Committing Your Food

drachfit

I usually cook and portion out 7-14 meals at once. I know I will eat them for lunch and dinner that week, so I just plug em all in at once. very simple. don't have to think about logging or measuring food except once a week.

doesn't stop me from having and logging a snack on a particular day if I'm extra hungry. but for the most part the meals are portioned to get me exactly on my macros and calories each day. i usually eat the same breakfast too.

ashorey87

I always pre-log my meals the night before. If I log as I go, I have a hard time meeting my goals for nutrients, macros, etc, then I get stressed out and eat whatever, and it's disastrous lol

lemurcat12

I have a plan in my head at the beginning of the day, normally, which is flexible. My meals don't tend to differ dramatically and I don't change them on impulse to something with radically different macros/nutrients. So as long as I don't eat unplanned things during the day (which I normally don't, but logging the thing if I'm thinking of eating it vs. prelogging tends to help with that), I stick to plan. If I eat something unplanned I might revise dinner to be fewer calories or drop dessert if I was planning on a dessert.

I know lots of people find prelogging helpful but because I plan so much in my head it's never made any difference for me.

trinty425

Every morning while drinking my morning coffee...I decide first what is for dinner. I put meat out to thaw and do any prep work needed for dinner then. I do dinner first because it is usually the meal that has the most calories, fat, and sodium in it. I check servings sizes and properly fit in how much I will realistically eat. Then I figure out and put in my lunch. (If dinner is super high fat...then I make lunch low in fat....so I keep my carbs, sugars, fats, and sodium in the green). Then I look at my goals for everything and play with and plug different snacks in so that I am as close to my goals for everything without going into the red. I then leave my page open on my 2nd monitor so that I see it every time I am near my computer. If it is not on the list I don't eat it. If for any reason I want to make a change....I put in the change BEFORE I eat to see if it makes me go in the red or not.

one235

I log everyday and stick to it. I find it easier to do my meal planning in the morning, so I am not guessing all day.
I also plan snacks to fit in. It is a lot of changing and re-arranging, but I do it.