Quitting food logging???

samrockrocks

i quit logging FOUR MONTHS AGO and i haven't gained a pound. so for those naysayers out there that it didn't work for them.. it would seem you didn't learn enough by logging your food to begin with.

How lovely it must be to be perfect...

i am far from perfect but i'm glad you enjoy your own form of humor.

emmab0902

i quit logging FOUR MONTHS AGO and i haven't gained a pound. so for those naysayers out there that it didn't work for them.. it would seem you didn't learn enough by logging your food to begin with.

How lovely it must be to be perfect...

i am far from perfect but i'm glad you enjoy your own form of humor.

I see logging as a temporary tool and have already started phasing it out.

41degsouth

I figure it isn't an all or nothing thing. Start by having some days where you don't log the food during the day (if you were) and instead log at the end of they day, so you can begin to see if you're eating the right amount of food even when you're not logging it as you go. When that is working well, start only logging 5 days a week, or every second day. During this period you of course keep monitoring your weight, and measuring other key things (e.g. waistline, chest measurement, whatever). So there is no risk whatsoever of putting on 20 pounds, or 80 pounds, as some reported happened here. Clearly that can only occur if you not only stop logging calories, but also stop tracking your maintenance of your progress. Eventually, you could move down to just logging random days to ensure that you're still calibrated OK. As long as your waistline isn't changing, and your weight is making sense (e.g. if you're building muscle, it's going up) then you're obviously fine. As soon as you see your weight change more than just your normal fluctuations (e.g. maybe more than 5lb?) then you know you may need a refresher.

Each to their own. Some people may choose to manage their long term progress by logging calories. But I would always encourage creative curiousity about any black-or-white belief like "I can never stop logging calories if I want to stay at my target weight". While keeping on logging may be a good choice for some people, it's unlikely that it is the *only* way this could be achieved.

samrockrocks

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I see logging as a temporary tool and have already started phasing it out.
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i agree. i used logging as a way to open my eyes to all the crap and calories i was putting into my body without even realizing it. once i learned how many calories was in everything i ate, i learned to manage my intake better. that's the point! i'm glad you view it as a temporary tool. as i said before, i would try not logging but still step on the scale every so often to keep yourself in check.

blueham5

Quitting logging is worth a try. I know for the brief period in which I logged calories on MFP, I was stressed out and would get anxious if I was just over my calorie limit. I thought too much about various foods and the amount of calories in it. Now I just try to eat clean and eat til I'm 70% full. It's definitely working out for me - losing 0.5-1lb per week.