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Has anyone ever noticed??
carimiller7391
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I was away over the weekend and also had a funeral on Tuesday... I didn't log food.. and I LOST. When I didn't log, I didn't find myself concentrating on food 24/7 and found it much easier to stay on track. Anyone else ever do this??
Hugs,
Carrie
Hugs,
Carrie
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Sometimes. I think that choosing the better choice any time I can helps, but I'm also not logging right now. Haven't in months. Started making me do exactly that - obsess about the details and throw everything down the toilet... LOL But, it has been up and down because I am not making the better choice each time, but I'm okay with that. Otherwise, when I focus on good choices, I do better than when I obsess... But that is so far. I know as I get further in, it gets harder to lose, and I have to do better overall...so for some of us with true eating problems, I think monitoring enough to get a really good idea of things, then stepping away so as not to obsess, that could be a good thing periodically, then check in to make sure we are still hitting the mark, etc.0
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I have noticed that too. This summer I lost on vacation for a week...not something I would have expected. I think part of it is if I don't log I am more careful to make healthier choices since I can't see the numbers to tell if I am doing ok.
I do find that lately I seem to becoming a bit obsessive about logging (holiday baking and trying to log every taste) and I think it is because of this that I am always thinking about when I can eat next and if it will fit in my calories. My husband and I discussed it and we are both considering taking a break over the week from christmas to new years and just trying to maintain. Since my weight has dropped under 200 lbs I seem to have to work so much harder to burn a decent amount of calories in a work out. What used to take 30-40 minutes is taking 60. I realize this is because I am in better shape but I do miss getting awesome burns from lugging around a 100lb weight while exercising!0 -
I have been down the obsessive road before and am trying to do it different this time. I ate 4 doritos today. I'll be damned if I am logging them. I know I am under cals and thats all that matters. But I do personally need the structure of the logging as I forget myself if I dont. I hope one day to be able to walk away from logging though0
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I find that if I don't log, I don't lose. I tend to eat whatever I want, fogetting that I already ate whatever I wanted earlier that day. I will probably have to log my whole life. I saw someone on MFP comparing it to having to balance your checkbook your whole life.0
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Maybe the logging is just a training tool for some people, to make us more "mindful" eaters.
I don't like to log, but if I don't, I really can't remember what I ate or how many calories I consumed.
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I am very much a creature of habit. If I have a toasted English muffin with hummus, I almost always eat exactly 2 oz. of hummus. No matter how it plays out - loading the bites or barely scraping it... It is odd. So I know if I eat that for breakfast almost exactly how many calories and such it is. And this is quite common. Or cheese and crackers. I get the same crackers, eat about 1.5 oz of cheese to 4-8 crackers, again, I know how many cals it is. So when I eat, I just try to keep the calorie ranges about the same 350-400 for breakfast, 150 for snack, 400-500 lunch, 150 pm snack, balance in dinner/after dinner treat if allowable... so when I stick to this, I do alright. If I toss in more somewhere, I make certain I write it down somewhere. My brain is strange in that if I write it down, I remember 98.5% of the time... So I just always try to keep an "idea" of where I aim for my meals. If I'm starving at anyone meal, I try to balance it with another meal by swapping estimated/allowed cals... Yes, I screw up, yes, sometimes I don't care, but the obsessive measuring of everything was ruining my health goals and my relationship, and my enjoyment of anything resembling free time, so I gave it up for a bit. I'll get back to it soon enough, but I cannot live measuring down to the microgram on everything for the rest of my life. So I've embraced the mantra - lose the way you will maintain. So if my goal is not to have to measure when maintaining, I have to lose not measuring, if that makes sense... But I am my own bundle of weird me, so I am NOT anyone else, and I would never suggest anyone who has a successful thing going to copy me, because it isn't foolproof, and it works for me, but I don't know any/many of people who share my own particular flavor of wacky, so it wouldn't translate directly... LOL
KAREN - great to see you again!! (HUGS)0 -
I'm logging less right now, just cause it's hard to keep track of all the naughtiness I'm engaging in, lol. But, I've been at it for a long time now (2 years) so for me, it's become a complete lifestyle change. I'm proceeding very slowly but steadily.
At first, though, constant logging helped establish the habits I'm living now. So, yes. I have noticed. Now I don't have to think about it.
And, like Carly said, I balance my naughtiness. And, I lose the way I maintain. It took a long time to get here though.0
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