Continuing to log food intake

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angsd87167
angsd87167 Posts: 1 Member
edited July 28 in Introduce Yourself

it’s so discouraging sometimes when I think I’ve actually done a good job staying in my calorie intake range and seeing that I’ve still gone over.

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  • yakkystuff
    yakkystuff Posts: 1,381 Member

    Hi, welcome

    So hear that.

    Have you tried pre-logging or when you eat? I like to snap a pic if I can't log 'til later...

    Takes a few days for my appetite to catch on... actually a few weeks, never seems like enough sometimes - a big chopped salad/veggies helps then.

  • AnnPT77
    AnnPT77 Posts: 37,343 Community Helper

    In addition, anytime we eat below our current weight maintenance calories, we can expect to lose weight, even if we ate above our weight loss goal calories. The loss would just be a little slower.

    Slow but achievable loss is better than fast loss that requires unhappiness-creating tactics.

    Why? Because we can stick with it long enough to lose all the way to our goal. Finding those achievable tactics also helps us stay at goal weight long term, which is the real golden prize here IMO.

    It can take time to figure out the best personalized achievable tactics, and that's okay. Don't beat yourself up: That burns no extra calories and feels icky.

    As long as you keep chipping away at finding your own best personal plan, you'll succeed. Only giving up the effort results in not reaching your goal.

    Best wishes!

  • springlering62
    springlering62 Posts: 9,863 Member
    edited July 29

    you didn’t learn to drive in a day, read in a week, or get a degree in a month.

    And you know what? In none of those did you have social media or magazines hurling conflicting information, trendy fads, and outright falsehoods at you that you had to fight through, too.

    Give yourself time and grace to learn to do this properly.

    I am The Worst for wanting instant gratification, results yesterday.

    I am so grateful that I listened to others here, forced myself to slow down, read and absorb, make thoughtful choices, and most of all, prepare and plan for maintenance.

    I have maintained a loss of ten (!!!) clothing sizes for almost six years now. I’m more energetic, confident, happier with myself.

    Please, like I said, allow yourself the time and grace to do this, including the inevitable frustrations til you get over the hump.

  • nossmf
    nossmf Posts: 14,793 Member

    I suggest also verifying the calorie content of the food entries you are using against an independent reliable source. Do not just assume the entry in MFP is correct, as many are at least a little off, some drastically so. For example, I recently learned that a food entry I have been trusting for years here on MFP was about 250 calories higher than reality, according to USDA sources, meaning when I ate it I was in fact eating fewer calories than I had been assuming all this time. The same could be true for one (or more) of your entries also.

  • springlering62
    springlering62 Posts: 9,863 Member
    edited July 29
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    then there’s those entries that are just plain fantasy entries….


    Babka is a sort of rich, buttery pastry/bread. 500 grams would be equivalent to 1.1 pounds of something like cinnamon rolls.

    100 calories?

    In what world?

  • AnnPT77
    AnnPT77 Posts: 37,343 Community Helper
    https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/comment/48706444#Comment_48706444

    LOL!

    500g of just plain raw apple is more than twice that many calories - around 260.

    Some of that fantasy babka must be made out of anti-matter. 😉

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