do you ever read someones trackings......

hxcburrito
hxcburrito Posts: 31
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and think its a lie, or a stupid thing to track..........


or am i just being a a**hole

i see some things and it irritates the hell out of me, that someone would track certain things, or you see something, and you can tell it doesnt seem tracked right
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  • hbrittingham
    hbrittingham Posts: 2,518 Member
    I think I could answer if I had a clue what you are talking about.
  • ScatteredThoughts
    ScatteredThoughts Posts: 3,562 Member
    Are you talking about their food diary, or something else?
  • ProjectTae
    ProjectTae Posts: 434 Member
    Sometimes I think things look a little off, for example you're on the treadmill for 5 minutes and you burned 250 calories lol, but I give them the benefit of doubt (maybe they're doing it on super high intensity), but I don't particularly have an opinion on miniscule logging like warm up stretches (which I myself log... hey 10 calories!) Assuming you're referring to exercise trackings.
  • dinosnopro
    dinosnopro Posts: 2,177 Member
    5,000 calories vacuuming?..............seem legit :laugh:
  • ProjectTae
    ProjectTae Posts: 434 Member
    10,000 sq ft house? :laugh:
  • JustJennie1
    JustJennie1 Posts: 3,749 Member
    I don't really pay attention to be onset.

    As far as food goes I try to track everything so someone might see a piece of candy or my copious amounts of alcohol that's consume on the weekends. Sometimes I will track house cleaning if it's an intense clean and I sweat.
  • abnerner
    abnerner Posts: 452 Member
    I don't really pay attention to be onset.

    As far as food goes I try to track everything so someone might see a piece of candy or my copious amounts of alcohol that's consume on the weekends. Sometimes I will track house cleaning if it's an intense clean and I sweat.

    ^ Agree with this.
  • delilah47
    delilah47 Posts: 1,658
    and you even care because?
  • usmcmp
    usmcmp Posts: 21,219 Member
    I think the thing that annoys me is seeing when someone tracks something like calcium. If they are that worried they don't get enough take a vitamin.
  • ImSoPerfectlyFlawed
    ImSoPerfectlyFlawed Posts: 127 Member
    5,000 calories vacuuming?..............seem legit :laugh:

    :laugh:
  • misscristie
    misscristie Posts: 643 Member
    This is why my diary is private.
  • KellyKAG
    KellyKAG Posts: 418
    I feel that way when I see someone has put in cutting the grass with a ride lawnmower as exercise. I dont know why but it makes me nuts.
  • mbajrami
    mbajrami Posts: 636 Member
    My sister owned a bar and every cleaning person she hired ended up stealing from her, so I started doing it. I have continued to do it every 2 weeks even though she sold it.

    The entry in the database for cleaning says that I burn over 1000 calories if I'm there 3 1/2 hours, which seems like a lot. I don't have an HRM so I go by the entry. It's 3 1/2 hrs of really intense cleaning, heavy lifting, and almost the entire time is spent mopping and changing out mop water (lifting a full mop bucket twice every 10min or so), so I'm pretty sure it's a legit calorie count.

    So, yeah, some things might seem ridiculous...but ya never know.
  • Loves418
    Loves418 Posts: 330 Member
    I don't judge because I don't want to be judged. I am not here for that. I am here for support and the great tools this site offers for free.
  • SergeantSunshine_reused
    SergeantSunshine_reused Posts: 5,382 Member
    I think the thing that annoys me is seeing when someone tracks something like calcium. If they are that worried they don't get enough take a vitamin.

    O.o and why would this annoy you?

    Calcium is important in bone strength, bone density, helps prevent osteoporosis, possibly reduces blood pressure, and many more things. Something that would be a good thing to track if you aren't getting enough since not everyone wants to supplement.

    Or maybe they should just trackz teh sodium cuz not the evil water weightz!!
  • sunkisses
    sunkisses Posts: 2,365 Member
    You have 18 friends. I think the one you're referring to might catch on.
  • neverlost
    neverlost Posts: 121 Member
    My sister owned a bar and every cleaning person she hired ended up stealing from her, so I started doing it. I have continued to do it every 2 weeks even though she sold it.

    The entry in the database for cleaning says that I burn over 1000 calories if I'm there 3 1/2 hours, which seems like a lot. I don't have an HRM so I go by the entry. It's 3 1/2 hrs of really intense cleaning, heavy lifting, and almost the entire time is spent mopping and changing out mop water (lifting a full mop bucket twice every 10min or so), so I'm pretty sure it's a legit calorie count.

    So, yeah, some things might seem ridiculous...but ya never know.

    I must be tired because I read this as you started stealing from your sister, and continued to steal from her every two weeks. Glad i figured out that you were just cleaning the bar.
  • theoriginaljayne
    theoriginaljayne Posts: 559 Member
    Two things I've seen have stood out to me:

    Logging 300 calories' worth of "chewing gum." No, not in the food diary -- under cardio.

    And wait for it... wait for it... "So-and-so burned 9715 calories doing 2110 minutes of cardio exercises."
    I spent quite a bit of time wondering how they could have worked out for thirty-five hours in a single day, and came to the conclusion that they possess a Time-Turner.
  • mbajrami
    mbajrami Posts: 636 Member
    My sister owned a bar and every cleaning person she hired ended up stealing from her, so I started doing it. I have continued to do it every 2 weeks even though she sold it.

