January 4
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Do you track everything? Every day? Or do you skip higher calorie times? I do my best to track every day. Sometimes is tricky when eating out but I do my best to guess by comparing items to my hand (palm, thumb, etc)
Do you weigh your food or eyeball it or both?
Both, I need to get back into weighing. It’s more accurate.
Do you look at your trends and/or averages?
Yes! I check out the weeks I’ve been losing and see how I can reincorporate what I was doing that was working. Likewise, I checkout the weeks where I didn’t lose or I gained and see what I can do to avoid it.
What is the best thing about tracking for you?
I wouldn’t lose without it.
What is the thing you are working on at the moment re: tracking?
I’m going to start tracking with the scale again.
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@MadisonMolly2017
Thank you for the opening topic.
You hit all the nails!
Do you track everything? Every day? Or do you skip higher calorie times?
I track everything, everyday, it's my daily routine
. I have learned that is the secret to my success.
Do you weigh your food or eyeball it or both?
Eyeballing is not my friend. Over times, the eye starts growing bigger
Therefore, I weigh and measure. I have over the years created my recipes with weighed, measured, etc., items. Therefore, I know my serving size. I have a good estimation when I am outside my house. I have learned to use my hand to estimate when I cannot measure.
Do you look at your trends and/or averages?
I like to look at my trends.
What is the best thing about tracking for you?
It makes me see the effect of some food items on my progress. Good for decision making. Working on my fruits because most of my sugar is from my fruits. If I was not tracking I would not have noticed the need to reduce/exchange my fruits. Learning to know which fruits are high in sugar, etc., is fun.
What is the thing you are working on at the moment re: tracking?
Using my tracking to learn about my food items and their nutrients.4 -
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Do you track everything? Every day? Or do you skip higher calorie times?
I track everything everyday (when I am trying to lose weight). I lost 75 pounds tracking everything. Got to my goal, stopped tracking and gained 85 over the next 7 years. When I finally got myself going again I told myself I would never stop tracking again. I lost those 85 pounds over about a year and a half while tracking and working hard on learning to avoid emotional eating. Then I got overconfident and I stopped tracking after about 3 years of successful maintenance-- after about another year I started gaining again and gained 100 pounds in about 6 years. I hope I have really learned my lesson this time and will keep tracking.
Do you weigh your food or eyeball it or both?
I usually weigh/measure calorie dense things like oils and meat. I eye ball stuff that I don´t think small errors would affect much, like lettuce and many vegetables.
Do you look at your trends and/or averages? Yes.
What is the best thing about tracking for you?
It keeps me mindful and committed.
What is the thing you are working on at the moment re: tracking?
Tracking sooner after I eat. Sometimes I don´t get it recorded until the end of the day.
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Exercise-bike
Tracked-yes
Calories- yes
0/3 pass days
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Stellar posts my friends many different ways to keep focused. I track almost every item that I eat/drink this keeps me on task and focused. Sometimes I weigh food but most time I just enter exactly what I ate.
Sometimes I go back and look at trends but not often, the best thing that tracking does for me is to keep me focused and it has become a habit. I prolog some days but not all the time.5 -
Tues 1/4/22
Exercise: 75 min Wii Tennis
Calories Budget 1200: under
Tracking: Complete
Pass days 3/34 -
All three done 0/3 pass days.
I got a new resistance band strap that goes around a door horizontally it seemed to work well.4 -
January 4
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1 pass day used
Great opening but I have too little time tonight to properly reply. I think the replies so far are awesome!6 -
✅ Exercise: 30 minutes walking
✅ Calories
✅ Tracked
0 pass days used ( )
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Did I exercise for at least 20 minutes? Yes, 55 minutes on the Peloton bike, 20 minutes strength training, 10 minutes stretching.
Did I stay within my calorie budget for the day? Yes
Did I keep track of everything I ate and drank? Yes
10 minutes meditation
If I don't weigh/measure/record everything accurately, in the piggy trough I go!! Gotta stay honest!
Great posts everyone, will definitely reread.
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Jan 4:
✅✅✅ exercise today was walking at work (inside the building, where it was warm!)
Pass Days Used: 0/3
Such a great opener Maddie! I'm enjoying reading everyone's posts! There's a lot of food for thought here! (Pun intended!)
Do you track everything? Every day? Or do you skip higher calorie times?
Yes. I track everything everyday - even if I go over. The only exception might be when I'm sick.
In 2018 I lost 60 lbs doing a keto plan, and when I reached my goal weight, I stopped tracking and quit using MFP. It only took 1.5 years to gain back 40 of that. I decided at the 40lb mark that I needed to get back to basics before I gained ALL of it back (and MORE!)
