Ever eat something that you really don't want to log?

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  • melbournemummy79
    melbournemummy79 Posts: 80
    The dark chocolate I just ate :D
    But hey I logged it and now I am 51 cals over.
    Your supposed to live... and a life without the occasional treat is pretty meh.
    Thats just IMO :happy:
  • lil_pulp
    lil_pulp Posts: 701 Member
    Whether you log it or not, your body knows what happened. But if you don't log it and at some point go back and try to figure out why you're not losing, you might keep running into an invisible wall.
  • beatricelombule
    beatricelombule Posts: 96 Member
    Yeah I do.... just yesterday I ate a lot of chocolates, they were more than a 1000 kcal when I logged it in. But I burned them up with more than 70 minutes of Tae bo and kickboxing in the morning and afternoon. I also took long walks to the store.
  • notworthstalking
    notworthstalking Posts: 531 Member
    Yes, I did this with Girl Scout Cookies. but listed them anyway. I tell my self, I have lost weight going over. I like this plan because I can eat what I want, but not all that I want. Put it down. Seeing what you eat and when will help you in ways only you will know. After all, if you cheat, you cheat your waist line........

    Very good way of putting it.
  • ttiiggzz
    ttiiggzz Posts: 154 Member
    I can relate to this with popcorn. I can keep away from most sweets, don't know why, but popcorn's a snack I love and it's hard not to eat all of it, even if it's air-popped!
  • queenbea77
    queenbea77 Posts: 404 Member
    Lol - all the time! But I log it anyways. Then when I weight myself for that week I can see where I goofed up. If we don't then how are we going to learn? If its something I'm not sure of calorie wise then I find something comparable or create my own recipe & always estimate on the higher end. I'd rather guess 500 calories & have it actually be 400.

    Robyn - I like your new food category. I might just try that one. I'd like to be able to add a "snack" between breakfast & lunch & dinner so if I've got a day with tons of energy I can look back & see "yes, I had a snack mid afternoon so that did help"
  • Spokez70
    Spokez70 Posts: 548 Member
    I used to feel weird about some things back when I would do the whole Complete-This-Enrty thing and post it on my wall because I felt like people were evaluating my food choices for the day. So I quit hitting the complete button for good or bad days. My diary is still open if anyone cares but I feel like not advertising it daily helps me be intellectually honest in logging if that makes sense.
  • MsPudding
    MsPudding Posts: 562 Member
    Log it and be damned is my view. I even keep my diary totally open so anyone can marvel at my occasional excesses. Last Wednesday was a classic - I was working away last week so was eating out with colleagues for pretty much every meal. Wednesday started off ok with porridge in my room....then started to go pear-shaped with a business lunch in a Thai restaurant and then totally flat-lined with dinner out in a pizza restaurant that involved beer (I had to find a shop-bought equivalent for the pizza calories so the one I ate may even be more calorific!) and then I ended up watching a late night film and munching through a bag of Cadbury's Crunchie Clusters.....3,900 roughly for the day :noway:

    Having said that - I don't count daily calories, I look at weekly averages and when you do that the picture is soooo much better. Even with Wednesday's hedonistic orgy of carbs and beer I'm still on target for the week as a whole and though my weigh-in day is tomorrow, it look as though I've lost this week.
  • DaniH826
    DaniH826 Posts: 1,335 Member
    ~1000 calories of Nutella with a spoon ....

    I logged it, went "eep!" then figured the overall math for the week and it turns out I was fine.

    You just have to give yourself a cushion so you can calculate in those moments in life that are going to happen, and make them fit. No biggie. :smile:
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  • servilia
    servilia Posts: 3,452 Member
    This usually happens with baklava. I hate seeing red numbers. Oh well I still log it.
  • ramblinritz
    ramblinritz Posts: 24 Member
    I log everything and know I'm not perfect and will go over on some days. It is a helpful reminder of when and how often I do go over. This week I didn't lose any weight (but I didn't gain weight either) and I know it was those delicious homemade yeast rolls. Log it and move on.
  • dlbarnz
    dlbarnz Posts: 13 Member
    All of the time. You have to remember, you are going to have have cravings, sometimes you (all of us) are going to act on it. Don't beat yourself up over it. Just move on. We all didn't get this way over night, we are not going to reach our goals overnight either. Thanks for sharing, it's a reminder of how many challenges we face daily! Good Luck...
  • jezama77
    jezama77 Posts: 138 Member
    Thank you soooo much everyone for all the posts, encouragements, and ideas! It was really great to see how other people have struggled and overcame. I especially like the idea of working out more on those days! I need to remember to log things BEFORE I eat them because I know that I would have eaten less popcorn...I'm sure my hubby would have been happy to eat 3/4 of a bowl instead of half! Hahaha! :)
  • lockmand
    lockmand Posts: 90 Member
    I log everything, and try to watch and learn.
    I had to pat myself on the back after eating in a seafood restaurant owned by a Greek friend. The broiled flounder wasn't bad calorie wise, but right beside our booth, was the dessert case, and baklava was there, I struggled but found the flounder filling enough that I was able to pass it by....deserve a pat on the back for that one. I find it very hard to pass that one dessert, so don't usually go in places that serve it.
    Donna155
  • Wetterdew
    Wetterdew Posts: 142 Member
    If I know I'm way over, I often just don't record for that day. Then the next two days I'll binge eat. It's awful.

