Anyone on here doing this without logging? Or only logging certain foods?

You are much more disciplined than me!! I log everything! But I'm also a meat eater and meat lover and I'm type 2 diabetic. I try to keep my carbs down especially from processed foods. It's hard most days.

I log about 1x/month to see where a "typical" day puts me...but before that, I was obsessively logging on here for 2.5 years. Became way too toxic for me mentally.

I need to log everything to keep track. Sometimes I use the quick tools to just add in the calories but I do log them

Just out of curiosity, how many calories do you allow yourself to have of the "bad stuff"? How can you be sure you're not going over with everything you're not logging? I'm asking these questions because I'm really curious. It would be nice to one day have a similar mindset about food myself.

I joined this because of how easy it is to log everything. You can set up your whole day the night before or even the week before as a meal plan. I especially like the bar code scanning tool.

I stayed away from logging mostly this year due to a family problems. Now I am have put back on 10 lbs or more. Right now I am back with a vengeance and will not be stopping until I reach my goal. Had some blood work and my weight checked with my endocrinologist and her advice to me was: get that weight off, otherwise you will be looking at diabetes. That was enough to frighten the $***ts out of me. I am zig zagging my calories and logging everything.

I don't log anything, I occasionally quick add cals if I have a reason, I track sodium though. I've maintained my ideal weight for 4 years this way - through two pregnancies.

I only log on MFP occasionally, but I keep a written log every day. The MFP log is my plan for the day and lets me verify that I am on track. Or if I eat totally off plan, I might log to see the damage.

The written log doesn't have measurements and calorie counts, even though I do weigh and measure my food. It is just a list of the foods I plan to eat, then I cross off what I don't get around to and add in anything that wasn't on the plan. I generally don't need to be perfect to see results, I just need to be accountable.

I have tried logging everything but its just too difficult for me, I'm originally from West Africa and we cook without recipes and do not weight food per serving, everyone basically just dishes as much as they would like to eat. On occassions that I logged religiously, I had to just weight every ingredient then weight the whole food then divide into equal portions before throwing everything back into the pot after taking my portion, this is way too much work to do every single time. The other option was for me cook my own food seperately which means cooking twice; first for the family then for me, but with a baby, a fulltime day job and no help around the house what so ever, I can only do this occasionally.

I still try to eat around my deficit though, I found the MFP database very useful as it gives me a fair idea how many cals I am eating. My daily budget is 1200 cals so I just look for what ever I eat in the database and subtract it from 1200 and I know how much I still have for the rest of the day.

I also make it a hobby to learn the average cals in all kinds of foods so I have a fair idea approximately how much I am eating, I also over estimate just to be safe, if it says 100 cals per 20g serving and I ate a little over 20g for instance, I would subtract 30g which is 150 cals instead of say 120 or 130 cals.

I'm still a long way from perfecting what works for me but so far since I am still losing at a comforable pace, I'll stick to it. Just keep in mind that so long as your are not losing or rather gaining, you must be doing it wrong and restrategize.