Anyone else have a hard time logging their dinner food?

pinklemonayde530
pinklemonayde530 Posts: 29 Member
in Health and Weight Loss
I'm usually not home when dinner gets made and everyone else eats. The people at home put a bowl/plate aside for me and I'll just eat when I get home. I have no idea what I'm having before hand or any kind of serving size for any of the foodt; I just eat what is made. My food log is never complete because I can only estimate my dinner at best. We also have a lot of 1-pot meals where everything just gets thrown in together so that doesn't make it easy either. So far, I just try not to eat too much during the day and don't worry about dinner too much; it seems to be working for now. Was just wondering if anyone else has/had a similar problem like this and what did you do about it?

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  • BarackMeLikeAHurricane
    BarackMeLikeAHurricane Posts: 3,400 Member
    Make your own dinner
  • kittyhasclaws
    kittyhasclaws Posts: 446 Member
    Ask for the recipes, log them into the recipe section, and find out about how much of that pot you ate for your serving sizes.
  • proudandprejudiced
    proudandprejudiced Posts: 127
    Make your own dinner.
  • pinklemonayde530
    pinklemonayde530 Posts: 29 Member
    Ask for the recipes, log them into the recipe section, and find out about how much of that pot you ate for your serving sizes.

    That's a good idea. I never thought of using the recipe section. Thanks :smile:
  • alladream
    alladream Posts: 261 Member
    If I eat at a restaurant or someone else's house, I 1) try to control my food intake to some reasonable degree because I want to lose weight, and 2) try to write down an estimate in the log. We ate over a rabbi's house recently, and they had bread bread bread and wine/grape juice a lot as part of their religious aspect of things (I'm not Jewish, so I pretty much ate everything that came along in order not to offend somehow since I really don't know all the ins and outs of the culture), plus a ton of appetizers and a bunch of stew and rice, and I courteously ate everything they gave me, then guessed the next day about how many pieces of nice challah bread I had and how many appetizers and whatever, and threw in extra calories so I wasn't fooling myself into thinking I had less than I had. Even if I am at some place where people cook for me, I feel like it's my personal responsibility to observe what I eat, use judgment about it, and then I personally try to write it down to the best of my ability. Otherwise it gets completely unhelpful to me to write down half a day's food and then to eat an additional one or two days' worth which I ignore, and then I wonder why I stay fat or gain weight!
  • corgicake
    corgicake Posts: 846 Member
    Start getting recipes added to what they like to make. Problem solved :)

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