Losing weight and not needing to weigh food
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This post is still a thing?
Anyway I posted it here because I knew there would be a debate. No, I don't think you need to weigh food. However, if that's your thing, than good for you. You're taking your health into your hands and getting results.
But for those that want to give up.... you have other choices. That is my point. Please read my posts before responding. And no, I did not write the original post as a dissertation, so yeah, it may not have conveyed every point I meant.
In 5 years, let me know if your still weighing your food. 5 years! I will save this post and come back to it than and you can tell me all about how weighing food is sooooo important.... 5 years from now. August 24, 2021.0 -
This post is still a thing?
Anyway I posted it here because I knew there would be a debate. No, I don't think you need to weigh food. However, if that's your thing, than good for you. You're taking your health into your hands and getting results.
But for those that want to give up.... you have other choices. That is my point. Please read my posts before responding. And no, I did not write the original post as a dissertation, so yeah, it may not have conveyed every point I meant.
In 5 years, let me know if your still weighing your food. 5 years! I will save this post and come back to it than and you can tell me all about how weighing food is sooooo important.... 5 years from now. August 24, 2021.
But do you still feel sorry for those of us who choose to weigh our food?5 -
diannethegeek wrote: »This post is still a thing?
Anyway I posted it here because I knew there would be a debate. No, I don't think you need to weigh food. However, if that's your thing, than good for you. You're taking your health into your hands and getting results.
But for those that want to give up.... you have other choices. That is my point. Please read my posts before responding. And no, I did not write the original post as a dissertation, so yeah, it may not have conveyed every point I meant.
In 5 years, let me know if your still weighing your food. 5 years! I will save this post and come back to it than and you can tell me all about how weighing food is sooooo important.... 5 years from now. August 24, 2021.
But do you still feel sorry for those of us who choose to weigh our food?
Yes and no. Yes but no. I stand by my, tell me after 5 years of weighing. I will happily retract my statement.0 -
This post is still a thing?
Anyway I posted it here because I knew there would be a debate. No, I don't think you need to weigh food. However, if that's your thing, than good for you. You're taking your health into your hands and getting results.
But for those that want to give up.... you have other choices. That is my point. Please read my posts before responding. And no, I did not write the original post as a dissertation, so yeah, it may not have conveyed every point I meant.
In 5 years, let me know if your still weighing your food. 5 years! I will save this post and come back to it than and you can tell me all about how weighing food is sooooo important.... 5 years from now. August 24, 2021.
It's been 4 years and I still feel it's important for me to weigh into the next year...what did you want to say again? Or does that not count because it's only 4 years?3 -
Also, I didn't realize that one little sentence I wrote, when I was feeling it, was a thing people would get hung up on.... really I didn't. So if it matters. No I don't feel sorry for anyone that weighs food. Happy?1
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I would still like to know where people stand after 5 years.0
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I have been weighing my food 2 years, so ya, I will let you know in three. Good luck with your maintenance.1
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queenliz99 wrote: »I have been weighing my food 2 years, so ya, I will let you know in three. Good luck with your maintenance.
Please do.
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I have been on MFP since 2011, I am not going anywhere unless this site disappears. Please tell me I'm wrong in 5 years. I would love to learn something new. I don't think it will happen though.0
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What's weird is the hate for weighing and not logging.
I at least understand people who find logging annoying. I don't, as I have a very easy system and it is a small effort. I don't get why someone would be fine with logging but not weighing. That's quite literally one of the easiest things I do. It takes absolutely zero extra time or thought except to occasionally push the 'tare' button, and lets you dial in an exact portion.
I'd already been using a kitchen scale for over a decade for all solid measurement when following recipes, so using it to plate food wasn't really any different.3 -
Alluminati wrote: »
Have you been weighing for 4 years? If so congrats! That's amazing. So 1 person has out of.... how many? 100's?0 -
I've just hit the 2 year mark of weighing my food. It's just second nature now, i honestly dont even think about it anymore, it's become part of my normal routine.0
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I learned in this industry, "To control it, you have to measure it."3
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Also, I didn't realize that one little sentence I wrote, when I was feeling it, was a thing people would get hung up on.... really I didn't. So if it matters. No I don't feel sorry for anyone that weighs food. Happy?
This one statement would have gone a long way to shortening this thread 9 days ago. Did you really not realize that's what most of us were responding to?2 -
Alluminati wrote: »
Have you been weighing for 4 years? If so congrats! That's amazing. So 1 person has out of.... how many? 100's?
Also at about 4 years here. I'm sure if we wait a few others might surface.1 -
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Once again. If you need to weight. Good for you, but alot of people don't. AND this post if for them. I'll be glad to revisit this in 5 years and let you know how I am doing. NOT weighing. AND how that worked for me. Although 1 person doesn't matter either way.0
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diannethegeek wrote: »This one statement would have gone a long way to shortening this thread 9 days ago. Did you really not realize that's what most of us were responding to?
