Do you "lie" on your food diary?

No, although I get too lazy too log everything sometimes (I don't log when I feel lazy and I know for sure that I'm at least at my goal calories for the day).

I mean just because you tell some calculator on the internet that you didn't eat something it isn't going to magically disappear from your stomach...

Same here.... I do this from time to time. I also forget to add all the water I drink and complete my entry for the day. But at least I keep coming back each day and do the best I can to stay under control.

If you lie, you're only hurting yourself. If you are EVER going to be completely, 100% honest, it should be with your food diary!

The only thing I "lie" about is that I don't typically put spices on my food log. And, of course, sometimes I just have to guess at things I didn't make for myself.

Pretty much this. I don't log an occasional piece of gum , my vitamins or spices. I am a figity person who is set to sedentary because I have a desk job. I make it a point to get up several times a day to keep moving. It has worked ok for me so far. I think I would go crazy logging those little things and for me they wouldn't add up to much.

I log all of my food, that being said, i am not disciplined enough to create recipes and figure all the seasonings and olive oil in cooking, etc., so I leave room for those calories. I am also fasting through lent so I try to only eat one large meal a day and that puts me at about 900-1000. Another factor, when i am eating all meals, I am not used to eating so many calories and find it hard to find calorie dense meals sticking with my high protein and lo carb eating habbits. If you are concerned about those logging so little, don't auitomatically assume they are lying, maybe ask them instead everyone but...Just my opinion :flowerforyou:

I have a bad habit of not logging but I eat pretty close to the same thing everyday so 'if' I log, it's probably something I've changed the contents of, or it's fairly new in my diet.

Some of the people that you are seeing may have had Weight loss surgery. I try to stay under 1100 per day.

I used to just guess on how much of something I was eating or just not log that bite of this or bite of that. But I realized I was really only sabotaging my efforts. For the last 8 weeks I have logged every single thing...including the days I had 5 rum and diet cokes (ouch) or the two french fries I snagged while working the other night. I also weigh my food now.

I figure the more accurate I am then the more I can learn about my body and how it either loses or holds on to weight.

Honesty really is the best policy when it comes to this

i eat 1200 or under every day i dont binge... and i log everything infact its 6.30 pm and my diary might look empty but im actually not hungry ...

What's the point, who would you be lying to? I do know when I first started here I was averaging 900 calories a day thinking I was doing a good thing, maybe the people who log 1000 don't realise the harm they are doing :flowerforyou:

I lie about tiny things...like tic tacs...I don't log my tic tac consumption.

However under 1K cals isn't a good idea. There are plenty of people on here in various stages of eating disorders. Some are recovering, some are just starting, and most are somewhere in between.

what would the point in lying be? it's not like your body won't know if you ate crap or not. I mean I'm sure there are people who don't put it down..but it's working against them

I'm a big person eating a steady 800 calories a day because I had weight loss surgery - these people may have had the same and are not sharing that aspect of their weight loss so I wouldnt be so fast to say that they are lying.

If I snack it, I track it. Many times I turn away from nibbling on something just cause I know it will have to go in my log.

I try not to lie - because really I'd just be lying to myself so what's the point? I do forget to complete logging some days. There are alot of people who try and "diet" there way to weight loss and haven't figured out that you can't lose weight by starving yourself and stay healthy.

If I know the person then I will comment directly to them about the lack of calories and a lot of the time they will respond by logging more calories (now whether or not they truly are I will never know). At the end of the day you can be supportive but we are all responsible for our own weight.