Living The Lifestyle Thursday 3/2/23
imastar2
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This is a thread for everyone. If you're new to GoaD, or to weight loss, your questions and comments are always welcome. If you're maintaining, or a long-term loser, your thoughts on the topic may be just what someone else needs to hear. If you're reading this, join in the discussion!
Each weekday, a new topic is offered up for discussion.
Monday - crewahl (Charlie)
Tuesday – Flintwinch (Tim)
Wednesday - misterhub (Greg)
Thursday -imastar2 (Derrick)
Friday - Wildcard
Today's Topic: Tracking - We haven't talked/disussed this in awhile best I can remember. Most of you participating are senior to me as I started in 2010 and tracked till I left WW and started on MFP.
So what's your status with tracking. Do you track everything? Do you continue to track every oz, cup, scoop, volume. Do you continue to post as well in WW or MFP? Using either or both?
Lastly Do you feel it's critical to your success to track?
This Topic is almost beginning to sound like a survey. Lol!
Each weekday, a new topic is offered up for discussion.
Monday - crewahl (Charlie)
Tuesday – Flintwinch (Tim)
Wednesday - misterhub (Greg)
Thursday -imastar2 (Derrick)
Friday - Wildcard
Today's Topic: Tracking - We haven't talked/disussed this in awhile best I can remember. Most of you participating are senior to me as I started in 2010 and tracked till I left WW and started on MFP.
So what's your status with tracking. Do you track everything? Do you continue to track every oz, cup, scoop, volume. Do you continue to post as well in WW or MFP? Using either or both?
Lastly Do you feel it's critical to your success to track?
This Topic is almost beginning to sound like a survey. Lol!
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Not currently. This even though I’m 3 lbs in the red zone. I did make a couple of minor adjustments and the scale is trending down so I’m leaving everything alone for now. We’ll see if I get back to under 175 without tracking.
But I usually have a pretty good idea of how many calories I’ve eaten. Helps to eat the same stuff a lot. And if I think I’m adding something to the rotation I’m definitely crunching the numbers. Sometimes number crunching alone is enough.
And yes, tracking has been critical to my success. I weighed 175 lbs when I graduated high school in 1968. Nearly unbelievable that I ever got back to that. Wouldn’t have happened without tracking. Wouldn’t have maintained without a willingness to pick it up again from time to time.0 -
When I first started WW, I tracked diligently: every ounce, cup, scoop, etc. It was a lot of work initially, but once I figured out the points for my most typical meals, it became much easier.
I stopped tracking a year or two after I made goal.
I started "intuitive eating" at that point. It turns out that "intuitive" is easy for me, because my meals are often pretty similar to one-another (as @88olds noted above). Once I know my baseline intake, I know that if I snack too much I'll gain weight, and if I need to lose weight, I need to get back down to my baseline intake. I never tracked exercise, nor ate extra points based on exercise.
So, to summarize, I know what I'm supposed to do, but I don't always do it!1 -
I'm not tracking physically anymore. It really got too time consuming way back there for me. You might ask? How am I being accountable and to whom? I'm glad you ask. So I've only been accountable to myself until this pass Tuesday when my psychotherapist whom I have been a seeing about weight control and the mental aspect of it cor years ask me this week if I wanted to be accountable to her and send her what I ate.
Nothing really heavy duty just a list of what I ate during the day no portion sizes, volumes or anything. So yes I agreed. I believe it will be a positive thing to do plus the added benefit of at least knowing another set of eyes is looking over what I eat. We'll see and report back as time goes on.
Some form of tracking I believe is critical to my success. It certainly was when I did it for years for sure. It's just I became overwhelmed with tracking in too much detail and had to back off to the extent that I finally stopped completely.0 -
“Hooked on tracking . . . “
I do track. It helps me to have a boundary for how much I can/should/shoulda eat. I generally stay within my target, but my first fallback defensive position is the “healthy eating range” with the WW construct (not more than ten points over or eight points under target.)
Tracking helps me to see what I’m eating relative to the volume of food I need for fuel. Absent that, I can rationalize away any single decision or blip as an aberration.
And I do double-track on WW and MFP. WW helps me see where I am relative to my boundaries, but MFP does a better job telling me about how nutritious my choices are.1 -
“Hooked on tracking . . . “
I do track. It helps me to have a boundary for how much I can/should/shoulda eat. I generally stay within my target, but my first fallback defensive position is the “healthy eating range” with the WW construct (not more than ten points over or eight points under target.)
Tracking helps me to see what I’m eating relative to the volume of food I need for fuel. Absent that, I can rationalize away any single decision or blip as an aberration.
And I do double-track on WW and MFP. WW helps me see where I am relative to my boundaries, but MFP does a better job telling me about how nutritious my choices are. [/q
What Charlie said.0