    My solution: allow myself to sometimes eat unhealthy, high-calorie foods by eating much less food on that day so that my calories end up around my set point
  • leighdiane91
    leighdiane91 Posts: 225 Member
    log it and move on. next time make sure you measure in cups how much you are eating, then you can log it more accurately. If you don't add all of the extra butter and oil, popcorn is a great filling snack and goes perfect with a movie lol
  • Amy62575
    Amy62575 Posts: 422 Member
    Yep, but I usually log it anyway. We're only hurting ourselves if we don't. I quick-added 150 cals last night for 3 bites of my son's mini-brownie blast at a local restaurant because I couldn't find it in the database. Maybe I overestimated, but I logged it.
  • suzy1220
    suzy1220 Posts: 118 Member
    Of course, but I log it anyway! By not logging, you are essentially denying that you ate the food. There is absolutely nothing wrong with eating treats now and then, one meal or one day is not going to harm your overall weight loss efforts. But if you do this once, you are giving yourself permission to do it again, and again and next thing you know you are eating 500 extra calories a day without logging and wondering why you are not losing and/or gaining weight. (It's amazing how quickly we forget we ate those extra unlogged calories!)

    Go under Track Foods, then Recipes and put in your oil and popcorn kernel amount, create it as a recipe that serves 2 and it will tell you the calories. Then add that to your diary and move on. Don't feel guilty about your snack, or going over, b/c chances are on other days you've been under and it will all even out. It's calories over the course of a week that will help you lose, not so much the calories in one given day.

    I use that recipe calculator all of the time to figure out my calories in a meal. If you know all the ingredients and the amounts you are using it's a lifesaver. Good luck and enjoy, this is your life so feel free to live it joyfully!
  • CupcakeConnection
    CupcakeConnection Posts: 42
    Food for thought - "What you eat in private, you wear in public"! :laugh:
  • DaniH826
    DaniH826 Posts: 1,335 Member
    Food for thought - "What you eat in private, you wear in public"! :laugh:

    Yea our bodies are definitely keeping track, one way or the other. :bigsmile:
  • JewelSmith
    JewelSmith Posts: 155 Member
    I had to laugh because I can so relate! Usually I log anyway and put a disclaimer in the notes. LOL..However, it is best to log it so you can see with your eyes and process how that indulgence affected your totals. Usually I learn from those mistakes and if I do it again, usually I scale back so it is not as costly..
  • JewelSmith
    JewelSmith Posts: 155 Member
    Food for thought - "What you eat in private, you wear in public"! :laugh:

    So True!
  • ThinUpGirl
    ThinUpGirl Posts: 397
    I log everything, good or bad. However, if I pig out one night and don't weigh food and track calories, I always input them later and over estimate. It helps keep me in check for the days to follow.
  • buckystars
    buckystars Posts: 129 Member
    Logging everything and keeping my diary open helps keep me in check. I'm going to own up to every awful thing I put in my mouth and be held accountable. It's too easy to stop tracking the "bad" things and try to make my diary look good to others. I'd only be hurting myself so why do that?
  • berthabunny
    berthabunny Posts: 251 Member
    Sometime last summer, I had an entire half-gallon of ice cream one night. Yup, no kidding. Totally binged.

    No one would ever want to log that!
  • chooselove
    chooselove Posts: 106 Member
    I have a special meal called Cheats and Rewards just so I can log those moments I indulge in a special treat. No guilt logging it because it is acknowledged as a random event rather than a ongoing sneaky addition.

    That's clever!
  • jezama77
    jezama77 Posts: 138 Member
    Of course, but I log it anyway! By not logging, you are essentially denying that you ate the food. There is absolutely nothing wrong with eating treats now and then, one meal or one day is not going to harm your overall weight loss efforts. But if you do this once, you are giving yourself permission to do it again, and again and next thing you know you are eating 500 extra calories a day without logging and wondering why you are not losing and/or gaining weight. (It's amazing how quickly we forget we ate those extra unlogged calories!)

    Go under Track Foods, then Recipes and put in your oil and popcorn kernel amount, create it as a recipe that serves 2 and it will tell you the calories. Then add that to your diary and move on. Don't feel guilty about your snack, or going over, b/c chances are on other days you've been under and it will all even out. It's calories over the course of a week that will help you lose, not so much the calories in one given day.

    I use that recipe calculator all of the time to figure out my calories in a meal. If you know all the ingredients and the amounts you are using it's a lifesaver. Good luck and enjoy, this is your life so feel free to live it joyfully!

    I never thought of the recipe calculator! Thanks!
  • mrsmarit
    mrsmarit Posts: 229 Member
    I was starting to get in a bad habit of eating things and not logging them. Not all the time but things I didn't want to take the time to measure, scan and record.


    I realized last week that it was becoming a problem and made myself a healthy living accountability jar. I made up +'s and -'s of things I need to hold myself accountable for and assigned a points value based on each item (i.e. under calories is +1 but over is -5).

    For me adding and subtracting those numbers was kind of a eye opener. I thought I was doing a lot better than I was on managing things like my workouts, protein and snacking but I wasn't.

    Long story short... the only thing you are cheating by not logging everything is yourself.
  • KANGOOJUMPS
    KANGOOJUMPS Posts: 6,474 Member
    HILARIOUS.

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