Really do not want to track

I actually find the tracking on here really easy. If you eat something regularly, save it as a meal and you can add it to any day in just 2-3 clicks. as for embarrassment, why would you feel embarrassed writing things down? Isn't it more embarrassing to put the stuff in to your mouth in the first place? There is nothing embarrassing about trying to get healthy, and the logging teaches you where you are going wrong and how to fix it.

Good luck with that.

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Um, it might encourage you to eat properly if you're aware your food choices are embarrassing.
I don't get the whining on here. I understand lots of people need support and some encouragement, but declaring you just don't want to do something seems pointless. Are we supposed to convince you otherwise?
If you can't do something as simplistic as jot down your calories, I think you're not ready or willing to lose the weight.

This!

You'll never know if you're at a deficit if you don't track.
If you really want to lose weight you'll do what it takes. Simple.
If you're not ready that's fine, come back when you are.

Um, it might encourage you to eat properly if you're aware your food choices are embarrassing.
I don't get the whining on here. I understand lots of people need support and some encouragement, but declaring you just don't want to do something seems pointless. Are we supposed to convince you otherwise?
If you can't do something as simplistic as jot down your calories, I think you're not ready or willing to lose the weight.

This!

You'll never know if you're at a deficit if you don't track.
If you really want to lose weight you'll do what it takes. Simple.
If you're not ready that's fine, come back when you are.

yup. For the most part, weight loss is a math equation. You're trying to figure out how to create an equation where you lose weight. If you aren't tracking and not losing weight, the answer is simple. As it stands now, you're trying to add cats and tube socks in a hope to wind up with dinner plates. Replace those with usable data and complete the process.

Okay, don't track. Keep eating whatever you want, in whatever quantities you want, and see you back here again when you weigh 50 more pounds.

Whutevah.

I don't count calories, and I'm successfully losing weight anyway. I mainly joined this site for the discussion forums. I imagine I could be losing weight more efficiently if I worked out all the math, but I'm simply not willing to be that obsessive about food for the rest of my life. That said, if you're one of those people who believes, "But I eat healthy! I don't understand why I can't lose weight! Must be poor metabolism!", then I think it would be very beneficial for you to write down everything you eat and figure out the calories, at least for a little while. Because when people say those things, the problem is almost always that they're eating way more than they think they are. Showing yourself that will help immensely. It will make weight loss more straightforward, less mysterious. Me, I have no delusions of that kind. I know I ate too much before. I eat less now.

I track for me. You can set your diary to private for a while until you get into a habit and you can banish the embarrassment...but I also have to say, I don't go through peaking through diaries and judging people unless someone asks, they are a friend and I know they are struggling with something, or ...well that is it. There is not enough time in a day for me to monitor your diet along with my own so don't worry that people will look and judge...unless you ask questions that people looking will give them insight to help you, or you whine and complain a lot and spew a lot of wisdom about how much you know but you are incorrect about..then people might go see what you are eating to see if you are making stuff up or living what you preach.

Smartphone app nukes your "lazy" excuse. I've found it pretty easy - if you're actually weighing your food and taking it seriously then the inputting into MFP is a breeze.

In the end, if you don't do it, you'll likely see poor results. So do it.

I just signed up. I don't want to write down everything I eat out of embarrassment and laziness. Help and motivation appreciated , new so please add me! Thanks

You don't actually have to open your diary. Or you can open it just to friends, or you can have a code that you give to select individuals.

But until you do log what you're eating - that and measure and weigh everything - you're not in control of your food. I'm not a researcher, someone else can quote you the science, but I think that it has been proved that people who keep food diaries do better with weight loss and healthy eating than people who don't.

And the MFP food diary has excellent tools to help you - you can enter recipies to work out the calories - if it's high you can see why and think about substituting ingredients to lower it cals. You can save regular meals to save time. And it adds it all up for you, so you can clearly see your daily calorie budget and what you can afford each day, and how much exercise you need to do to earn more calories.

I started on here by downloading the App to my Android phone - that's how it worked for me, my phone was constantly at my fingertips, it was sooooooo easy! I never would have written it down in a book or logged on to the website every day. That worked for 4 months till my phone died, so I no longer have the app, but it worked so well, and the weight fell off, so I continued on my laptop. It's just a habit, and when you get into it you'll never remember what it was like when you thought you couldn't!

I've learned a lot too by logging my food - I've learned a huge amount about where the calories are, where they aren't and portion size and how to keep enjoying my favourite things in moderation without piling on weight. I couldn't have done that without logging my food. I kept my diary closed to start with - when my phone died and I started on the website instead, I started looking at the forums, made more friends, and decided to open it.

I eat rubbish still! Yesterday was a horrible slobby day, nothing of much nutritional value at all! But I'm not embarrassed - everyone else is like me! They have virtuous days where they eat lots of healthy stuff and they have slobby days where they indulge.