To log or not to log...?

cardbucfan

It depends. If I'm just going out for a special meal with my buddies or Hubs, I guesstimate and do my best to log it all good or bad. However, there are the rare occassions when I can't be bothered. Say I'm away from home spending time with good friends and/or family, I don't want to spend a bunch of time on the computer or my phone trying to log things that aren't the usual and anaylzing recipes so I just make the best choices I can food-wise, get in some activity and hope it works out in the end. The most important thing IMHO is getting right back on track when you do get back to normal life.

Most of the time a random cheat meal isn't going to mess up your progress too much but it may affect the scale for a few days due to high sodium and they are easy to forget a week or so later if you don't at least log something (like a food diary note saying "away from home, not logging)

This^^. There are days I just go overboard but if I'm at home and really know what I had, I log it or make a best guess. But this weekend we have a big event where I will be gone all day, eating every single meal out (and all buffets!) so I'm not even going to attempt it. I am sure I will be over for that day but I've worked out like a fiend the past two weeks gearing up for it so there won't be much damage. And I will be tight back at it on Monday. (Pretty sure I will need Sunday as a "rest" day!)