Do you "lie" on your food diary?

Nope. I log everything I put into my mouth.

I don't because I am only lying to myself... I try to eat right and stay under or at the calories, but I'm not perfect and there are days that I don't.

even though I am new to MFP, and only a couple days here, I have already been warned that I am not eating enough and my body could go into starvation mode, making it harder to loose. Maybe they dont understand it and continue to eat less to loose more, which wont be the case. I know that was always my problem with Diets and is why I am so excited to learn to eat the right way with MFP.

I would love to lie about that Steak & Shake Mushroom Swiss burger that I had yesterday!!! But I didn't and it was over 900 calories!! I was still within my calories because I was "forced" to grab fast food because I hadn't eaten anything since breakfast and it was 3:00 pm. Then I didn't eat anything after that either and I had worked out that morning!!! :blushing:

My first wheat (or other grain) product in over two months!!

I try to over calculate the calories I eat so I know I'm within the deficit. If I had a cup of yogurt I'll say I had one and a quarter. Things like that. Often I log around 1,000 calories a day... which because I'm a healthy eater can be a pretty significant amount of food. Sometimes it's 1300 sometimes 1700, but most days 1000. The only thing I can think of that I forget to log usually is my coffee but I drink it black so that's about 8 calories which is usually covered anyway from over logging something else. I do have friends that don't log their cheat days, but since they consider it their day off they don't feel they should. They're in good shape so I don't feel it's causing them any harm.

I don't lie, but there are days I purposely go 'Off Track" and don't log. I have plenty of +700 calories days though.

SOmetimes it's scary (and daunting and quite a chore as well) to log a bad day of calories. If I get off track, I find that I start obssessing too much over the numbers and then the stress alone packs on pounds. So thats why Ive started eating intuitively, and log my calories at the end of the day (once or twice a week, just to see how much ive eaten), rather than track calories and plan my meals around them.

I don't lie, but sometimes if I know I am not going to go over my calories for the day then I get lazy and don't log dinner. That is also why I keep my diary private, so people don't ask questions!

I don't lie on mine. I am brutally honest even when it hurts.

I need to get here ^^^

I don't lie but my weekends are my weakness and I tend to not log because I know I've been bad and feel guilty about it. I need to log even if I do go over my calories....that is my challenge for the rest of this month...log even if it's the weekend and even if I eat horribly....I'm good at getting back on track once Monday starts....but I want to be healthy on the weeknds too....

thank you for saying this. You have made my mind "click"

No I don't lie on it. Kind of defeats the purpose of tracking. I don't see how anyone can function on 900 cals!! . I would think that they have absolutely "0" energy.

"If you bite it, Write it" I record it all.

And I am one of those people who consume under 1000 calories a day, under a doctor's supervision, Don't judge other members intake, you might not know the details.

I'll occasionally put something I ate today on tomorrow's log, but I always log. My weekly net calories remain the same, either way.

Dont lie either. There are times where I forget to post but the next morning I weigh myself and I am still progressing in the wanted directions I don't worry about it...I do put in the exercise even if I don't do the food. Can others see my eating posts?

The only time I lie is if I OVERestimate my calories logged and UNDERestimate the calories burned log. I find it easy to not get above 1200 net calories because I have a protein shake after my exercise and I drink most of my fluids until 3 or4 pm. That keeps me satiated for most of the day. it allows me to have a nice supper with great portions and lots of odds and ends at night before bed. Most days I cannot squeeze the leftover calories of the day in before bed, so I routinely net less than 1200. some days I don't even get to 1200 eaten , let alone net. I have tried to cut out as much bread, pasta and rice as possible and eat as low-cal as i can. in the 40+ days I have been on here, I have eaten rice and pasta once. i haven't even gone through an entire loaf of diet briead yet. I try to eat the least calorie-dense foods as I can, which means I eat basically plain chicken breast and lots of broccoli, green beans, cauliflower, and carrots. Needless to say, things are getting a BIT boring, so I am slowly adding more calorie-dense foods like sauces/gravies and have added some of the lower-cal tortillas. Tonight I am making a meatball/turkey bacon/turkey pepperoni, red pepper/onion and cheese mini-pizza on the tortilla.

I find calories are like a paycheck: I never have been one to get paid friday and by saturday night I am broke. I wait until I cannot wait any longer to spend my money, and I do the same with calories. I would rather go to bed full and eat 1200 cal or less the entire day than eat 3 meals of 400 calories and only have little bit left for after supper and I use it and I go to bed hungry or be forced to consistantly eat past my alotted calories.

But I also realize that I am not exactly doing it healthiest way and I am working on it LOL!

Sometimes towards the end of the day, if I know my calories are about right, I don't bother to physically log it. I wonder if that may be what's happening with the diaries you (OP) are seeing? For instance, if I'd eaten 1000 calories and my next meal took me up to my goal, I wouldn't need to log that meal - I'd know I'd eaten it and not to eat any more that day. But my diary would look as if I'd only eaten 1000.

I keep my diary private for many reasons, but one reason is so that I don't get tempted to make it look "better" for other people - it's only me who's going to see it, so it's easier to be honest!