Do you track your calories when you over-eat?

I do, even when it's hard to see. It puts me into the "knock that off!" mentality. I also like to log in every day out of habit, so I might as well keep track even when I fall off the trail.

Of course I track when I over eat. If not, what's the point of logging at all? We're all going to have good and bad days. Honestly, I wasn't planning on over eating at all this weekend. My boyfriend and I decided to go to Red Lobster. I had 2 cheese buns. A caesar salad. Calamari and breaded vegetables. Bread crusted fettucini alfredo and a warm cookie lava cake. It was all delicious and I logged every calorie of it. Sure, it wasn't a great feeling to see in my diary. But, now I am back on track and I'll stay an extra 10 minutes at the gym each day this week. C'est la vie

Ooo yes I do, unfortunately... it's a shame that I can eat that much but at least im honest with myself=)

I usually track, even if I am over. Sometimes I'll commit to not tracking - like while away camping, or going to a pot-luck event or something. Depends...

I track it because I want to see how much over I go so I am not shocked when the scale tells me my increase.
It also makes me a little more careful on what I choose to eat.

MOST DEFINITELY...and it is painful sometimes....but the truth is....
it helps to understand where that residual weight gain down the road came from.
If I gain...and I've been eating "clean"...but I've not been drinking my water...and frankly...overeating on protein...or carbs...
or undereating.... I know then what happened. If I don't chart it...I WILL forget...and won't make those connections.
Honesty is the best policy in all things to do with your nutrition...I'll leave the decision about other things in life to your
discretion. ;D

yes i do it really helps me stay on the track instead of giving up after bad days
i remeber i went really crazy one day and went beyond 3000 cals!!

I track everything - I like to see it for what it is - no point in kidding myself :bigsmile:

Yes, I log everything.

Nah, water under the bridge. Just start fresh, I don't see any need to beat myself up.

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YES!!!!
Then when my weight goes up I know the trigger

I log everything.

I usually don't, unless whatever I ate can be *easily* tracked - pre-packaged foods and the like.


If I went all-out at, for example, a potluck, chock-full of casseroles with who-knows-what for ingredients, or if I was nibbling bits of this, and tastes of that - MFP is such a royal PITA to track stuff like that. Sure, I could pick 'potato salad' out of the list, but *whose* potato salad? The one that's basic, or the one with a million calorie-heavy ingredients? And what if I thought the mac and cheese at the potluck was really rich and laden with calories - but it was actually made with cauliflower? Suddenly I've eaten perhaps hundreds of calories *less* than I thought....which could totally affect how I manage my eating for the rest of the day/week/whatever.

So if I 'overeat' - I rarely track in specifics anymore.

What I *do* do, however, is write a note explaining what I ate, and sometimes approximate amounts (as in - 'three bites of hubby's burrito' or 'a slice of homemade pizza'). And then I get back on track the next day.

This is easy for me to do, because I usually eat a very small rotating menu - usually the same things every day or few days. so most days, tracking is easy, and it's just the 'wild' days that are hard.


If I felt I had to track every stinking morsel of food, including recipes that I didn't make - I would never track. I would be thinking about food, and how much, and what the heck is in this stuff, rather than enjoying time with friends and family, and frankly, if healthy eating is going to be a lifestyle, that nitpicky lifestyle isn't the kind of life I want to live.

Sometimes good enough is good enough.

Ummm...sometimes. When I NEED to splurge (i.e. severely under my calories for the week) I try to track as much as I can but I don't obsess over it. Usually my splurge consists of one meal so I will track all the way up until that. Tracking for me is to make sure I stay under so on my occasional splurges when I have to room to eat and I NEED to eat, it doesn't matter if I track or not.