Do you stop logging on a cheat day?

What a good idea!

You CAN see the week totals for minutes of exercise and calories burned from exercise

Log it, all of it. If it's not the truth what's the point?
That's how I see it anyway.

You should put in what you eat even on a "cheat" day because it keeps you accountable for what you eat...it's a cheat day, not a go hog wild day! Going hog wild messes up everything you did that week, why would you want to do that to yourself?

I went to the fair and said I was going to try stuff I never ate...and you know what that means...deep fried snickers, deep fried cookie dough, deep fried reeses, porkchop on a stick, chicken on a stick...I ate all that but I walked all day long! And I didn't eat all of it...I know a regular snickers is over 300 calories so I just took a couple bites;

and you can see you weekly totals in reports, but I know what you're saying - you want to be able to see something that says this weeks calories available = X and this many calories consumed = X; its a good idea but if you don't enter your calories for a day then that tool is useless!

I log everything, good or bad. In doing so, I make myself accountable for the things I am eating. It also helps me understand what I need to cut out of my diet. I can see how poorly I am eating and can associated it with certain moods, events or activities that were going on during that time.

I appreciate your persistance although the option to see weekly totals wouldn't make any difference to me, personally, at all. :indifferent:

What I don't appreciate, however, is your duplicate posts with different titles in different sections of the forum. :grumble:
Now, tell me where I can go.

I still log my cheat meal.
But I really like your idea of a weekly overview.
This would also help us on those days when we cant seem to get all of our calories in.
I like it.

I really don't understand anyone NOT logging everything they eat, at the end of the day you are just lying to yourself, which is utterly pointless. I logged my 3009 calorie anniversary meal last Friday, it was delicious and fabulous and I got a bit drunk, but I sat and worked out what I thought everything I had eaten was, I think I might even have been harsh on myself, but I wasn't going to kid myself that by not logging it on here that it somehow wouldn't count. Who does that? What is the point of being on here if you do? It's like my friends who go to Weight Watchers who don't eat all day when they are getting weighed, then eat a huge meal after as they got so hungry, then wonder why they aren't losing any weight!

Yes, I do!! It keeps me on track. It makes me feel bad to see the #'s in red, but it motivates me so see how far I have come!

I don't really have a "cheat day" but occasionally I will go over my calories for the day, usually cos I am just REALLY hungry that day, or yes I admit it I couldn't resist a snack while my skinny husband sits and eats cheese laden crumpets at 9pm sat next to me!

I still log if I go over even though I hate seeing the red figures.

I think a weekly calorie view would be useful, I may not use it often, but if it was there it would be very handy for if I ever did need to reassure myself that over the whole week I wasnt so "bad" after all.

This week for example: I got a new flavour of Ben and Jerrys Ice cream cos it was on special offer and I couldn't resist. I had already signed off my calories for the day on Monday but decided I really wanted some, so I let myself have some. Rather than go back in and add it to my calories for that day, because even though I had the calories left for it, I felt that I had finished my day and couldn't go back and "let myself down" it was a strange feeling!! so I logged it as Tuesday, but that then meant I had less calories available for that day, then I wanted some more ice-cream and logged it as Wednesday for the same reasons but it made me 450 calories over for that day, because of my previous entry. So then cos I couldn't bear that big fat red 450 figure I went back from Mon-Weds and corrected it again...... it really messed with my head! so now I am going to log everything on the day I ate it, like I used to! If I could see that over the entire week I was still within my weekly goal, then I would feel a lot better about a little slip up

I appreciate your persistance although the option to see weekly totals wouldn't make any difference to me, personally, at all. :indifferent:

What I don't appreciate, however, is your duplicate posts with different titles in different sections of the forum. :grumble:
Now, tell me where I can go.

I am sure it is completely unnecessary for me to explain that to you!

Hey I tell you what... I will give up on it because there are some people who won't use it!

There are many options on this site for different tools for different people to use. Some watch sodium, some don't. Some carbs, some don't but that does not mean we should not have them.

I have posted 3 equally relevant titles in which to reach people, with different very valid problems . I would not say I have gone too far but hey....watch this space! :bigsmile:

Yeah, okay, you missed my point which was duplicate posts are annoying & very unnecessary.

Kind of like how the majority of the people responding missed your point, I guess. :laugh:

The duplicate posts are actually trying to reach out to those people that may find this helpful but have not read some of the other posts.

You know what they are, you don't have to read them now. It has not taken too much time out of your day to have read them though, and considered an idea that may be helpful for some people. Fair enough if you do not think that it is a useful idea now but one day you may reconsider.

It would be good if people wanted, for example, to zig zag their calories.

Absolutely not! I log everything, even the 5 skittles I had to take the edge off.

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And actually, you CAN see your weekly reports. If you go to the REPORTS tab, and choose the "Nutrition" category, you can choose "Calories" as a report (Net Calories is the best way to really get a good idea as to how I am doing, because it includes exercise and the extra calories I ate as a result of exercising). This report has helped me a lot in seeing what I can improve. I noticed frmo the report that I was eating too much on the weekends (because I was eating out) and so I limited that, and it helped. Hope that helps! I know it has for me to answer questions I've had.

Thanks. I know you can see this but its not a figure but a graph, so you don't know exactly how many calories they equate to.

Yes you would know if you were over or under but not by the exact amount.

This is true...and I think it would be helpful to see weekly & monthly totals. I'll go post on your idea page