Do you plan to track for the rest of your life?

Kathy_Noring

I am still quite a way from my goal, but already thinking ahead to when I hit it. I wonder, will I always need to track to hold myself accountable? Or will I learn the right way to eat and do so instinctively?

Do you plan to continue tracking when you've hit your goal?

If you have reached your goal, do you continue to track?

AQ3107

I plan to eat everything in balance so that I can run as I love running.
I also plan to live forever. So far so good.

nmcfatter

Well, maybe not for the rest of my life, but it has become a habbit.
It makes me more aware of what I eat.
It has really helped since I have had surgery...and will be having a second in
a few weeks.
I am usually very active. I teach exercise classes. So I know that because the
Doc told me no physical exercise (ie: sit-ups, running, spinning, etc.) I have to
keep my caloric intake down.

missionimposs

I plan to track at least untill I get to goal !!!!!!!!!!! and maybe afterwards to keep me in line :bigsmile:

LoraF83

Yep.

wannatangle

I am planning to keep it up after I reach my goal. I do not want to gain it back. I used to be able to eat what I want as long as I exercise. Not anymore.

icimani

I think (hope?) a lot of it will become instinct. But for now, and I'm guessing for a long time t ime to come, I'll be tracking. It keeps me mindful.

Andrew_peter

Hopefully will have better eating/nutrition habits and true dedication to exersize by the time I get there, but thinking a weekly weigh-in to keep me in line is in order. If I have to lose 5 or 10 lbs, after ditching the 93lbs I am working on now, I figure it will be no sweat!!

danibu98

Every time I have gotten close to goal.and stopped tracking I put the weight back on, so I'm in this for the long haul.

BridgeKiki

I don't know, I haven't even thought about it!

cwolfman13

I view this as training to re learn how to intuitively eat once I reach my goal

Seajolly

No, at this point I don't even really need to track anymore, as I have a good idea of how many calories are in things. Once I get to my goal weight I plan on monitoring the scale but not tracking everything.

majope

Probably off and on. I lost 35 pounds in 2011, and kept it off by paying attention to my weight and going back to tracking when I went up a few pounds (which tends to happen twice a year: when summers get hot and I slack off on running, and when the holidays hit because NOM!). Came back in January to lose the holiday/travel weight and another chunk o' weight after that.

Should add that once I got to my stopping point last time, I did spend a few weeks tracking at maintenance just to make sure I had a feel for it. Will probably do the same this time.

efirkey

I plan on watching the scale once I hit my goal weight. If I gain 5 pounds then it is time to start counting calories again.

Timshel_

I kinda know my eating habits and levels needed to stay healthy. I will probably be off and on for life and I am good with that. Time will tell. Tracking really isn't that hard so no biggy if I do.

LadyRoff

What a great question..... I think ill probably continue to track past my goal, its so easily and simple to track on here, it has almost become a habit now!

RamaOtster

I haven't been using the app that long but the more I do the more I am finding that I already had a good idea of how much I should be eating I was just getting carried away with how much I was eating or eating the wrong things twice a day, so I don't really think I am going to need to keep track forever but I feel like I will until I get to my goal.

I do find that weighing myself regularly is helpful so I will keep doing that for the rest of my life. I think the reason I put the weight on in the first place is that I didn't have a scale so even though I was buying larger sizes of clothes I didn't realize just how much weight I had put on.

hannah_ryann

I'm with wolfman; I see this as training. Do I trust myself enough right now to stop tracking and continue this healthy lifestle? Not so much. I'll track until I get comfortable with serving sizes, portion control, etc. The overall calories I'm okay on, but measuring food out is still a big hurdle for me and I use my scale every day.

If I have to track my food for the rest of my life to be the healthy person I'm meant to be, I will. I'd like to give myself more credit than that, however. Maybe in a year from now I won't have to and I can continue to be healthy.

aliciagetshealthy

Probably not to the extent that I do now. Yes, if I'm working at specific fitness goals. No, if I'm just going about day-to-day living, but still keeping my overall eating and fitness/weight range in check. It would be more likely that I'd monitor for a week, once a month, to make sure I'm still within an acceptable range.

BarackMeLikeAHurricane

Yes. I don't plan on ever maintaining so it would be a good idea to track my calories and macros throughout the never ending bulk and cut cycles.

gabriellejayde

probably off and on, but I'm sure i'll remain aware of how many calories are in the choices i'm making.