Losing Daily Streak

AmandaMiners13

Does anyone find losing your daily streak zaps your motivation?
I log my food but sometimes fill it in a day or so late if I’m really busy. If I’m just a bit too late catching up with my food log is resets to zero. I’ve just lost a 168 day streak. So frustrating!

quiksylver296

Your streak continues as long as you just log into the app for the day. You don't have to enter food or close out your diary. So I just log in quickly each morning, and then add stuff later in the day as needed.

LiveOnceBeHappy

Ugh, that would zap me! I'd pick myself back up, but it would suck. We're so data-oriented now that a walk doesn't "count" if the steps aren't logged. You've got this. Just.....start a new streak!

cupcakesandproteinshakes

I don’t really let it bother me now. I have days and weeks where I don’t log in. Cos life gets busy. As long as I weigh myself every day. That’s my basic check.

SeleneMoon333

Try 'pre-logging', logging tomorrow, and even a few days hence. Especially if you eat something regularly, like breakfast, I often have the same thing, so I enter it in for the week, but I also don't care much about the streak. However, when I was on spark people, they were saying the steak *did* matter for #motivation. I was just reading about a guy who said after he lost a couple hundred pounds and was on maintenance for 5 years, only *then* could he stop logging. Also...consider using the app, or getting premium (I can't afford it but wish I could support mfp. Spark would still be around if it had been more supported) or writing it down, then logging digitally, whatever helps you the most. Pre-logging is also useful in planning/pre-planning success. Good luck!