Travel Meal Logging
Meesamoop
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This weekend I am traveling to hang out with friends for the Memorial Day weekend. This means that on more than one occasion I will be eating meals at a restaurant.
90% of my food is either homemade or a healthy snack with nutritional info that I have access to.
I used to not log restaurant food because I didn't know the exact nutritional value. I have changed that behavior and now I search the food database for a food that is similar to what I ate at the restaurant. You can view my food diary and see what I logged for my dinner last night as an example.
This morning I walked over to Wholefoods and ordered two breakfast tacos. I made some heathy choices on the tacos (corn tortilla instead of flour, no cheese, veggie chorizo instead of bacon). After I ate the first taco I logged it into MFP and decided that I should save the second taco for tomorrow's breakfast (I very easily could have eaten that second taco!).
Im really striving to log everything, even if it's just a guess because I didn't prepare the food myself. The logging also lets me try to adjust future meals to make up for some of those restaurant meals.
90% of my food is either homemade or a healthy snack with nutritional info that I have access to.
I used to not log restaurant food because I didn't know the exact nutritional value. I have changed that behavior and now I search the food database for a food that is similar to what I ate at the restaurant. You can view my food diary and see what I logged for my dinner last night as an example.
This morning I walked over to Wholefoods and ordered two breakfast tacos. I made some heathy choices on the tacos (corn tortilla instead of flour, no cheese, veggie chorizo instead of bacon). After I ate the first taco I logged it into MFP and decided that I should save the second taco for tomorrow's breakfast (I very easily could have eaten that second taco!).
Im really striving to log everything, even if it's just a guess because I didn't prepare the food myself. The logging also lets me try to adjust future meals to make up for some of those restaurant meals.
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I do a lot of best guessing at similar items when it comes to home made foods of uncertain recipe, or brands/sources that I can't match exactly. I try to err on the side of overestimating calories when I do. I haven't purchased a food scale at this point, so most of my entry portions are either volume based or guesstimate.1
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