Food Diaries: Open or Closed?

I keep mine closed just in case someone decides to be an *kitten*. It's my business what I eat, not theirs. I do, however, keep my exercise open to anyone who wants to view it.

I go back and forth between open and closed (LOL!) sometimes because I like this site for the support and the self-tracking but I'm generally a somewhat private person. Also i had stomach surgery some years ago to repair a bleeding ulcer that wouldn't heal, so I don't hold or eat as much as the average person. the fact that I chronically eat under the calorie limit seems to bother some people (not that I care) but I don't want to hear about it. I eat a LOT of veggies which have very little calories so I'm eating enough but it just doesn't add up to much....... also a poor girl put a post out there recently about how eating Paleo has helped her lose weight and feel great, etc and some b*tch felt the need to review her diary and post every thing she's eaten that doesn't conform to "Paleo", not realizing that we are all human and the girl is trying to eat as close to Paleo as she can, cut her some slack she's trying and it's obviously working for her. I've found, unfortunately, that some people on here are less than supportive and are downright mean.... but the anonimity of the inter-web seems to give people way bigger balls than they would have in real life... maybe this is their outlet because they lack any power at home, who knows. There are some very positive and great people on here who are wonderful too... which is why we stick around :bigsmile: hope that helps answer your question a wee bit! I think I'll close my diary now before someone sees I ate a cupcake in August........

Mine was closed since I signed up, but I had several people ask me to open it. I did (friends only), but I realize a lot of people only want to criticize. As soon as you open your diary, you open yourself up to more criticism. I love getting ideas and seeing what people have had to eat during the day, but I'm sure they are well aware of the choices they made during the day (good and bad) so I don't criticize. Some people, however, feel the need to criticize even if the only thing they can find is that someone was under their goal by a couple calories...

Personally, I keep mine closed to keep me honest. I can be a bit of a repetitive eater and also have been prone to binging (although I am slowly, slowly starting to get that under control). I think if my diary was opened, I might feel less inclined to log the 'bad bits'. Besides, I know what I SHOULD be doing, eating/calorie wise, so I'm not really looking for advice in such a specific respect. Just my two cents:-)

Mine was closed because I signed up via the app. Once I started going online I found out I could change it to open so I opened it up only to my friends because I've seen way too many attacks on those who ask questions and ask for support. Usually things like how do you expect to lose weight when you eat xyz. So for that reason I have my diary set to friends only.

I keep mine closed for the 'standard reason' I don't care to defend my food diary to strangers. This is after all the age of the "Interweebs" (yes, I did that deliberately) and people are rude, nasty and hateful...I will share this, I don't have access to a computer during the day at work, so I often just lump everything I've eaten into one meal, this I've done even when I was with Weight Watchers 10+ years ago. It's faster, simpler easier AND I don't get pissed off at tracking all the food/exercise. (I *seriously* got fed up with counting points w/WW one day and threw my book(s) and pencil across the room, I much prefer straight calorie counts, plus it's a way to test how accurate I am with my 'guessing')

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I go back and forth between open and closed (LOL!) sometimes because I like this site for the support and the self-tracking but I'm generally a somewhat private person. Also i had stomach surgery some years ago to repair a bleeding ulcer that wouldn't heal, so I don't hold or eat as much as the average person. the fact that I chronically eat under the calorie limit seems to bother some people (not that I care) but I don't want to hear about it. I eat a LOT of veggies which have very little calories so I'm eating enough but it just doesn't add up to much....... also a poor girl put a post out there recently about how eating Paleo has helped her lose weight and feel great, etc and some b*tch felt the need to review her diary and post every thing she's eaten that doesn't conform to "Paleo", not realizing that we are all human and the girl is trying to eat as close to Paleo as she can, cut her some slack she's trying and it's obviously working for her. I've found, unfortunately, that some people on here are less than supportive and are downright mean.... but the anonimity of the inter-web seems to give people way bigger balls than they would have in real life... maybe this is their outlet because they lack any power at home, who knows. There are some very positive and great people on here who are wonderful too... which is why we stick around :bigsmile: hope that helps answer your question a wee bit! I think I'll close my diary now before someone sees I ate a cupcake in August........

Love this.

I keep mine closed. We have a lot of Ph.D's in Broscience on MFP.

If I wanted advice on what to eat, I'd see a licensed nutritionist in real life, not take advice from whackadoodles on the interwebs.

Love this!


Me too Jax xxx