Restuarants, arghhh

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  • htimpaired
    htimpaired Posts: 1,404 Member
    jdb3388 wrote: »
    janejellyroll wrote: »
    Sabine_Stroehm wrote: »
    jdb3388 wrote: »
    This is backwards as *kitten*. It's 1000 times easier to track when you go to a restaurant than when you cook at home. You just find the item and log it, you don't have to weigh anything or measure portions or any of that mess. If I could just eat out every single day that would make dieting so much easier.

    Assuming you only eat at chain restaurants. I eat out about 3 times a week for a given meal. I'd say I eat at a chain restaurant (bigger than local) about three times a month.

    Yeah, I would say that about 75% of my dining out is at non-chain restaurants where I'm having to estimate the calories and portions. This doesn't make it impossible, but it's more challenging than when I cook at home and know all my ingredients, portion sizes, etc.

    Well, stop doing that and eat at chain restaurants if you want to have an easier time logging.

    That can easily backfire as well. For example-Unos. I noticed on their website that many of the dishes' nutrition info is for one serving-but when you look closer the entire plate of food is listed as two servings, so you need to be aware to double everything. Suddenly your 600 calorie plate of pasta is now 1200 calories.
  • cwolfman13
    cwolfman13 Posts: 41,865 Member
    When you understand that all of this is estimation and that it doesn't have to be all or nothing and that you don't have to be 100% perfect but just good enough then these things will cease to be demotivating...hell, I don't log a damn thing and haven't in almost 3.5 years and I'm motivated as *kitten*.
  • WinoGelato
    WinoGelato Posts: 13,454 Member
    Too bad OP hasn't come back to comment on any of the good advice that has been posted or elaborate about what was meant by losing a streak...

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