How to track?

ManEatingLizard

I don't cook small meals. I cook giant one-pot meals and split them up into tupperware.
I'm having problems because I don't eat a whole serving. I'm working really hard on STOPPING eating when I'm not hungry anymore, and only eating when I am actually hungry.

So like I planned to eat a whole serving of spaghetti I made for lunch, but I really only ate like 7 bites with some bread and a yogurt. So I know how much the yogurt was, as it's prepackaged, but not everything else, since I'm not eating set servings and it's stuff I made.

I'm not really sure how to track this. I'm currently trying to guess what percentage of a serving I ate, but I feel like I'm either going to overcompensate and log either too much or too few calories and just flounder. I've considered tracking bites instead of calories, but that doesn't tell me nutritional information and I really have to track my protein intake because of this medication I'm on (which is also helping to curb my appetite).

Any suggestions welcome. I'm at a loss.
And if you wanna be friends, I could use friends.

L1zardQueen

Take a guess, like you said "a percentage" and if you not losing weight or are losing too fast, change the percentage.

lemurcat2

It might be easier with a food scale.

However, if you save what you don't eat to eat later, just log the whole thing and don't log when you finish it, or guess at the percentage and make sure it all adds up to 1.

For the one-pot meals, I'd count the calories for the whole, divide it into roughly equal servings, and then divide by the number of servings. You can use the recipe builder (for that I probably would) or just divide up the amount of each ingredient and then you can save it as a meal and repeat any time you have one of the containers.