What do you do when you don't want to calorie count?

Why don't you want to?

I gain weight.

Once in awhile when I feel the need to "take a break" I'll just do portion control , only eat when hungry and stop eating when full. I'm good at keeping track of calories in my head anyway so I always have a loose tally going on. Once you really get good at counting it becomes second nature and you don't have to depend on an app so much. No biggie.

speak for yourself! :laugh:

I don't count. I eat from memory. What I know to be a roughly X calorie day.

I eat a small set of breakfasts generally. So I choose one from that.

I eat from a slightly larger set of lunches. So I choose one from that.

And then I choose wisely for dinner. Maybe eyeball a few things in the database and then go from there.

So for me, pick one of my standard "go to breakfasts", one of my standard "go to lunches", my "go to snacks" and then a dinner that roughly takes care of the remainder of the calories, or just a protein the size of a deck of cards, and some vegetables and call it good.

I do it anyway. Not doing things because I don't feel like it is what got me overweight in the first place. I plan my breakfast and lunch for the week ahead of time so the only meal I have to actually record during the week is dinner.

Once in awhile when I feel the need to "take a break" I'll just do portion control , only eat when hungry and stop eating when full. I'm good at keeping track of calories in my head anyway so I always have a loose tally going on. Once you really get good at counting it becomes second nature and you don't have to depend on an app so much. No biggie.

I do this as well, which I think is an excellent thing to practice once in a while! I went on a vacation for a week, and of course this makes tracking near impossible. I just used my intuitive eating skills. Eat when hungry, stop when satisfied. Water only.

Once in awhile when I feel the need to "take a break" I'll just do portion control , only eat when hungry and stop eating when full. I'm good at keeping track of calories in my head anyway so I always have a loose tally going on. Once you really get good at counting it becomes second nature and you don't have to depend on an app so much. No biggie.

speak for yourself! :laugh:

So in your 3 years here and 93 pound weight loss you still haven't gotten the hang of this? I find that hard to believe...

I consistently under-eyeball portions these days. Which for a one-off day is no biggie but if I were to do it consistently would be not so great. I may have registered 3 years ago but I only really started using MFP in 2013. Some of us just don't estimate well. Kudos to you for not being one of us, I guess.

No, I said I don't have to depend on the app SO MUCH....and I only eyeball portions SOMETIMES meaning once a month or so :laugh: Trust me I still need to weigh and measure. But once in awhile its doable like you said. I'm definitely not doing that on a regular basis, too nerve wracking!!! lol

I don't count my calories. I found that counting calories drove me crazy. I DO use my food scale though. I make sure that I don't eat more than a serving size at meals. Some people say that it still is a form of calorie counting and I agree to some extent. The thing is that where this is all a lifestyle change, I needed to find some way that I could manage my portions without driving me crazy. Using the food scale only is what works for me.

I gain weight.

This happens.

Love the Bob Ross ticker, by the way!

if i was okay with gaining the weight back