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My last 13 pounds

hancy_caceres
hancy_caceres Posts: 45 Member
edited November 2024 in Health and Weight Loss
Today started out great.. Went for 11.4mile bike ride than ran 4.85 miles! Later I learned that I wasn't logging my food correctly, I went a bought a food scale but don't know how to log it! I got so upset and ate A BUNCH OF FAT FOOD!!

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  • ana3067
    ana3067 Posts: 5,623 Member
    Weigh food and look for entries that use grams or oz for measurement. If you can't find one for packaged item then etiher make your own private entry in grams/oz or do the math (e.g. if your cereal lists 30g but you take 24g, then that's 0.8 for the serving; or if you take 42g then that's 1.4 servings).

    Just get back to logging as best you can tomorrow.
  • janejellyroll
    janejellyroll Posts: 25,763 Member
    Have you read the stickied posts in this forum? You don't need to reinvent the wheel here. Check out those posts, they explain a lot.

    You can do this.
  • TimothyFish
    TimothyFish Posts: 4,925 Member
    If it's going to get you that upset, I wouldn't mess with weighing the food. Oh wait...I don't weigh food anyway.
  • SergeantSausage
    SergeantSausage Posts: 1,673 Member
    Define "FAT FOOD".

    Justify your answer: why do you think FAT FOOD is a problem.

    (HINT: It's not)
  • hancy_caceres
    hancy_caceres Posts: 45 Member
    Cookies, fried chicken wings.. Chips, Taco Bell, crackers sweets..ect..
  • AmyRhubarb
    AmyRhubarb Posts: 6,890 Member
    So if you get a flat tire on your car, do you get out and slash the three good ones? Of course not - so why do essentially the same thing with eating?

    By the way, I eat cookies, fried chicken, Taco Bell, crackers, sweets, etc all the time. Sometimes I go over. I did yesterday, and am again today. This does NOT undo progress or make me a failure - tomorrow's a new day and I'll do better, no big deal.

    Good on ya for getting a food scale - it's a great tool and very helpful in being more accurate with logging food - even when you go over. :wink:
  • hancy_caceres
    hancy_caceres Posts: 45 Member
    AmyRhubarb wrote: »
    So if you get a flat tire on your car, do you get out and slash the three good ones? Of course not - so why do essentially the same thing with eating?

    By the way, I eat cookies, fried chicken, Taco Bell, crackers, sweets, etc all the time. Sometimes I go over. I did yesterday, and am again today. This does NOT undo progress or make me a failure - tomorrow's a new day and I'll do better, no big deal.

    Good on ya for getting a food scale - it's a great tool and very helpful in being more accurate with logging food - even when you go over. :wink:



    You're AWESOME! Thank you for making me feel better!!
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