Seriously considering at stopping the logging.

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  • OhioCXgeek
    OhioCXgeek Posts: 16 Member
    Don't let the logging control you. I was like that at the beginning, feeling guilty if I went over, tearing the cupboards apart to meet the calorie goal. You are already doing the hard part, and that is eating correctly.

    For me it's the accountability like others have said. It's also the routine. If I fall out of my routine, it could lead me back to where I started. I'm a mechanic, so to me, this logging is another tool in the toolbox helping me towards my goal. If I don't need it, I don't need it. But it is a tool I use all the time, and I am in control of it.

    Hang in there! :smile:
  • sunman00
    sunman00 Posts: 872 Member
    I thought I would log forever when I was losing but having hit my goal weight & maintained for a while I took my hands off the handlebars & now haven't logged for 3 months,

    I log in every day and log my exercise so we'll see how long that lasts,

    do whatever you need to do folks, we're all reforming/ed food junkies which means we're vulnerable
  • Spiderkeys
    Spiderkeys Posts: 338 Member
    I think I've changed my mind, I've already started stacking off with the logging and suddenely gained over 3 pounds, and havent got enough infomation recorded to work out where I got wrong.

    Oh well, lesson learnt, worth the thought, and well done to anyone that successfuly has done it..
  • WW_Jude_V2
    WW_Jude_V2 Posts: 209 Member
    I think I've changed my mind, I've already started stacking off with the logging and suddenely gained over 3 pounds, and havent got enough infomation recorded to work out where I got wrong.

    Oh well, lesson learnt, worth the thought, and well done to anyone that successfuly has done it..

    Sometimes hearing things from others isn't enough, we have to see it/experience it for ourselves.

    Good for you for learning that big lesson before things went too far awry! Now you can add commentary from first hand knowledge when someone else makes a post like yours in the future. :flowerforyou:
  • Tracey_B_72
    Tracey_B_72 Posts: 1,021 Member
    I know I'm logging for life and I'm totally ok with that, when I stopped last Oct I thought I'll be ok, I went through Christmas and was ok I weighed every 2 weeks but then Jan, Feb and Mar were realky wet and miserable and I wasn't walking as far and winter comfort food was on the menu.
    By the end of Mar my jeans and work trousers were tight so I weighed, which I'd gotten slack on too, and I'd gained 6lbs so I went straight back to logging and in the last 115 days of logging I got back to maintenance and have moved my goal down another 7lbs but I'm going slowly and I've actually decided to maintain for a few weeks just to have a little break and see how maintainance feels, but I've seen how those cals can creep back on and I'm not going to be one of those people who in 5 yrs time has 30 lbs gone back on, I'm not losing weight again in my life, but I will always be accountable and know what goes into my body and I more than happy to log what I eat to keep this shape I have now.
  • toadg53
    toadg53 Posts: 302 Member
    I am almost at goal weight and plan to keep logging in the rest of my life. Food and calories have a habit of doing sneaky stealth attacks on humans, and I have no intention of letting that happen again.

    Took the words right out of my mouth ... I am close to goal also, and I plan to continue logging on mfp and in my little "book" daily. That is the only way I can even conceive of keeping the weight off is to rely on keeping track of what going in for food and what goes out by exercise. I am sorry for myself, cuz I can't trust myself, and I will NOT go back or slip back to where I was.

    I applaud you though, OP, if you can do it without keeping daily track ... more power to you. I just know that I, and it sounds like a lot of other people, can't.
  • toadg53
    toadg53 Posts: 302 Member
    I think I've changed my mind, I've already started stacking off with the logging and suddenely gained over 3 pounds, and havent got enough infomation recorded to work out where I got wrong.

    Oh well, lesson learnt, worth the thought, and well done to anyone that successfuly has done it..

    Oh happy day ... another successful end to a post :))
  • jofjltncb6
    jofjltncb6 Posts: 34,415 Member
    I think I've changed my mind, I've already started stacking off with the logging and suddenely gained over 3 pounds, and havent got enough infomation recorded to work out where I got wrong.

    Oh well, lesson learnt, worth the thought, and well done to anyone that successfuly has done it..

    Personally, I'm not convinced that +3 isn't a step in the right direction...but only you can decide whether or not this is true for you. Either way, logging will give you the data you need to make a more informed decision about what to do next.

    Whatever you decide, best of luck.
  • maria_antoinette
    maria_antoinette Posts: 239 Member
    Every single time i stop logging.. I GAIN weight.. ug.. so like maybe i stop for a few days or a week or 2.... but at least i should check in once a week or 2 weeks and if my weight went up. i just start logging again..
  • kmerrick1
    kmerrick1 Posts: 1
    I haven't done this for long, but I truly love logging in. I not only see what calories I have left. I can also enter in my exercise and see how I am doing on this and that. I also love it because I can see what foods are the best for me. This is just my opinion.
  • NCDJ2013
    NCDJ2013 Posts: 43 Member
    Well good luck with that. Logging is the only thing that reins me in and stops me from eating too much.
  • Nikkisfitblog
    Nikkisfitblog Posts: 149 Member
    If I didnt track, I would overeat fats, and be to scared to eat the quantity of carbs I currently eat, even though the changes on my composition have been sensational, I would just have no way to gauge it.
  • KristinKory
    KristinKory Posts: 91 Member
    If you feel you no longer need to log/it's just not working for you then you must do what is right for you. For me, I feel I have my eating under control, however, I feel I would slowly begin to slip into my old habits again so I'm probably in this for the long haul.
  • kwantlen2051
    kwantlen2051 Posts: 455 Member
    I think constant logging in the long-term just slows down your metabolism, keeps you feeling cold and miserable, and even unplanned weight loss.

    Sorry but how does logging slow down your metabolism? If you feel its not right for you, go ahead and stop logging. Find something else that works for you.
    As for me, logging keeps me accountable. When I don't log, I find I miscalculate my calorie count.
  • LITtlerMeCO
    LITtlerMeCO Posts: 130 Member
    I think constant logging in the long-term just slows down your metabolism, keeps you feeling cold and miserable, and even unplanned weight loss.

    How would logging your food slow down your metabolism??? Or lead to an unplanned weight loss??? Assuming, of course, that you're eating to an appropriate daily surplus of calories.

    Letting your body tell you when it's time to eat, and not your diary.

    Anyway my eating habits have changed completely, I eat completely different foods these days, im happy with it, it's just common sense how to control your eating habitswhen you do when you been already been logging for over 200 days like me.

    I know WHEN my body wants to eat, logging helps me see if I'm feeding it what it NEEDS. I just got back from a two week trip and when I didn't have access to the Internet I wrote down what I ate. I'm now entering in everything I had and there were a few days I came ->thisclose<- to going over and one day I completely misjudged the calories on something (I was thinking about 700 or 800 and because I had worked out that day I "knew" I was okay calorie-wise, turns out it was 1090, eek). I've been doing this for 112 days and I still need the program.
  • marquishagetaka
    marquishagetaka Posts: 322
    I wanted to quit too, but I keep doing it, really reminds me of the obscene amounts of unhealthy foods I have eaten.

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