Do you "lie" on your food diary?

I have in the past, but for the latest push, I've been tracking more metrics than just calories and use them in a 7-day running average which does two things for me:

1) It means I can have that cheat day without throwing off my running average too much.
2) It looks at my diet over an entire week and allows me to figure out where and why I cheat.

Pretty cool.

If I'm logging, I tell the truth but if you see 1000 calories worth of quick add, it's probably because I drank a bunch of beer and would rather not be judged for it even though it may have fit into my calories for the day.

Ha, ha, I on the other hand am quite proud when I kill a bottle of wine by myself, and log it with pride!

As others above have said. If you lie on your diary, you're lying to yourself. It has no effect on anybody else. I try to log everything. It gives me a better view of what I need to eliminate or add to. I don't add in sugar free gum, this keeps the munchies at bay and has no effect on calories consumed I do have to estimate portions sometime. For example, today, I was at a meeting where lunch was served. I had to estimate the amount of sliced brisket I at based on practice w/ weighing all my food portions in the kitchen.

I'd rather make my diaries private than lie on them. Accountability is key and for me it's a constant reminder of what I am doing right or wrong. I think some people put quick add calories because they don't want other people to know what they actually consume or they eat under on because they have a perception that less is more.

I will add that I just bought a real food scale and have used it to weigh things like deli meat, cheese, cereal, pasta, apples (because the ones I got from the mountains last week are HUGE!) and so I suspect I've been underestimating some things.

I'm not going to weigh every bowl of lettuce, slice of onion, or red pepper than I eat. If I get fat from eating too many leafy veggies, well, I guess I'm just supposed to be fat.

If I do lie it's because I don't measure everything. I estimate. Apparently it isn't healthy to be on anything under 1200 (for woman) so no, it's not considered healthy. With that being said I can be under my 1200 at times but I do try and not to be.

NO. there is no reason to lie..not beneficial

Nah, if anything I try to give myself some wiggle room (overestimation). But now that I have my nifty new digital food scale, that'll happen less.

I want this to work. Not exactly sure what lying/cheating accomplishes.

If you don't log it, there's no proof that you ate it.
If there's no proof that you ate it, guess you didn't eat it.
If you didn't eat it, then you didn't consume the calories.

isn't that how it works ?
doesn't get any easier than that.

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I don't lie. If anything, like a lot of others, I over estimate. The diary is a working tool for me so it would be foolish to lie on it as it would fail in it's purpose.

I don't lie per se but when I pre-logged my foods I often forgot (or was too lazy) ti go back and change them if I veered from the plan. Now I only log after i've eaten.

No i don't log my cheat days because there is usually a ridiculous amount of beer involved and I can't remember wtf I eat when I'm drunk. when I log I put everything I eat in there if not i'm only ****ing myself over

Never that's why I'm usually always over...lol

Nope...not even that day I had 1/3 of my calories from (crappy!) chocolate candies.

Probably, because you just can't eat that little for that many days in a row without binging on something. And I doubt they record the binge.

Those people are the ones whose weight never changes, too.

Ignorant statement. I was one of those people.. and I logged everything I ate. and i did it for months without "binging" I did lose weight too. BUT it didn't last and I got really really sick from eating so little. I was so bad, that if I knew i'd be drinking that evening, i'd eat even less during the day. Subconsciously. I had no idea I was doing that, until i'd log. And I wasn't sitting here hungry and not eating either. I was legit not hungry. If I felt hungry i'd eat. But I just didn't. and then I'd go all day and get to dinner and realize I hadn't eaten anything all day. Some people probably do omit foods that put them over their goals or that are not in line with what they tell people they are trying to eat like. but that goes for everyone. Whether their count is low or high. But to say people who do this binge later and don't log it. Unless you've been there, you really don't know what it's like to not be hungry.

I am *still* not hungry. I just eat anyway, because i don't want to ever be sick again. I make it a point to eat. Prepping foods, trying new things, getting excited over new stuff. Everyday I have to think about what I am going to eat and how I am going to reach a healthy goal. It works, but it's not easy and just because someone has a low calorie count doesn't mean they are lying or not recording binges.

Some people really have a problem. I had to ignore a bunch of people on here, who just tore me apart because "why didn't I just eat" well if it was only that simple. It is *entirely* possible to go from over eating to under eating as an adult. It is entirely possible to eat a vlcd without bingeing. It is entirely possible to not be hungry while doing so.

It's ok to not understand, its' not ok to trivialize someone else's struggles. Maybe your (generic you) struggle is to not over eat. I don't have that struggle and I don't understand it. I'm not going to belittle you because you do. But I will try to give you any help I can. If I think I have any to offer.

Today.. I'm struggling with dinner. I don't know what to eat with my planned meat. I'll figure it out because i need to eat more calories. But it's not as easy for me as it is for a lot of others. I ate lunch today even though I wasn't hungry for it. It's working, I'm getting to my goals in a more permanent healthier fashion, but it's a struggle. Just a different one then your's.