i want to be honest about my food intake but...
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If you don't log everything, please don't come back and ask why you aren't losing weight at XX calories.0
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...must i record every morsel that passes my lips? its so tedious and time consuming.
No it's not.0 -
Log it if it has calories.
It gets much less time consuming as you go, especially if you eat a lot of the same foods like I do. I spend probably 10 minutes per day logging at this point.0 -
ok ok, I WILL LOG EVERYTHING!
thank you friends.0 -
I know it can be kind of time consuming, but it is worth it.
To help, prelog your day ahead of time.0 -
I'm usually pretty anal about logging everything.
My weight loss slowed down a few times, so each time I thought about what I was doing differently. Every time it was because I was picking food off my kids/husbands plate, and not logging it. A few french fries here, a couple of chips or whatever there. The little stuff adds up.
Weigh, measure, log EVERYTHING0 -
you dont have to log everything EVERYTHING
like if you eat 1 grape don't get onto MFP and track down 1 grape...thats called obsessive calorie counting. But if you ate a whole serving of grapes THEN you track it.0 -
this has to be a trollI just entered 4 slices of tomatoes - which shows to be abt 64 calories. I thought fresh veggies were free!
if they're just as expensive as candy or cookies, I might as well have some fun food instead. I know that i'm here to get healthier but I never imagined that I would need to calculate lettuce (which in my opinion tastes closer to grass!)0 -
Edited - I was responding to other posters not OP!
I suggest you log everything, shows that you are making good choices / what works / what doesn't.
Good luck!0 -
I log every single thing. Every. thing. Even the ketchup and mayo...even the 1/3 of a tomato that adds up to like 6 calories...because at the end of the day it all adds up.
^ This. you'll see me log everything - mayo, mustard, salt, pepper, garlic... EVERYTHING.0 -
Log everything, nothing must be left unlogged LOL, but seriously the closer you keep track of your morsels the easier losing weight will be. It is a good habit to form and pretty soon you will do it without thinking! ~Corina0
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Sounds to me like you don't "want to be honest about your food intake" like you state.
If you are honest, you will record everything you consume, regardless if it has calories or not. I get more information about what "happened" to me by recording bad days as much or more than recording good days.
Only you decide to be accurate...only you suffers for not doing so.0 -
pardon my ignorance, but what does that stand for?
quoted for truth.
or quails fear trespassing.
could be either here.
Quit F-ing Talking. till someone told me other wise, then I didn't appreciate it as much.
I'll stick w/mine. Funnier.0 -
I log and WEIGH everything.
It is tedious, but the 10 minutes a day it takes to log everything is worth a life of being healthy, is it not?0 -
if you really want this to work to its fullest potential...YES.
be accountable for EVERYTHING you take in.
everything.
srsly...everything.
But not everything I take in has calories...0 -
i like that" if you bite... it write it":laugh:It's tedious for sure, but "if you bite it, write it"
even the little stuff...because you may think you're OK, but if you've had 3 tbs of ketchup and a splash of cream in your coffee, and that "one bite" of something...it all adds up, and may be the thing that's keeping you from your goal.0 -
Depends on what you are trying to accomplish. If your logging is off by the same amount in proportion to your overall intake (IOW what you log is always like 85% of your calories) then you can still find a consistent intake and keep a consistent deficit. But ignoring things like condiments (which can add up quickly) can throw you off. And if you find you are eating at your goal and never losing then you need to either adjust your goal appropriately or start logging more accurately.0
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I agree. Just do it.0
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I am so anal about recording every little bit! It's almost insane...0
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Tamm04, this literally made me laugh out loud. Haha, thanks!I log in everything, except herbs and spices. AIN'T NO BODY GOT TIME FOR DAT :laugh: :huh:
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some veg and fruit are quit high in calories compared to what you think they may be.
and if you want to track you're over all intake like fat,carbs and vitamin etc then you will have to log them to see if you're getting the levels you want.0 -
things I don't log:
mustard
tomato sauce
cooking oil (I don't use a lot)
why?
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I saw a study once that showed that people who logged their food ate less, even if they weren't on a diet. While I don't know how true that study is, it works for me. Sometimes I don't eat something because I don't feel like logging it. The rule for me is "If you eat it, you log it". Pain in the butt - I hate it - but that is the point for me.0
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I log in everything, except herbs and spices. AIN'T NO BODY GOT TIME FOR DAT :laugh: :huh:
yah... not those either. not salt or pepper neither.
and dang it, you beat my to it both o yall.0 -
At this point (almost a year and a half of logging), I'm pretty good at eyeballing portions, and I also know a lot of calorie info by heart. So if I make an omelet with bell peppers, onions, spinach & mushrooms, I might just enter one of the veggies but over-enter the amount so that the calories match what they would have been if I'd entered each one separately. If I'm feeling REALLY lazy, I'll just quick-add cals.
But again, I've done this for long enough that I'm pretty darn accurate. 0 -
btw, if you read my food diary, you can see how seriously I am taking my weight loss and health program and how I entered every single thing that passed my lips. I just was wondering if that's what you're supposed to do or if it was just me being a perfectionist! I definitely see how it helps and i'll be continuing to do so.0
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I log in everything, except herbs and spices. AIN'T NO BODY GOT TIME FOR DAT :laugh: :huh:
THIS! I refuse to put in a "dash" of garlic powder, or any spice/herb for that matter.0 -
There is no way I'm going to log something that's 10 calories or less, I'd rather just reduce my daily calorie goal.
But if being anal works for someone else, go for it.0 -
I don't log everything but if I wasn't losing weight or inches over an extended period of time then I would start. Part of that is me being lazy/not interested, part of that is liking having not pulled out all the stops all at once. Like, I like knowing I have something else I can start to do if I get stuck.
In my defense, however, I don't log all of my exercise all of the time either, and mark myself as sedentary. That 15 minute walk I took when I'd normally have driven to the store goes unlogged as well, so I can nibble off of my boyfriends plate without freaking out.
I'm a fan of creating "recipes" of things I use often that are small. Like, if I put onion, tomato, spinach, mustard, etc... on a sandwich, or turkey burger then I have that as a recipe for "Sammich Veggies". Little things like that have helped me log *more*, but I don't log spices, or if my coffee has no sweetener or creamer and is just black, I don't log it. So far so good.0 -
When I was on weight watchers the fruit was free and so were most of the vegetables. Some of that was seriously a lot of food and calories. If you are more concerned with healthy eating than losing weight, i would say don't log unless you start gaining.0
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