Seriously considering at stopping the logging.

Don't let the logging control you. I was like that at the beginning, feeling guilty if I went over, tearing the cupboards apart to meet the calorie goal. You are already doing the hard part, and that is eating correctly.

For me it's the accountability like others have said. It's also the routine. If I fall out of my routine, it could lead me back to where I started. I'm a mechanic, so to me, this logging is another tool in the toolbox helping me towards my goal. If I don't need it, I don't need it. But it is a tool I use all the time, and I am in control of it.

Hang in there!

I know I'm logging for life and I'm totally ok with that, when I stopped last Oct I thought I'll be ok, I went through Christmas and was ok I weighed every 2 weeks but then Jan, Feb and Mar were realky wet and miserable and I wasn't walking as far and winter comfort food was on the menu.
By the end of Mar my jeans and work trousers were tight so I weighed, which I'd gotten slack on too, and I'd gained 6lbs so I went straight back to logging and in the last 115 days of logging I got back to maintenance and have moved my goal down another 7lbs but I'm going slowly and I've actually decided to maintain for a few weeks just to have a little break and see how maintainance feels, but I've seen how those cals can creep back on and I'm not going to be one of those people who in 5 yrs time has 30 lbs gone back on, I'm not losing weight again in my life, but I will always be accountable and know what goes into my body and I more than happy to log what I eat to keep this shape I have now.

I think I've changed my mind, I've already started stacking off with the logging and suddenely gained over 3 pounds, and havent got enough infomation recorded to work out where I got wrong.

Oh well, lesson learnt, worth the thought, and well done to anyone that successfuly has done it..

Oh happy day ... another successful end to a post )

Every single time i stop logging.. I GAIN weight.. ug.. so like maybe i stop for a few days or a week or 2.... but at least i should check in once a week or 2 weeks and if my weight went up. i just start logging again..

Well good luck with that. Logging is the only thing that reins me in and stops me from eating too much.

If you feel you no longer need to log/it's just not working for you then you must do what is right for you. For me, I feel I have my eating under control, however, I feel I would slowly begin to slip into my old habits again so I'm probably in this for the long haul.

I think constant logging in the long-term just slows down your metabolism, keeps you feeling cold and miserable, and even unplanned weight loss.

How would logging your food slow down your metabolism??? Or lead to an unplanned weight loss??? Assuming, of course, that you're eating to an appropriate daily surplus of calories.

Letting your body tell you when it's time to eat, and not your diary.

Anyway my eating habits have changed completely, I eat completely different foods these days, im happy with it, it's just common sense how to control your eating habitswhen you do when you been already been logging for over 200 days like me.

I know WHEN my body wants to eat, logging helps me see if I'm feeding it what it NEEDS. I just got back from a two week trip and when I didn't have access to the Internet I wrote down what I ate. I'm now entering in everything I had and there were a few days I came ->thisclose<- to going over and one day I completely misjudged the calories on something (I was thinking about 700 or 800 and because I had worked out that day I "knew" I was okay calorie-wise, turns out it was 1090, eek). I've been doing this for 112 days and I still need the program.