Are you 100% honest with your food diary?
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I even log gum.0
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When I first started mfp I logged EVERYTHING! I was obsessed with logging lol. I would log spices, non-calorie items like gum and splenda, etc. Now that I'm maintaining, I let a few things slide ie a bite of someone's dessert or a sip of wine. Nothing major though! If it's an entire glass of wine...I log it.0
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Yep. I log it all but the data in MFP is not exactly accurate. There is a lot of inaccurate data. So, I am not totally confident in the numbers but it all gets logged.0
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It really depends. I've been struggling with bingeing lately, and I've got a bad habit of not logging when I do that. Part of my increased diligence and commitment includes logging even the bad days.
That said, I don't log every single spice or condiment, especially since my husband does most of the cooking! But I also haven't been logging all my exercise, just letting the Fitbit log the activity, so I'm pretty sure I'm underestimating exercise calories as well. On a normal, non-bingey day, I figure it evens out.0 -
Yes. That is the point. The point is not convenience or ease.The point is to lose weight (for those here to lose). Keeping shoddy records of my calories is not going to help. Estimating and omitting is a slippery slope I tend to stay away from. I know at one point I was forgetting things until much later, but even then I would go back and add it. Being scared that I would eat something and forget completely one day. I started utilizing the fact that MFP is on my phone which is always on or near me and take the few extra moments to log things right away. Especially the odd bits and pieces...way easier to remember a meal.
With all that being said. During my vacation I hardly logged. :ohwell: ...I maintained my same weight. It was dissapointing, but still not nearly as bad as gaining anything back!0 -
Mostly.
I will log the 20 buffalo wings with blur cheese dressing, or similar crazy things I shouldn't be eating.
But I don't bother with condiments or spices. And I don't bother with things that are under 20 cals as long as I'm not overdoing it on them. For instance, I've been on a sugar-free jello kick lately and I make them jiggler style in ice cube trays. 4 cubes comes out to 20 cals. I don't log that, unless I've had a few more servings and it starts adding up.0 -
Everything good or bad! "I bite it, I write it!"0
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i am honest... for me its about accountability! I just purchased a food scale & it has really made a huge difference for me. This is really about you - you would only be cheating yourself - Be in it to WIN it. 8)0
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Absolutely---that's why my diary is closed. I am totally accountable to me.0
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Absolutely everything.0
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I try to be... yes!0
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What do you do when you don't know how many cals it is? Occasionally I eat out or oder takeout, and I never know how to log it.
Are you only eating foods that you know the exact calories in?0 -
Yes, 100% honest0
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<----Logs in everything but gum and mints.0
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The only thing I don't log is if a take a sip out of the milk carton or something of that nature.0
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What do you do when you don't know how many cals it is? Occasionally I eat out or order takeout, and I never know how to log it.
Are you only eating foods that you know the exact calories in?
I find something that's similar. There's no way to be completely exact, but if you log everything you can and make educated guesses about the rest, then you can at least look back and get an idea of what you were doing when you were successful and when you were not.0 -
Absolutely! The only person I would be cheating is myself, if I didn't.
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Yep
except when it comes to the end of the day or something and I know how many macros whatever I'm eating has and know it fits, I sometimes don't bother putting it down.
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Every single calorie! I measure on my food scale and enter the exact amount. Woop some extra work involved but pays off
Yup0 -
Mostly.....except for items like black tea or 0 cal gum and mints. But everything else I am deligent with. I weigh and measure everything as well!!0
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