Are you going to track FOREVER?@!

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  • jeffjeff85
    jeffjeff85 Posts: 118 Member
    dewd2 wrote: »
    jeffjeff85 wrote: »
    dewd2 wrote: »
    At 5' 9" I weighed 225 pounds. I can tell you for sure the guidelines are not wrong. I was a fat *kitten*. Compare pictures from before to now. The difference is dramatic. I was so outta shape and I looked like hell. The thing is I didn't think I had an issue. Now it is obvious.

    Course, that raises the question ....
    If you 'didnt think I had an issue', then WHY the change?

    I dropped 50 pounds over the course of 18 months and have maintained that ever since.

    I am back to tracking since I'm now focused on dropping another 10-15 pounds for performance reasons.

    Not sure how somebody 'didnt think there was an issue" with 50lbs, but if theres a 50lb difference between tracking and not tracking, then certainly.

  • mjglantz
    mjglantz Posts: 508 Member
    I have no plans to stop. Believe that tracking helped me to lose the 86 lbs and keeping it off (6 + years and counting). By now it's second nature and takes no time. Keeps me focused.
  • jeffjeff85
    jeffjeff85 Posts: 118 Member
    mjglantz wrote: »
    I have no plans to stop. Keeps me focused.

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  • PrismaticPhoenix
    PrismaticPhoenix Posts: 65 Member
    I'm finding tracking a lot less irritating than I thought it would be, but so far I'm eating at home and cooking myself. I expect that things will get rougher when I'm in situations when I'm not making my own food and we'll see what happens then.
  • Katmary71
    Katmary71 Posts: 7,070 Member
    I unfortunately see myself tracking long-term. I just hit maintenance and my weight is up after a rough week where I ate out a lot and ate other's meals and I must've underestimated. I normally eat at home so I'm pretty much in control of my food most the time. I'm on a medication that makes me think I'm hungry all the time so if I tried intuitive eating or eating until I'm full I'd be in trouble. I've found I don't mind logging, the data is interesting to me.
  • paperpudding
    paperpudding Posts: 9,279 Member
    I know if some poster, regardless of their personal situation/story, had told me when I first joined that I didn't/shouldn't track I would (A) be offended at the audacity of presuming to know *my* situation/story and, (B), likely be off-put enough to have decided this wasn't the website for me after all despite being directed here by Google when looking specifically for a CICO based weight loss community.


    did anyone tell anyone that??



  • glassyo
    glassyo Posts: 7,738 Member
    edited November 2019
    Oops, nothing to see here.
  • paperpudding
    paperpudding Posts: 9,279 Member
    edited November 2019
    Well perhaps - I don't read all threads so crossthreading gets lost on me.

    But if the question is Are you going to track forever and somebody replies with no, it feels like shackles, that seems only answering the question of what you are going to do.

    It doesn't feel like shackles to me - but if it does for anyone else, they can say so.
    It isn't saying everyone should feel that - any more than I was saying or implying everyone should do it like me.
  • glassyo
    glassyo Posts: 7,738 Member
    paperpudding wrote: »
    Well perhaps - I don't read all threads so crossthreading gets lost on me.

    But if the question is Are you going to track forever and somebody replies with no, it feels like shackles, that seems only answering the question of what you are going to do.

    It doesn't feel like shackles to me - but if it does for anyone else, they can say so.
    It isn't saying everyone should feel that - any more than I was saying or implying everyone should do it like me.

    No, I think @AnnPT77 is right. I'm almost positive that certain person has actually given the advice not to log but, even if she hasn't, it almost comes across as bragging when she repeatedly says she doesn't log and only eats healthy.

    Which is good if she's coming from an ED perspective but bad if she's giving advice to people who haven't gone through that.

    For me, as long as there's a computer or pen and paper, I'll log. I know myself way too well to trust I'll eat only as much as I should and not go crazy if I don't hold myself accountable.
  • paperpudding
    paperpudding Posts: 9,279 Member
    No. In this thread the poster did not advise anyone else.

    Any more than I did.

    We answered what would you do with what we do.

    Coming across as bragging seems perception by the reader - I guess you could say my posts come across as bragging, saying long term loose logging works for me.
  • glassyo
    glassyo Posts: 7,738 Member
    paperpudding wrote: »
    No. In this thread the poster did not advise anyone else.

    Any more than I did.

    We answered what would you do with what we do.

    Coming across as bragging seems perception by the reader - I guess you could say my posts come across as bragging, saying long term loose logging works for me.

    No, not in this thread but we all post the same things over and over again in different threads so if you see it enough times...

    And, yes, that's my perception. After seeing it in MANY threads.
  • kshama2001
    kshama2001 Posts: 28,052 Member
    paperpudding wrote: »
    Well perhaps - I don't read all threads so crossthreading gets lost on me.

    But if the question is Are you going to track forever and somebody replies with no, it feels like shackles, that seems only answering the question of what you are going to do.

    It doesn't feel like shackles to me - but if it does for anyone else, they can say so.
    It isn't saying everyone should feel that - any more than I was saying or implying everyone should do it like me.

    I think posting history is important to understand where someone is coming from. I would have certainly felt that logging was odious when I was 16 years old.
  • kshama2001
    kshama2001 Posts: 28,052 Member
    jeffjeff85 wrote: »
    dewd2 wrote: »
    jeffjeff85 wrote: »
    dewd2 wrote: »
    At 5' 9" I weighed 225 pounds. I can tell you for sure the guidelines are not wrong. I was a fat *kitten*. Compare pictures from before to now. The difference is dramatic. I was so outta shape and I looked like hell. The thing is I didn't think I had an issue. Now it is obvious.

    Course, that raises the question ....
    If you 'didnt think I had an issue', then WHY the change?

    I dropped 50 pounds over the course of 18 months and have maintained that ever since.

    I am back to tracking since I'm now focused on dropping another 10-15 pounds for performance reasons.

    Not sure how somebody 'didnt think there was an issue" with 50lbs, but if theres a 50lb difference between tracking and not tracking, then certainly.

    You snipped out the part that answered your question. Here:
    dewd2 wrote: »
    jeffjeff85 wrote: »
    dewd2 wrote: »
    At 5' 9" I weighed 225 pounds. I can tell you for sure the guidelines are not wrong. I was a fat *kitten*. Compare pictures from before to now. The difference is dramatic. I was so outta shape and I looked like hell. The thing is I didn't think I had an issue. Now it is obvious.

    Course, that raises the question ....
    If you 'didnt think I had an issue', then WHY the change?

    Because I started running again and it was necessary (I couldn't keep the pace I was used to years before and it wasn't just because I hadn't been training). After a couple weeks of not losing I started using MFP. That's when it all came together. I noticed where the extra calories were coming from and very quickly got a handle on my diet. I dropped 50 pounds over the course of 18 months and have maintained that ever since.

    I am back to tracking since I'm now focused on dropping another 10-15 pounds for performance reasons.

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