Anyone quit logging food and lose weight?

In the past, has NOT logging worked?

I was wondering the same thing. Maybe I am a brat but this is a lot of discipline. But logging does work for me. Has anyone got healthy habits and can quit doing all this logging.

Nope. Never even considered it. Not sure how I would know I was getting proper nutrition daily without logging or at least writing it all down in a notebook. I find the food pyramid a little incomplete and it is hard to guestimate calories for me. One day I hope to have my top 20 days memorized to fit into a healthy lifestyle and to really know how to hit my macro and micro nutrient goals without need of this app and support tool but until then I will probably stick with it. Good luck to you I hope it works!

Choice 1, you're absolutely right, it doesn't work.

Choice 2, you're dong it wrong, perhaps you should ask for advice, answer some questions honestly, and reassess where things are going wrong.

*cue Jeopardy music*

I lost 23 lbs before I joined. It was an accident. I joined when I stopped losing. I have not lost a pound since. I think that I may go back to not logging again after I have gathered enough records to speak intelligently with my doctor about my other metabolic issued.

Definitely worth a try. I can usually tell exactly how much food I need to be satisfied but not hungry. I pack all my lunches for work so that's always easy and there are days where I don't have enough food and I'm still hungry so the next day I pack a tiny little bit more and go from there. I also pay attention so that I don't overstuff myself. I always go on how my body feels. Some days I just need more food, either I'm doing more housework and burning more calories or walking more at work and other days I'm maybe only doing the laundry after work and don't need as much food for the day. I think it's more important for a person to go on how their body feels instead of a number in front of them.

I had plateaued for about three months, stopped logging for a week while on vacation and just didn't start up again, and I lost five pounds in the first say three weeks of not logging and have since plateaued again. I only have the last ten-fifteen pounds to lose so I don't really mind it being slow now and I'll only start logging again if by September I haven't lost any more.

i cook most of my dinners (for just me and my husband) from scratch as well. you should see my "recipe" list on my food tab. i think it's a great way to keep track of what's actually going into my food and also how to change them to make them better (you might be shocked when you see what nutrients are in different foods -i know i was). it's a great way for me to keep track of things and i use it nearly every single day.
and get a food scale. that's helped me tremendously. before, i'd just wing it and guess what i was eating. once i started actually measuring things, i saw that i was really bad at estimating. this also helps me be more accurate when i am inputting recipes. you have a pound of chicken? put it in your recipe. you plan on having 4 servings from that recipe? simple - measure out 4 oz of the chicken when you are ready to eat. then i scoop out whatever my husband might want, and measure the leftovers for my lunch the next day. pulling it up from the recipe tab couldn't be easier. it's simple. enter the recipe once, make it, eat it, and log it easily for dinner that night and lunch the next day. BOOM.

OH and i also agree with whoever said they didn't want to bow down to a number on a computer screen. seriously, couldn't agree more. i would get so hung up on meeting this number or that number that i would get really upset with myself when i didn't. my husband gave me a lot of encouragement and helped me to stay on track. i use MFP a lot, and it is a very useful tool to me to keep myself informed. i have learned to not get down on myself so much about meeting number goals, but rather focus on making healthy choices and exercising regularly. also remembering that my self worth and joy are not based in my appearance has been helpful as well. i want to focus on being healthier. MFP helps me do that - but i too have stopped bowing down to the numbers their computer has projected on me.

I log everything. Whenever I don't things start to slip & I go into free fall. I haven't always been on MFP, sometimes I used Weight Watchers, but I have never lost weight without being mindful of what I am actually eating. It is a pain in rear. I make dinner for my family of 6, so I use the recipe builder & base everything on 1 cup servings so that I can calculate what I have eaten. This is a pain as well--dumping the food into a large measuring cup to try to be as accurate as possible. I know that it's not exact, but it's better than nothing. It's just how life has to be (for me at least) & it is worth the effort in the long run.

No. I NEED to log everything that goes into my pie hole.

I log so I can eat junk food. In the past I've tried eating healthy and failed miserably every time, because I didn't eat junk at all. Now I can eat that little ice cream cone of those two cookies because I know it fits in my calories, and it stops me from binging or giving up.

I can think of two things that could happen if I stopped 1) I'd eat over my calories without realizing, 2) I wouldn't eat enough and would eventually binge, or mess up my metabolism.

I'm perfectly ok with logging all my life if I have to. Better than the alternative. Now, I'm going in vacations next week and won't log for a week, but I'll also walk all day so I figured it should even out in the end. But I'll go right back to logging when I come back.

I suck at logging. I went over to my parent's house for dinner the other night...if I asked my Mom how many tablespoons of dressing she put on the salad, or how much better was used to saute something, she'd look at me like I had two heads. And would have no answer for me. Same for when my boyfriend cooks. It's find if I'm making my food, or eating at a chain-like restaurant (Panera, for example) but local independent restaurants, and if anyone else is cooking....I know it's not accurate even when I try.

Today is my 200th day of logging. I can't imagine NOT logging anymore...it's become such a habit for me.

I've gone a few days without logging and lost weight in those few days. I should probabaly add that the reason I wasn't logging food was because iwas fasting so I wasn't eating any food :laugh:

I think it's a better idea to just keep logging.