Do you "lie" on your food diary?
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No, I don't lie to my diary because if I did I'd be lying to myself. What's the sense in that? If I didn't want to know what my nutritional values were, I wouldn't take all the time it takes to record each food. It would be such a waste of time I'd have to stop recording anything.0
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When I first started logging, I was tempted to alter my log to make it fit after I had already eaten. Never did, though. I also tried to judge a portion size based on how many calories I thought a food had rather than determine the calories by the portion size. Something like: this looks like about 200 calories, so that means it's a half cup.0
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Nope...not even that day I had 1/3 of my calories from (crappy!) chocolate candies.
I did that one day. It was awesome. And I logged every damn one of those candies and stayed within my calorie goal.
Why lie? You know you ate it, you may as well own it.0 -
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.
See that is just a stereotypical generalisation.
When I first started on here 4 months ago I was eating less than 1000cals a day and I wasn't a binger. It took me a long while to get my intake stabilised and even now I still have days where I am only JUST managing to consume 1000-1200 a day and I usually manage that by eating a chocolate bar to up my cals for the day.
Some people do genuinely just have smaller appetites.
Ha, ha, I on the other hand am quite proud when I kill a bottle of wine by myself, and log it with pride!
Lol this made me giggle.
And in answer to the op... no I don't lie, simply cause I still know I had it even if MFP doesn't so there's no point in not logging it. Was a good topic
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It all depends on how you view lie. Sometimes I eat some food for dessert, something that fits into my calorie budget for the day, but don't bother logging it cause it's the last thing I will eat that night. But I always log up until that point, and I usually do log my dessert.0
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As you probably already know, thats great! (the whole muscle vs fat difference doesn't mean much when you regard the inches) keep up all of your hard work! its paying off0
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To be insulted for eating far less than 1k is such a ridiculous nasty thing and then to be called a liar? ahah0
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Nope, no point in lying. Lying doesn't hurt anyone but myself. Besides I dont really see the point of people lying. If you dont want other's to know just make your diary private. Easy peasy 0
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You wouldn't be lying to anyone but yourself. If you are lying here, it isn't the first diet plan you are lying on, and when you finally give up because it doesn't work, it will just be added to the list of the multitude of other diet plans that did not work, and you just don't know why.0
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I don't lie about my food diary I just don't include dinner because I find it difficult to gauge what I eat for dinner so I usually leave 600 cals for dinner so most of my food diarys are less than 1000 :P0
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If it went in my mouth it goes in my food diary. Thats my one promise to myself - I am trying to log accurately what I ate and what activity I did so I have an accurate picture and lose weight. Even if I wished I hadnt eat it, I did, so it goes on there. Not recording it isnt going to make me thinner - just be lying to myself and getting nowhere!
ETA a friend of mine is one here and she logs her food, but never her alcohol cals, which when you can drink 1-2 bottles alone (that's another issue) adds up a fair amount. No point logging the rest if you then consume 500-1000 cals in booze a day!0 -
Thru out this process it starts with you. So i sometimes see people log in a whole lot of cleaning or some weird things like preparing food to burn calories. Im here on my fitness pal for support and to help others. If i eat something that i dont want ppl to see then i shouldn't eat it. Sometimes i do and sometimes i dont but minutes later i feel gulity and i add it even it throws me over thats the whole purpose to see the things you're eating and work on changing it. But if there not honest with themselves what makes you think there gonna be honest with there fitness pals.0
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No I don't lie, because the only person you would hurt is yourself.0
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I don't lie - not to fudge with my total calories or make my diary look better, anyway.
But on rare days (like my vacation week) it's just too much trouble to figure out every ingredient in the restaurant meals so I try to either make smart choices, or eat less of my not-so-smart choices and just don't log at all.
And, of course, there's always the meals where I'm not sure exactly what I'm eating so I find what looks like the nearest item in the database and guess at an amount.
And occasionally I don't weigh, say, an apple because it's basically the same size as the apple I weighed yesterday, but I'll enter it as the same size.
All of the above is why I try to stay a bit below my goal. I figure some days I'm over-estimating, some days I'm under-estimating, but as long as I'm losing what I expect then it must be averaging out OK.0 -
Lying to yourself, wearing blinders to the issue and denying you have a problem is what got you to the point of unhappiness within yourself in the first place. If you plan on carrying those damaging traits here, then what's the point?0
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At one point I did. I will be honest I felt very ashamed of some of the so called demon foods i was eating. AKA poptarts, icecream, ect. I felt like if i ate these things I was being judged or letting people down. i was only holding myself back. There is no such thing as a demon food. If i eat it then I am going to log it and if others don't like it unfriend me 0
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Problem is there are way too many incorrect foods in the data base. so if you dont like one and are desperate you can just pick another that has fewer calories. This may look good on screen but does nothing on the scale.0
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Great advice. I log everything I eat because if I don't then not only am I not honest but, I am defeating my purpose. THIS EQUATES TO FAILURE0
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Why would I lie to myself?
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i dont lie. i log my 800 cal days, my 1200 cal days, and my 5000 cal days... why lie to myself, the truth shows in my weight loss, or lack of it...0
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If you are lying on your diary, you are only lying to yourself. If you are, I am betting that this is not the first diet you are cheating/failing on, and it will not be your last.0
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I log everything and some days it is less than 1000 calories but sometimes quite a bit more - when I have a couple of beers. If you look at the calorie calculators, you will find a huge difference in the allowable calories depending on age and height. A 60 year old 5ft tall woman requires waaaay fewer calories to maintain than a 5'6" tall 20 year old so don't be so quick to judge another person's diet.
Also wanted to vent a bit about logging everything - it's a little scary - like Flo from Progressive trying to get us to plug in a device to track our driving habits to determine our insurance rates. Is health insurance far behind? Will Blue Cross see me tracking my couple of beers a week and start charging me a premium or see that I am overweight or eat a little too much sugar and adjust my premiums? Again, just a little scary to think about the implications of logging everything on an Internet program.0 -
Sometimes I will use the quick tools and just put in the calories. Not so much now because I am watching macros more. But, the scale knows, whether or not you log0
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Used to. Intentionally logged in less beer and ice-cream than I consumed. Thing is, if you're altering the log, it's probably a sign that the food in question should be avoided; I did so and the fat's been coming off.0
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I log everything I eat and I eat 2000-2200 cals a day. I do leave a couple hundred calories there for the times I wake up in the middle of the night and want a small snack, so sometimes that's not logged because I'm too tired to stare into a bright screen but I know what macros I have left before I consume them. I try to be honest with myself so I log my binges as well, I'm not afraid of the red numbers and it helps me in the long run to be able to go back and look at those days to see what I can do differently. I also eat whatever I want within my macros so if I'm having a craving sometimes my meals look odd (pork chops with a side of donuts lol) but it works for me.0
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I will admit it. I do lie. I use the calorie log as a tool, not as a law. For example, let's say I have eaten 1000 calories one day, burned off 500 by walking and I have spaghetti for dinner. I know there aren't 3000 calories in a single bowl of spaghetti so I don't bother logging it.0
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"Lying" on your food diary only hurts you. That is their problem anyway.0
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