putting foods into diary

If I put in what I WANT to eat for the day, I can use the computer's calorie count to keep me close to my goal. Otherwise I might eat too many calories for lunch and can only squeeze in less than 200 calories at dinner, making me too hunger for the rest of the evening. This way I can budget calories for breakfast, snacks, and dinner proportions

I do. Advanced planing allows me to know what I can eat and prevents me form getting to dinner and realising that i have no calories left!

planning ahead has really made it easy for me. It gives me all the numbers right there and if I see where I need to make any changes I can do it ahead of time instead of finding out after the fact. It is easy for me as we are not ones to go out and eat anyways and I am home pretty much all day, every day unless we go to do our shopping or errands. Planning meals ahead of time is not hard for us to do here.

I put the calories in right before I eat. This way I know if I have enough for a snack. I gots ta have me a snack before sleep!!

A lot of the time I have the whole week planned out, sometimes even the week after. At least I used to do that until they made the recent updates and took away "Copy Recent" and "Copy Yesterday", now I'm not sure what to do. I might make little adjustments once I get to that day but I think planning ahead is makes a huge difference. If I have a plan I'm far more likely to it stick to it. Also it makes going grocery shopping a lot easier since I know what I need for that week or two.

I do it sometimes. My problem is that I'll eat too little throughout the day and after working out, I have too many calories left over for dinner that I just can't eat. So to make sure I'm eating enough, and to make sure I'm getting a healthy balance of carbs and protein, I'll plan out my pre-dinner meals and make sure to leave an amount I can eat for dinner. I do leave room for flexibility, though... I don't always stick to it 100%, but it usually helps me focus. And because I tend to overeat on carbs and undereat on protein, it's done wonders for helping me increase me protein to better levels. It works for me!

I never can plan out the day, wish I could. 10 years ago I did when I had Daycare in my home. But sometimes I get my dinner in before or during fixing it, then I add my snack and make myself stick to it. SO I can just be done and not have to get on here late. But if I don't then I come back the next day and change it.

I usually do before because what I eat doesn't vary a lot from day to day. Sometimes I log the night before so I can plan for something I really want to eat, like a dessert or something. I guess it depends on the person, but for me, I usually stick to it fairly well most days that I log ahead of time.

I pack my lunch the night before so I go ahead and log everything while I am planning what to make. This has really helped make sure I am packing nutritionally balanced meals and snacks. It also saves me from getting to the end of the day and realizing that I am significantly over on calories, sodium, etc.

I typically make breakfast the night before to take to work, so I log that before I head to bed. Then I typically map out my dinner in downtimes I'm waiting for my system at work to load stuff as I process daily reports, so dinner is usually planned out and entered before lunch. Then I add in my lunch when I chose which meal I'm gonna have outta my bag of them in the freezer at work. And I have the same dessert every single night, so I sometimes enter that days ahead or at least by the time I enter dinner.

The only variables are the snacks I eat while at work. But I have a stash of personal snacks in my drawer at work so I always had a rough idea of what I'll be having (calorie-wise) with those each day, but choose based on my mood.

If I'm going out to eat someplace with friends at any point, I go online as soon as a location is picked, decide on my menu choice and get that entered, so sometimes I have those meals entered weeks in advance. The only thing entered even more in advance were thanksgiving dinner and Christmas dinner, which I entered almost two months in advance in sheer anticipation of the meals. lol

I do it keeps me on track, and by the end of the day I only eat what is left on my diary for that day.

I often do so I can spread the calories out, but for example today, I am on a wine-tasting course and have to factor that into my daily needs - making it even more important to plan ahead.

I don't stick rigidly to the plan, but with the phone app it is relatively easy to change (and the copy meal function is there to make life easier).