Do you still log what food you eat on party, buffets, restaurant etc.?
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I log everything from Monday to Friday as it's much easier for me to do. I don't log at weekends, and as a consequence I usually need a deficit during the week to keep within my goal range. Works for me, even though I'm sure it's not the best method for maintenance.0
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Do you still log what food you eat on party, buffet, restaurant etc.? I find it hard to log what I'm eating up because I was too distracted I drink a 1.5 litre of coke today and I don't know how much food I've eatened Expecting the scale to backfire haha. I'm just curious
Resturants i do, they usually have menu items logged in on this app. Everything else no unless I can estimate well. But I'm not logging when I'm at a buffet or a party1 -
livingleanlivingclean wrote: »Yes. I generally prelog, even when eating out
THIS. Rule to live by.1 -
Pretty sure I overestimate when eating out2
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Am I the only one disturbed by the 1.5 liters of coke a day?? That's nearly 800 calories of nonsense. If you just lowered that addiction to 1 can a day, diet coke if you can. I'd imagine you would start losing weight regardless of what else you've been eating. That's just crazy
It's because you may have misread. I think they meant just the one day as a special day like at a party or something. Not 100% but that was how I interpreted it. If they mean daily, that is very unhealthy. lol.1 -
Yes to pre-planning. If you can't, focus on what the typical serving size is. Weddings and banquets are especially hard.
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I try to pre-log as well and generally estimate on the high side. Most of the restaurants I go to aren't in the MFP database though so that makes it tough (and time-consuming to guesstimate!).1
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I do my best but realize there is a huge margin of error and I'm not about to put a scale in my purse lol4
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Yes or no, depending. I go through phases of being a lazy logger.
Yes, when I'm logging consistently. I'll do my best at guesstimating and do a quick add OR sometimes I'll try and log everything if it wasn't 25 bites of different things.
Then there are those times when I'm slacking and don't log anything at all. If parties happen during those lazy days/weeks then no. Then if (when) I see the scale creeping back up I get serious about it again. Like today!0 -
If there is nutritional info available, I log it, if not I guess as best I can and try to overestimate.1
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Yup I log it. If the company has a posted calorie guide, I used it. Off they don't, I make an educated guess by using something similar from a published calorie guide from a different restaurant.0
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I do my best to log as accurately as possible without being obnoxious.0
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I try, but it requires alot of guesstimating.0
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I try to log everything. I bet I usually underestimate the wine though2
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Mostly. If I'm at a restaurant and know what I'm ordering, I definitely log, even if it's an estimate.
I can't remember the last time I ate at a true buffet, but most parties? Eh, I just quick-add 1000 calories and move on.0 -
I haven't logged anything in forever, but when I did I wouldn't have bothered as something like this would be more or less a one off.0
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I try to log all the time. I've been on maintenance for 30 years with a 40 lb. loss and logging works for me. I know that if I don't do it and do it honestly, I'll slip back to old habits. I really am a healthy eater, enjoy it that way, and am close to vegetarian, so lots of times hard to find stuff to eat. If I am going to a restaurant, I look at the menu beforehand online and figure out what I'm going to have. Lots of times, it's just a Caesar salad (no croutons, dressing on the side) with grilled salmon over it. I figure I am there for the company, and that's where they wanted to go, and it's OK if I'm not eating something exciting. If it's a buffet or something where I know that I will never be able to count accurately or find something healthy that I would eat, I usually pre-eat something before I go and then see if there is something I can munch on. Weddings, etc. are usually when I pre-eat because I never find anything served to me that I like and my husband usually eats what I don't, so no food is wasted. If I have a day where I go over calories but find it hard to log accurately, I log as closely as I can with items in the data base that seem to be similar. I do have those days where it all slips away and I eat too much or eat in a way that isn't how I usually do. That's when I try to be as honest as possible when I log. And that's when I get right back the next day to my usual routine. PLUS my body always tells me that it doesn't like what I did!! It's really used to being treated well, I guess.0
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Oh boy. Just re read what I wrote above. I've been on maintenance for THREE plus years, not 30! LOL0
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