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Tracking Confessions - I'll go 1st
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I only track exercises.0
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I don't log "tastes" while I'm cooking meals. I mean, I have to make sure it tastes good right? Plus, I usually log whole portions of food but my kids always sample part of my food. Like this morning. I was having toast for breakfast and made 2 pieces. I ate 1.5 because my 1 year old wanted it when he saw it. I also don't own a food scale so I estimate everything.
Since I'm still losing weight, I'm ok with that. If I plateau, I'll have to get one. grrrrr....
Yesterday, I was eating cantaloupe for breakfast. My kids all wanted some of my cantaloupe and all I had was a serving. I almost cried when I had to give some of it up, I was so hungry. But I had to log a serving because I couldn't figure out how much I ate and how much they ate. Little parasites!
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I used to eat ice cream every Sunday night to prep for my new diet that started every Monday!0
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I made homemade lasagna for dinner last night and didn't feel like doing the work necessary to figure out accurate calories. So I just borrowed someone else's homemade lasagna from the database. I figure it's close enough. I'm usually pretty meticulous about weighing stuff so one off-kilter entry shouldn't kill me.0
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I sometimes eat Hershey's kisses at work and don't log them. It's usually only 1 maybe 2 of the dark chocolate kind though.0
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I sometimes eat Hershey's kisses at work and don't log them. It's usually only 1 maybe 2 of the dark chocolate kind though.
Mmmmmm... those are the best!0 -
My tracking for the last week oscillated between vaguely recollected and non-existent. I'm paying for it though- I gained seven pounds.0
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I don't log the drink of milk I take before I do my morning walk.0
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I'm a perfectionist - one day of going over my calories would wreak havoc in my brain (sad, I know). If it gets to the end of the day and I have no calories left but I need something to eat... I add something to my exercise log, like cleaning I did during the day, or mowing the yard. Things I wouldn't normally add as exercise, just enough to be able to have a snack.
I am also a perfectionist and feel very similarly!! I act like my calorie goal is the LAW...but I also log little piddly stuff if I am close to going over, but not quite. Moving around boxes at work for 10 minutes is such a tiny thing but I'll log 10 min of light cleaning at least...just to eat another tiny cheese wedge LOL0 -
After reading some of these I feel like a real Ahole!! I will go whole weekends without logging anything!! If I were to do so I know my beer intake alone would surpass my daily allowed calories!0
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And that's why I don't log my beer! Lol0
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Amen Sister!! I am a big IPA fan and most of those are 250 calories each.( at least the good ones!! )And that's why I don't log my beer! Lol0 -
If I end up eating all my breakfast for the week on Saturday (I eat bars). I still log it for the next Monday thru Friday.
It ends up being the same calories for the week, but I just don't like those red numbers.
I do something like this occasionally. If I have a late night snack that sets me over a fair amount, I'll log it on the next day.
If I make a recipe where I know I'll be eating the whole thing and portion it out, any crumbs/small pieces that fall off are fair game for an emergency snack at any time and don't get logged separately (or subtracted from the portion).0 -
if you dont log it, it didnt happen
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I buy those large containers of yogurt and weigh out one serving when I'm ready to eat it. Sometimes, I weigh out a serving, but I have some residual yogurt on the spoon, so I eat that too and don't log it.0
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Sometimes I don't like seeing the junk food I eat on my log so if I eat say a 190 calorie candy bar I will log 190 calories of vegetables/protein instead. :ohwell:0
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Amen Sister!! I am a big IPA fan and most of those are 250 calories each.( at least the good ones!! )And that's why I don't log my beer! Lol
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When weighing my kettle corn or kashi cereal, if a few peices hit the counter, i eat them. Also, hummus- whatever sticks to the spoon is log-free!0
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<----also doesn't log beer on weekends or tastes of this or that. :drinker:0
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Once I measure out yogurt/sour cream/peanut butter and lick the spoon, that doesn't get logged0
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I don't log gum (and I eat a lot of it to keep from snacking) and I don't log the salt I put on my food. I'm scared to see the sodium number go that high.0
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I flossed and didn't weigh the floss before and after so I couldn't subtract and eat back the calories I missed from that. I'll probably be hitting starvation mode any minute now.
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Im a food hoard. For example i make popcorn on the regular and i can have 5cups for 100cals (theyre 100 cal bags) and if my boyfriend asks for a handful i always have to be a jerk and say "nope, cant, its counted." I also hate when i have something good at work for dinner and my friends at work ask to try it and i have to hand some over......like uggghhhh that was COUNTED. Im also a spoon licker. 0
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If I miss a day I tell myself "Oh well better start over on Monday." For some reason I feel like I can only start things on Mondays.
Missing Tuesday makes for a delicious week of self-loathing.
theres an 'x all the y' meme's about this lol0 -
You guys are MONSTERS I tell you! lol
I am good at logging for a bit and then I have a bad eating day and I fall off my wagon. Then it takes me forever to get back on it.
No wonder I'm stalled.0 -
I do reverse cheating. I'll log a face yogurt 2% instead of the 0%… Or an 8 oz steak instead of a 6 oz. i'll exercise an extra 15 minutes and not log that amount.
I'd rather go over a bit on these thing.s…to make up for any slip-ups in food labels and of course operator error.0 -
I lick the spoon when measuring out gelato... Then I lick the bowl so nothing goes to waste.
That's how it's supposed to be done! :drinker:0 -
I don't log alcohol. At all. Even when I drink a lot.0
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- I'm not super meticulous with my morning coffee logging. I measured out the amount of cream needed to make it to my liking once, and now I just guesstimate by looking at the color.
- I measure/weigh out frozen yogurt, gelato, ice cream etc., but before doing so I take a spoonful out of the container (for quality control purposes of course) that I don't log.0 -
I just made flapjacks - for a charity bake sale. All of the calories went into the whole flapjacks, didn't they? There can't possibly be any in the 2 broken ones I ate, can there? (I tried to resist, I really did, but they smelt so good!)
Well, if I don't log them they aren't real, right? 0
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