poll: Do you log all food and beverage consumption?

I am in a different place than you, I don't need to lose weight anymore.

No I don't log everything. I don't log all the coffee or tea I drink... but I do approximate my water intake. I don't log spices, artificial sweetener, zero calorie cooking oil, or condiments. I don't measure my food... why be exact when food labels are not exact... proven fact that food labels are only an approximation. The FDA only regulates content of food labels to a given % of accuracy. I make a pot of soup divide the ingredients into four and add them to my diary every day I consume the soup... even if it takes me 5 or six day to finish the pot... for me EVERYTHING is an approximation.

All that said... I log my food every day. It is how I don't over-eat and monitor my protein and sugar intake... not to mention, logging helps me to "not forget" that I had that bowl of soup or extra toast in the morning.

Whatever works is my motto!

This has worked for me and helped me achieve and maintain my weight loss. I obsess enough about everything I eat, if I weighed and measured my food for every meal I think my mind would explode!

I try and do EVERYTHING and often overestimate hard-to-log items like restaurant meals. Even when I binge on crap that I'd be embarrassed for my IRL friends to know, I log it here. And in some strange way it makes me feel better!

Yes. Hold yourself accountable. the point of the diary, right?!

Yes, because I have macro goals I need to meet each day and this is the tool I use to do so.

At the beginning, yes. Now, not so much. Being primarily in maintenance mode (there are a few vanity pounds left), I can't be bothered to weigh and measure each and every thing.

I log but its not accurate

Yes. Everything. Every day.

I log everything I eat and drink. I want to get an accurate picture of were my calories and fat come from. As well as make sure I increase my fiber and protein.

I log everything.

I log all food and beverage intake as accurately as possible. I use a food scale when I can. I even came up with a system to make sure (or attempt) to get all 8 cups of water in during my day.

I log Cardio (morning and afternoon). But I do NOT log all of my weight room exercises because it became tedious, plus I change it up a lot; "Ain't nobody got time fo dat"...

Food...yes

Beverages only soda pop, which I drink a Zero or Max but the reason I log them is to know when I've had one, so I know if my sugar (diabetes) goes off target so I can see what did I drink or eat differently that day.

I very rarely drink anything but water now. I count my coffee when I have one, which is about 3 maybe 4 times a week, because it has calories.

I used to.... but after 850+ days I tend to miss logging my dinner.
I also tend to miss logging my beer/alchy... however I do track it when I am drinking it to stay in calories.

What is the point of logging if you're not going to be accurate? You might as well just keep a running total in your head. The way I look at it, you either log accurately or go home (along the lines of you either lift heavy or go home) Cheating on your log only means you're cheating yourself and no one else.

EH, I tend not to go back and put in my midnight snack. I'm a terrible person. Honestly, I so rarely drink anything with sugar or calories, I forget to log when I do because I'm just not used to logging beverages.

Did not know that about the tea. I have a couple cups of decaf a day.

I'm maintaining now, but I have a tendency to get out of hand if I don't track. I don;t weigh and measure and I use my dairy as a guesstimate and more for my macros which are more important to me than my average calories.