    The entry in the database for cleaning says that I burn over 1000 calories if I'm there 3 1/2 hours, which seems like a lot. I don't have an HRM so I go by the entry. It's 3 1/2 hrs of really intense cleaning, heavy lifting, and almost the entire time is spent mopping and changing out mop water (lifting a full mop bucket twice every 10min or so), so I'm pretty sure it's a legit calorie count.

    So, yeah, some things might seem ridiculous...but ya never know.


    HAHAH! NEVER! It DID read like that though. Oopsie!

    I must be tired because I read this as you started stealing from your sister, and continued to steal from her every two weeks. Glad i figured out that you were just cleaning the bar.
  • newmrswood
    newmrswood Posts: 167 Member
    I do have a friend on here that puts ridiculous calorie amounts burned!!! I honesty think they either do it for attention or set their life activity too low and counting everything they do.
  • pudadough
    pudadough Posts: 1,271 Member
    Nothing annoys me about anyone else's tracking. I'm too concerned about my own. If I even look at someone else's diary, it's out of pure curiosity or occasionally to get ideas about what other things I could integrate into my own diet. Usually if they track something like calcium, I'm impressed by their attention to detail more than anything.
  • usmcmp
    usmcmp Posts: 21,219 Member
    I think the thing that annoys me is seeing when someone tracks something like calcium. If they are that worried they don't get enough take a vitamin.

    O.o and why would this annoy you?

    Calcium is important in bone strength, bone density, helps prevent osteoporosis, possibly reduces blood pressure, and many more things. Something that would be a good thing to track if you aren't getting enough since not everyone wants to supplement.

    Or maybe they should just trackz teh sodium cuz not the evil water weightz!!

    I have only seen one person do it and she took a supplement. She tracked calories, carbs, sodium and calcium. It just annoyed me.
  • luv_lea
    luv_lea Posts: 1,094 Member
    You have 18 friends. I think the one you're referring to might catch on.

    This made me LOL.
  • Diary_Queen
    Diary_Queen Posts: 1,314 Member
    Not that my two cents is worth a whole lot on this matter... and it has irked me in the past, but some people tracking calcium are doing so for a reason. I take a vitamin supplement but I'm also lactose intolerant and have a thyroid condition that causes my calcium absorption to be extremely low. I just gotta get more more more... and more vitamin D as well. I dont track it here because Im more worried about my sodium levels... but my dr does want to keep an eye on calcium levels. Better to be making an attempt an be able to learn from a mistake than to sit on your butt eating tater chips and doing jack squat
  • Girlwithnoname77
    Girlwithnoname77 Posts: 108 Member
    This is why my diary is private.

    Don't blame you after seeing this post! Wow. I wouldn't him on my support team! Isn't that what this is all about? How dare anyone judge what other people track. My first two weeks I tracked what I was eating normally. That may be a shock to some to see but it helped me see the countless calories in things that I just didn't need.

    So, no ... I don't! I look at other people's tracking for inspiration and ideas.
  • Girlwithnoname77
    Girlwithnoname77 Posts: 108 Member
    I don't judge because I don't want to be judged. I am not here for that. I am here for support and the great tools this site offers for free.

    Here, here sister! :D
  • Girlwithnoname77
    Girlwithnoname77 Posts: 108 Member
    My sister owned a bar and every cleaning person she hired ended up stealing from her, so I started doing it. I have continued to do it every 2 weeks even though she sold it.

    The entry in the database for cleaning says that I burn over 1000 calories if I'm there 3 1/2 hours, which seems like a lot. I don't have an HRM so I go by the entry. It's 3 1/2 hrs of really intense cleaning, heavy lifting, and almost the entire time is spent mopping and changing out mop water (lifting a full mop bucket twice every 10min or so), so I'm pretty sure it's a legit calorie count.

    So, yeah, some things might seem ridiculous...but ya never know.

    I must be tired because I read this as you started stealing from your sister, and continued to steal from her every two weeks. Glad i figured out that you were just cleaning the bar.

    LOL! SO DID I! Had to read it a few times, lol.
  • Nikki_42
    Nikki_42 Posts: 298 Member
    I don't judge because I don't want to be judged. I am not here for that. I am here for support and the great tools this site offers for free.

    ^^This. I look at tracking because it's fun and interesting and I get ideas of new things to do/eat. (hello frozen greek yogurt which I bought but can't quite get myself to try yet)

    I can't imagine getting annoyed by someone else's diary. :ohwell:
  • ElizabethRoad
    ElizabethRoad Posts: 5,138 Member
    I think the thing that annoys me is seeing when someone tracks something like calcium. If they are that worried they don't get enough take a vitamin.

    O.o and why would this annoy you?

    Calcium is important in bone strength, bone density, helps prevent osteoporosis, possibly reduces blood pressure, and many more things. Something that would be a good thing to track if you aren't getting enough since not everyone wants to supplement.

    Or maybe they should just trackz teh sodium cuz not the evil water weightz!!

    I have only seen one person do it and she took a supplement. She tracked calories, carbs, sodium and calcium. It just annoyed me.
    So you're saying if she was worried about it she should have taken a supplement. Which is exactly what she was doing.
  • Coltz84
    Coltz84 Posts: 3 Member
    What is the point of tracking you calories burned if it gives them all back to you to eat with. So my diary looks like i NEVER workout, yet do daily somehow, rather its parking at the longest lane at the mall or doing an actual workout on dvd.

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