pre-logging. Without it, I can be pretty impulsive.

spzjlb

I also prelog the night before. I sometimes change completely what I eat but the prelogging is a fantastic guide and keeps me accountable.

89Madeline

Yes, it definitely helps in planning. I usually log my breakfast (it's the same every day), lunch and snacks. Pretty much my food intake between 9.00-17.00. Then I know what I can plan for dinner, if there's room for a treat or not etc. I like it! I also do it the other way around, if I know I'll be having a heavy dinner/going out for drinks, I like to add the cocktails in advance so I know how to deal with it in the beginning of the day! It definitely helps me.

glyphhen

Thanks everyone!

I really like the idea of pre-logging for the week on Sundays and using that to build a grocery list. I think I'll be stealing that idea.

It's also just nice to know that I'm not the only mildly obsessive person out there.

sandryc79

I also find it crucial to prepare log my food. I do it in the morning as I pack my lunch and plan to have a certain amount left to play with for dinner. I often look at the nutritional breakdown to make sure I'm good on the macros I care about. Often dinner is a meal constructed of remaining calories and foods that fill the gaps. This is also when I see if I have room for a treat.

Athijade

It does help me, mostly because it keeps me from ordering food in or something like that LMAO.

I don't prelog my whole day ahead of time though. Each Sunday or Monday I log all of my dinners for the week. I will then log my lunches IF they are something I am planning ahead of time (such as leftovers). If I know I will have a specific dessert I will want to have, then I will make sure to log that so that I keep the calories for it instead of ending the day all sad because I can't have a cookie lol.

I would say prelogging for me is much more about making sure I eat the foods I bought at the grocery instead of wasting them and more money by eating out.

segacs

glyphhen wrote: »

I really like the idea of pre-logging for the week on Sundays and using that to build a grocery list. I think I'll be stealing that idea.

It's also just nice to know that I'm not the only mildly obsessive person out there.

I don't think it's obsessive. I mean, most people make some sort of grocery list when they go shopping.

Obsessive would be if you had to stick to it 100% with no room for variance, or if you weren't able to change things up on the fly.

I think it just makes sense to buy the things I'm going to eat, and not end up wasting food or throwing it away.

avskk

I pre-log four or five days in advance. It really helps me stick to my calorie goals, and as a bonus it helps me use everything in the fridge instead of throwing out a lot of unused stuff.

astralpictures

I pre-log in the morning many times, but don't always follow it exactly. I usually do it when I have a craving for something like a muffin or candy bar, so I can make sure to fit it in my goals. I also pre-log when I know I'm going out to eat at a restaurant, so I know what to pick and how many calories I'm left for the rest of the day (or if I know I'll go over, so I can cut back a little more on other days). It's fun for someone like me who enjoys crunching numbers :-)

mirrim52

I pre-log the day most of the time.

Last night I logged today. I knew I wanted to be a couple hundred calories under because of excesses earlier in the week. So I logged my breakfast, lunch and dinner, and noticed that just by leaving the granola off my usual morning snack, I was still good and still had room for a post-workout snack. If I didn't pre-log, I would have made my usual work snack, then gotten to the end of the day and had to make a decision of either going over my goal for the day or going to be hungry.