I got back on MFP in Aug 2020 and found the UAC in October of that year. Since then I've lost 50 lbs and have surpassed where I was in 2018. I've learned so much about losing and 'maintaining' in the UAC - great info that I wish I would have known when I was younger. I've also come to realize that I'm going to be a lifetime member of MFP.... and I'm ok with that. I don't close out my diary at the end of the day because I really don't want to see what MFP thinks I'll weigh in 5 weeks. Plus, I'm really not looking for the comments/kudos/high-fives from my MFP 'friends'.
Do you weigh your food or eyeball it or both?
I do weigh most things because I've learned that I'm very heavy handed.. I even measure the 2T of cream in my coffee in the morning! Lol. I will sometimes eye ball veggies - although I weighed those too when I was trying to lose weight.
Do you look at your trends and/or averages? Not usually. In the past, if I felt like I was doing everything right and was not losing weight like I thought I should, I have often gone back to do some digging...
What is the best thing about tracking for you?
It keeps me mindful and on track.
What is the thing you are working on at the moment re: tracking?
Getting back to pre-logging. I was doing well at that until I got sick in December. Funny how fast your habits can fall apart if you don't stay on top of them!
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Jan 4/22
Awesome opener @MadisonMolly2017! Today was a yes to tracking, no to staying within budget, and I did some journaling to get out some work stress rather than walk. I should have fit both in. I will be kind to myself though because I had a bad night's sleep. This is my second pass day.
I have a list of 9 points that are keys to staying consistent. This month I am actively trying to apply this one: "Don't let perfect be the enemy of good." It is actually a piece of advice that I had previously ignored. I take this to mean that okay, I was hungry and wanting to nibble today and I gave in to it. But I ensured my choices were better and had limits. So although it wasn't a perfect day, it was still a good day in terms of what I nibbled on. I ended up eating supper for afternoon snack and then ate popcorn flavored with a spritz of avocado oil and Everything but the Bagel seasoning and grated Romano cheese. I ate some chocolate covered pretzels but didn't allow myself to eat the whole bag. I forfeited my supper and will go to bed early with a sleeping pill tonight. I'm not sure if I ate within maintenance but I ended up consuming 1,857 of my 1,427 allotted calories. Considering I have binge-ate sometimes up to 3,500 calories in a day, I can say that even though it wasn't a perfect day, it remained a good day. For me that is progress even if I feel like I failed. I need to talk up the positive in order to reach the overall long-term goal as I have a habit of tossing in the towel and letting loose when I've gone over calorie budget. So yes, today I "didn't let perfect be the enemy of good".
Since I've written such a long post I won't answer Mollie's questions. Quite truthfully I'm still working on the 3 very basic goals of this group and haven't yet "advanced" to the big people's status to answer those questions!
I guess I'm a tough nut to crack... 8 -
✅ Exercise: Gentle abbreviated lunges
✅ Calories: under goal
✅ Tracked
Remaining pass days: 3️⃣
So now I lunge walk through the house, sometimes to music.8 -
Did I exercise for at least 20 minutes? Yes, 20 minutes yoga, 20 minutes strength (shoulders + core)
Did I stay within my calorie budget for the day? No
Did I keep track of everything I ate and drank? Yes
Back on the road the 11+ hours home tomorrow! Got lots of snow today so I'm hoping the roads aren't too bad. Makes for an extra long day otherwise. Looking forward to getting on my Peloton when we get home!
Pass days used - 2/37 -
Did I exercise for at least 20 minutes? Yes, Pahla B strength training - Day 2 January
Did I stay within my calorie budget for the day? Yes
Did I keep track of everything I ate and drank? Yes
zero pass days used.
Great information on tracking today.8 -
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I was sick today
Caleries yes
Exersized no
Logged yes8 -
✅ Exercise - 1 hour of Jazzercise plus a 49 (3 mile) minute neighborhood walk
✅ Calories -
✅ Tracking -
Closed all my Apple watch rings today
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Hello Friends,
Did I exercise for at least 20 minutes? Yes 1hr and 30min
Did I stay within my calorie budget for the day? Yes , I took pictures of lunch and dinner check'em out
Did I keep track of everything I ate and drank? Yes, and is starting to be fun8 -
Did I exercise for at least 20 minutes? Yes 45 minutes zumba on the wii- yes I still use my wii
Did I stay within my calorie budget for the day? Yes
Did I keep track of everything I ate and drank? Yes
My lack of maintenance in everything in my life makes this particular area my biggest challenge. I come here for a few months when I have a cruise or something coming up and hunker down. My fiancé is the opposite - he lives by routine and once I introduced him to the MFP app he has consistently entered his daily food ever since! I’m not sure I’ll ever get that routinized. I’ve always been project focused and it takes all my energy when I’m working on something - sometimes it’s weight loss sometimes it’s costumes. Maintenance will always be my biggest bane
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