I'm actually going to do this this time.

So, last year's resolution was to start exercising. Which worked for all of about 3 weeks before I got frustrated with the fact that I wasn't losing any weight at all. The reason for that, I know now, was because I hadn't changed the way I was eating (I kept running into people telling me it was 90% diet and 10% exercise). So this year's resolution is to tackle my diet.

I think, for me, the best thing to do here is to start slow. For the last few days, I haven't really changed the types of foods I place in my body yet, but I have been using MFP to make sure that I don't go above the suggested caloric intake. I've been extremely diligent in making sure that I've been keeping track of absolutely everything that I've placed in my mouth.

Which leads me to a question: I have been guesstimating the amount of calories in some foods based on what I could find in the database (mostly by probably overestimating). Like, tonight I went to a Chinese Buffet, and I found it kind of difficult to find things that matched up to exactly what it was that I was eating, so I just added what kind of sounded like it and if there was more than one of those things listed, I picked what had the most calories to enter. Is this okay? How do you handle situations like that?