Are you 100% honest with your food diary?

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  • SwimFan1981
    SwimFan1981 Posts: 1,430 Member
    Yep, I'm over 1000 cals over today due to a hangover :drinker:
  • Derpinaaa
    Derpinaaa Posts: 70 Member
    Nah. I log things as best I can, even if that means going over my limit, but I won't add things like hot sauce or a sip of someone's soda or sandwich. Or a Crystal Light drink or gum. So my diary can probably vary from about 50-150 calories each day. I'm not too worried about it.
  • x3BeccaBearx3
    x3BeccaBearx3 Posts: 24 Member
    Id say Im about 95% honest. i measure whatever i can, but dont have a food scale but i estimate as closely as i can.
  • junebaby21
    junebaby21 Posts: 260 Member
    I even log gum.
  • NicLiving
    NicLiving Posts: 261 Member
    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.
  • jlemesur
    jlemesur Posts: 10 Member
    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.
  • Purplebunnysarah
    Purplebunnysarah Posts: 3,252 Member
    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.
  • TheRightWeigh
    TheRightWeigh Posts: 249 Member
    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!
  • icimani
    icimani Posts: 1,454 Member
    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.
  • KathyPBiles
    KathyPBiles Posts: 292 Member
    Everything good or bad! "I bite it, I write it!"
  • mrsTravo9112
    mrsTravo9112 Posts: 66 Member
    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)
  • lbesaw
    lbesaw Posts: 267 Member
    Absolutely---that's why my diary is closed. I am totally accountable to me. :smile:
  • jenns1964
    jenns1964 Posts: 384 Member
    Absolutely everything.
  • Fitburd
    Fitburd Posts: 92 Member
    I try to be... yes!
  • whitneysin
    whitneysin Posts: 605 Member
    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?
  • Heather4275
    Heather4275 Posts: 26 Member
    Yes, 100% honest
  • CristinaE721
    CristinaE721 Posts: 5
    <----Logs in everything but gum and mints.
  • alexapatel
    alexapatel Posts: 87 Member
    The only thing I don't log is if a take a sip out of the milk carton or something of that nature.
  • likitisplit
    likitisplit Posts: 9,420 Member
    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.
  • cruzcrzyMarie
    cruzcrzyMarie Posts: 251 Member
    Absolutely! The only person I would be cheating is myself, if I didn't.



    Marie
  • ChelseaM18
    ChelseaM18 Posts: 303
    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.
  • ryry_
    ryry_ Posts: 4,966 Member
    Every single calorie! I measure on my food scale and enter the exact amount. Woop some extra work involved but pays off :)

    Yup
  • lynn413
    lynn413 Posts: 40
    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!!
  • kingofcrunk
    kingofcrunk Posts: 372 Member
    It doesn't actually matter what your food diary says. It matters what you actually put into your body. You will lose/gain/maintain based on that alone. So your food diary could be amazing or it could be empty and it has no impact on your weight. What you physically do has an impact on your weight.

    Personally I log everything because I feel compelled to do that. But i don't think it matters.
  • likeschocolate
    likeschocolate Posts: 368 Member
    The goal of the diary is to make the calories "visible" (metaphorically speaking).

    As long as that is being achieved, the 100% accuracy aspect is perhaps a secondary goal.

    For example, 100% accuracy may not be required if one regularly leaves a margin of 100-250 calories on their daily intake. Then, you know you should be ok if you forgot to enter a small item, or weren't entirely sure of the measurement of something.

    Naturally, it's only hurting oneself if one consistently over-eats and doesn't log it.

    In the long run, it's between you and your goals.
  • glitteratthesea
    glitteratthesea Posts: 104 Member
    I try to log as accurate as possible, even when I have to be ashamed for it. For example, I had three glasses of coke and two bananas as breakfast this morning. Ehm, yeah. I mean, if I don't log everything, I could say at the end of the week: well, this was a good week, but then the scale says NO. Not funny :noway:.

    There is one exception: I don't log when I'm sick. When I'm sick, the first thing is getting better, not losing weight.
  • kaeleenr
    kaeleenr Posts: 3
    Definitely. Even if I am not by by computer/phone to log in I keep a pen and notepad with me to keep track of everything and just log it all at once. I find it as a really important way to hold my self accountable and push my self to do better if I have a rough day. Also it is a really great feeling when you meet a daily goal and even better when do you it all week!
  • chooselove
    chooselove Posts: 106 Member
    Do you record every calorie that passes your lips?


    I record everything but fruits and vegetables. Edited to add: I have shed 45 lbs this way - it doesn't seem to affect me. I'm not going to revolve my life around a food log - sorry.
  • SideSteel
    SideSteel Posts: 11,068 Member
    No, I don't. I use a food scale regularly and I try to track everything but I probably overeat by 100-150 cals if not more.
    I also very firmly believe that most people eat more than they think.
  • aeg176
    aeg176 Posts: 171 Member
    I def try there are times when I don't have access to my phone/computer to log but I am as honest as I can possibly be..I'm only hurting myself if I'm not honest...

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