Skip A Weekend Day or Two-Without Logging Food Diary

I log everyday usually (tho I don't need to since never been overweight, just an ocd thing), and I find personally that there is usually a slight spike in weight for the following few days after being more relaxed about my eating over the weekend, but it goes away again. For me, it is because I don't touch bready stuff during the weekdays, and do at the weekend.

I do. I started with one weekend day a week when I realized that even with all the debauchery and indulgence at a bachelorette party, it didn't affect my weekly progress (I did log that night), so a normal weekend day wasn't going to hurt, either. I was pretty close to my goal when I started that, though.

When I reached my initial goal weight, I started taking both weekend days off (and holidays, vacation, etc.), and I'm still doing that a year and almost four months later.

For me, it's not a matter of "Weeeee!!!!!! I'm not logging my food! I can eat EVERYTHING!!!!!!!!!" Because I typically eat about 2000 calories a day anyway, so I'm not terribly limited in my choices. It's just a break from thinking about food so much. It's the ability to go out to eat without checking the nutritional information online first, to grab a handful of pretzels and munch on them instead of carefully counting out an exact portion, to just eat and snack normally.

I'm not there yet. Once I reach my goal weight, it's my intention to only log Monday-Friday. This is my opinion, though...if you are still in the "learning phase" - portion size, control, etc. - I think weighing everything you can and logging all of your food is critical to seeing consistent results.

Thinking about doing this! Especially on Saturday brunch :drinker: or Sunday Brunch days:bigsmile:
Anybody do this without repercussions --such as a sudden spike on the next weigh-in?
Does it feel freeing? Or is it more stable to log in every thing --everyday?

I log everything every day. I have forgotten to close it up for the day so it never shows how many days I've really been on MFP but I do write everything down. I find it freeing to write what I eat every day.

My birthday is this weekend and I would love to just enjoy the time with my friends and family and not worry about tracking and counting but I'm terrified I'll gain back the 4 lbs I've lost since joining 4 weeks ago :sad:

I give myself one cheat day a week, but I still log it. Unless I get really nuts with it, I don't think it really affects my progress too much, but it makes a BIG difference in my ability to avoid eating anything I shouldn't be the rest of the week. I find it pretty easy to stay away from whatever junk I'm craving, knowing that if I still want it at the end of the week, I can have it then. When cheat day rolls around I sometimes add the food before I eat it, so that I have to face up to the calories and feel sure that it's worth it. So in the end I end I don't feel like I cheated myself either way.

I've done it when I'm out of the house or something...I'm one of those people without a smart phone, so I have to log in on my computer. I make an effort to log my food consumption even on cheat days, or even on days when I couldnt resist pigging out. MFP has been a good tool for me, probably in large part because I am so strict about logging everything.

Even on days that I have a cheat meal or a cheat day I still log everything I eat. No point in ignoring what you're eating just because it's outside of my calories and macros.

I usually do see a spike in my weight the next day that typically takes about a week to get back to what it was prior to the cheat. And since I track my weight daily in a spreadsheet with my calories burned and calories eaten, it doesn't make sense to eliminate one of those factors in my tracking.