Adding drinks to the daily food log

paperpudding

I dont bother logging water or following my fluid intake - no need for healthy people to do this in normal circumstances.

I set up a category for drinks and log coffee (about 20 calories per cup for white coffee, no sugar, I have about 4 per day so calories add up) and any other drinks I might have from time to time - juice, milk, alcoholic drinks etc

( i dont bother logging diet soda either -which I drink a can or so of per week)

AnnPT77

pjcallow1 wrote: »

I log my tea, coffee, fruit juice and other drinks alongside the meal they accompanied (as others have said, these drinks all contain a mix of nutrients other than water). I hadn't thought about creating a category specifically for drinks (i.e. those consumed at other times) - good idea, I'll do that. I'm not clear whether MyFitnessPal makes a water allowance each time I add a drink - I don't think it does, but I'm not completely sure. Currently I'm adding the drink(s) and then adding the corresponding guesstimate(s) for water to its specific category. Does anyone have any more thoughts about this?

MFP doesn't do anything automatically to up your water count when you log tea or something. (Keep in mind that lots of foods include fluids that hydrate, too: Soups, fruits, more.)

Personally, I do log water daily, but only because I tend to under-drink (to my detriment) if I don't pay attention). Even so, I only log water as water, sometimes don't log plain tea or other zero-calorie drinks at all. By late in the day, I'm thinking about whether my water total is where I want it to be, and the logged plain water is a memory aid to that. I usually remember the other stuff.

That's not some kind of directive or gospel; it's just what works for me personally.

lemurcat2

paperpudding wrote: »

I dont bother logging water or following my fluid intake - no need for healthy people to do this in normal circumstances.

I set up a category for drinks and log coffee (about 20 calories per cup for white coffee, no sugar, I have about 4 per day so calories add up) and any other drinks I might have from time to time - juice, milk, alcoholic drinks etc

( i dont bother logging diet soda either -which I drink a can or so of per week)

I don't log water either, same reason.

I log drinks if they have meaningful calories. I've never bothered logging my daily black coffee, and I don't log tea or diet soda when I occasionally have them (I don't add anything to tea either).

PAV8888

I log drinks that have less than 5 calories... just because!
I don't log water... because it doesn't have any.
My pee color seems to indicate that I don't have a (lack of) drinking problem.

fitoverfortymom

I don't log anything I drink unless it has calories, like a cocktail or beer or if I put cream in my coffee.