Do you track your calories when you over-eat?

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

not really lol

I wouldnt.. I'm all up tight when I have to log.. So if im trying to have fun with my friends I wana be spontaneous

I do track to the best of my ability, in order to hold myself accountable. If I don't, I'll find it's super easy just to let everything slide and have a massive feast because of "writing it off" as a day when I over-ate.

Absolutely. No point in ever tracking if you're not going to honestly track.

I 100% agree with the post above!!!

YES. Helps me adjust for the rest of the week and I work out more. Instead of seeing it like a 'punishment', I see it like budgeting my money, only with food.

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.