Honestly I didn't understand this. But I'm ignorant in human dynamics sometimes.0 -
If I'm to be totally honest.. I am petrified of regaining the weight i lost, and i feel if i stop weighing my food that portion/calorie creep will eff me up. I will 'maybe' have to let go of the security blanket one day.. but for now weighing everything is keeping me in line
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Once again. If you need to weight. Good for you, but alot of people don't. AND this post if for them. I'll be glad to revisit this in 5 years and let you know how I am doing. NOT weighing. AND how that worked for me. Although 1 person doesn't matter either way.
Not weighing absolutely does work well for many people. But you chose to put down those of us who do weigh in order to reach out to the people you were speaking to. I really don't care whether you're weighing or not in 5 years. I care that you respect people whether or not they are weighing.7 -
Alluminati wrote: »
Have you been weighing for 4 years? If so congrats! That's amazing. So 1 person has out of.... how many? 100's?
How do you know that I'm 1 of a hundred? Did you survey alll of MFP? I still don't understand what your point is or why you are telling everyone to speak to you 5 years from now. What is the point of that request?1 -
Christine_72 wrote: »If I'm to be totally honest.. I am petrified of regaining the weight i lost, and i feel if i stop weighing my food that portion/calorie creep will eff me up. I will 'maybe' have to let go of the security blanket one day.. but for now weighing everything is keeping me in line
I totally respect that. Thank you for being honest. I will no longer feel sorry for people that weigh, having been enlighten with this response. [I'm being very serious]2 -
Alluminati wrote: »Alluminati wrote: »
Have you been weighing for 4 years? If so congrats! That's amazing. So 1 person has out of.... how many? 100's?
How do you know that I'm 1 of a hundred? Did you survey alll of MFP? I still don't understand what your point is or why you are telling everyone to speak to you 5 years from now. What is the point of that request?
You missed my survey?1 -
Once again. If you need to weight. Good for you, but alot of people don't. AND this post if for them. I'll be glad to revisit this in 5 years and let you know how I am doing. NOT weighing. AND how that worked for me. Although 1 person doesn't matter either way.
What are you trying to revisit? I'm telling you that I've been logging for 4 years going on 5 but I don't count? Why, because that means you're wrong?
Lol. Just lol.1 -
diannethegeek wrote: »Once again. If you need to weight. Good for you, but alot of people don't. AND this post if for them. I'll be glad to revisit this in 5 years and let you know how I am doing. NOT weighing. AND how that worked for me. Although 1 person doesn't matter either way.
Not weighing absolutely does work well for many people. But you chose to put down those of us who do weigh in order to reach out to the people you were speaking to. I really don't care whether you're weighing or not in 5 years. I care that you respect people whether or not they are weighing.
I don't feel like I put anyone down. IS that what you see?1 -
Alluminati wrote: »Once again. If you need to weight. Good for you, but alot of people don't. AND this post if for them. I'll be glad to revisit this in 5 years and let you know how I am doing. NOT weighing. AND how that worked for me. Although 1 person doesn't matter either way.
What are you trying to revisit? I'm telling you that I've been logging for 4 years going on 5 but I don't count? Why, because that means you're wrong?
Lol. Just lol.
No... it means you haven't done it for 5 years.0 -
diannethegeek wrote: »Once again. If you need to weight. Good for you, but alot of people don't. AND this post if for them. I'll be glad to revisit this in 5 years and let you know how I am doing. NOT weighing. AND how that worked for me. Although 1 person doesn't matter either way.
Not weighing absolutely does work well for many people. But you chose to put down those of us who do weigh in order to reach out to the people you were speaking to. I really don't care whether you're weighing or not in 5 years. I care that you respect people whether or not they are weighing.
I don't feel like I put anyone down. IS that what you see?
Yes. Even Stevie Wonder saw.
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Alluminati wrote: »Alluminati wrote: »
Have you been weighing for 4 years? If so congrats! That's amazing. So 1 person has out of.... how many? 100's?
How do you know that I'm 1 of a hundred? Did you survey alll of MFP? I still don't understand what your point is or why you are telling everyone to speak to you 5 years from now. What is the point of that request?
You missed my survey?
I don't get it. Am I missing something?0 -
Alluminati wrote: »Once again. If you need to weight. Good for you, but alot of people don't. AND this post if for them. I'll be glad to revisit this in 5 years and let you know how I am doing. NOT weighing. AND how that worked for me. Although 1 person doesn't matter either way.
What are you trying to revisit? I'm telling you that I've been logging for 4 years going on 5 but I don't count? Why, because that means you're wrong?
Lol. Just lol.
No... it means you haven't done it for 5 years.
So? You are telling me I won't be here logging at 5 years?0
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