Stressed about logging

You can also add recipes you make often to speed things up as well! Feel free to add me. I have an open diary to help with accountability.

Try typing. Exact name brand. Typically. This App. Is very intuit on many reasturants. Also food from many.
Grocery. Retailers. When you cook pomade there is also that choice. Scroll through all option on food you can usually find what you're searching. for. After a while the app will know your habit and choices in food. It will be easy after that.So good luck with the App. It will get to know.you. Personally I love it....

Be very very VERY careful of using "home made" entries because often the info is incomplete at best and way off at worst...you have no way of verifying what it is... I'm using a "home made" one for chili now because I did not keep track of what I put into it while making it, and I am being very cautious with my caloric intake elsewhere, lol.- but normally if you make your own you need to log each item in the recipe individually then divide the total nutrition info by the number of servings. There are a number of recipe tools that will do this for you including this one on My Fitness Pal. http://www.myfitnesspal.com/recipe/calculator

It is tedious when you are getting started. As others have said if you get into a rhythm of eating similar foods (I usually have the same of 3 different meals for breakfast, for instance) it is easy to just select stuff you've already eaten.

i've been logging 363 days, use the frequent list and the recipe builder. These days my logging take about 5 mins tops

Codilee87 wrote: »

Well, one thing about eating healthy is you'll often find yourself eating the same foods on a regular basis (which can get boring but is really quite helpful when trying to stay on track) So you can just look up your 'frequently used' foods, check all the boxes that apply and you're done. You may need to make small adjustments for weight/portion size but otherwise its pretty much automatic.

I totally agree. I've found that I eat similar foods now. I recently selected a meal based on how easy it would be to log, but I don't do that everyday.

I'm considering this a six-week program. So I'm basically eating the same foods all the time. 8 oz of low-sodium V-8 juice and Dannon Greek yogurt in the morning, a protein shake with mashed banana and granola for lunch, and who knows what for dinner. I cook, freeze, and plan in advance, which makes it easier to log. Once in a while I wander, but it's very easy to add. I don't mind eating the same stuff all the time as long as I like it. And it definitely makes it easier to log.

stainlessneil wrote: »

During the working week I eat the same thing for breakfast and for my 2 meal breaks at work everyday. Once you've entered all the components in once, then you can click 'save meal' and save it as whatever name you want. For instance, I have a meal called "breakfast and morning coffee" which consists of 180g muesli, 300ml milk and a 300ml latte. Then all you have to do is just add that one meal each day. I have a similar thing with my lunch meals and my post workout shakes. Then the only thing I have to add manually each day is dinner, because that always varies.

Thanks for the tip. I haven't used the 'save meal' option yet, but I also eat the same breakfast during the work week.

I love logging In the beginning I do start out with similar things every day. A salad, chicken, protein bars and protein shakes, fruit ect. After a few weeks my recent foods are all there and I just have to click on them=)

I use the bar code scanner a lot tells me portions and automatically logs on my diary

I simply don't care for the recipes. I calculate the calories for what I make / eat and add it with quick add. It's just a tool to track the amount. I try to eat 'right', I do like to eat everything so I don't keep track of everything. The whole log's purpose, to me, is simply to track the amount - if I eat what and how much feels right it would be double the amount. Quick add works for me.