Do you ever get tired of logging your food?

Honestly, I'm tired of it all. I'm so sick of MFP. It's an addiction and taking over my life.

At the start of my weight loss I didn't log my food/exercise but I didn't know about this website either. However, it is helpful to log your food especially when you get closer towards your goal weight. It gets harder to lose the pounds so watching what you eat and being able to look back at what you ate is helpful.

I get tired of it at times. The way my work schedule is sometimes. But I find when I Don't I have weight gain. I pay closer attention to amounts eaten etc. when I do it. I have the App on my Phone so it makes it so much easier to do. Good Luck in your Journey!

I occasionally stop blogging every couple of days, when I already know the calories in the food that i am eating. I also do this to stop myself from being obsessed with counting calories and tearing myself apart if I eat too much. Stress is a factor that prevents weight lost and the less stress i can have in my life the better. Personally I feel logging is stressful in its own way.

I log most days, but there are days that I don't close out, because I don't feel like it. I also keep track ,all day, of what I eat on a piece of paper...I just don't feel like entering all that at the end of the day!

I think the problem when you don't keep track of what you eat, whether in a daily tracker or on this site is that you lose track of calorie counts and so on and it is easy to slip into bad eating habits, at least that is what has happened with me and before I knew it I was gaining weight.

Nope, I love logging. Seriously.

I should add I am also a nerd. I'm an accounting major, I like numbers. I even make a spreadsheet each month detailing what I spent on groceries.

Ditto... nerdy accountant over here who loves the logging!! Such a loser!

Personally, I enjoy the logging, it keeps me in check. This is/was an important thing for me to finally lose weight and i can honestly say that this website and fatsecret.com are the single reasons why it got done (i started at that site, came to this about halfway through).

That being said, I started this with my wife. She was on mfp for a couple months until she lost the 25 lbs she wanted to lose and has not been back sense. We both changed our heating habits completely so she doesn't have to log anymore and she hasn't been an ounce back on.

To each his own I guess.

Nope, I love logging. Seriously.

I should add I am also a nerd. I'm an accounting major, I like numbers. I even make a spreadsheet each month detailing what I spent on groceries.

Ditto... nerdy accountant over here who loves the logging!! Such a loser!

MFP: Nerdy Losers Unite!!

I don't much mind logging. I find it an interesting challenge at times to come up with healthy meal options that still taste incredible, especially while being mindful of the sodium.

That said, there's times when I'd love nothing more than to sit down with a block of cheese and a box of crackers, or a jar of salsa and bag of nachos, and just nibble away without thinking about it.

Since I'm pretty much at goal (135 was my original goal, and 130 a pie in the sky number), I think I might start having "No Log Weekends" and see how that goes. Stick with my regular logged eating plan during the week (set for a half pound loss), and follow my instincts on the weekend. I was always pretty decent at maintaining my weight (until life through me major curveballs that lead to depression), and that was without any kind of regular exercise. Now that I'm a running fool, it should be easier.

I'm not tired yet this time around. I lost weight in a previous effort by logging my calories, only then there wasn't a site like this or such a thing as phone apps. I kept an Excel spreadsheet and looked up nutrition information in a book I had to carry around. I managed to do it for about 3 months, and lost steadily, but life intervened and I stopped logging.

For a while, I was able to control portions and know in my head what my approximate daily calorie intake was. But, bit by bit, I backslid. Underestimated what I was eating, overestimated ingredient amounts in my cooking, assuming that I was ordering healthy in restaurants just because I was not ordering fried foods and sweets.

And, no surprise, the pounds returned. This time around is SO much easier! If I'm in front of my computer, I can log easily. And if I'm away, I have the phone app so I can log in a really short amount of time...MFP autocalculates stuff I used to have to compute myself, which is great.

I admit there have been times when I "didn't wanna" bother to log, but then I remember that this is a way that really does work for me to lose weight, and that compared to what I used to do, this is a snap. So far, that's been enough to keep me entering my calories in and out.

DO I EVER!!! ...about 6 months or so after i reached goal i went about two years without logging before my pants started feeling too tight again -- so yes i do get tired of it... but if I get too complacent about it , i know sooner or later i have to start again anyway :yawn:

I've only been doing this for 53 days. Daily logging is a commitment to myself to stick to it. I'm not a very stick-to-it kinda guy; I tend to get distracted by the Next Big Thing and get bored with what I'm doing--jobs, books, diets. But this time I'm making a go of it, because #1 it's working and #2 it's kind of fun.

The only annoying part is when I eat out--it's almost impossible to guess the calories sometimes, so I just reserve 800 or 1000 for the meal and give it my best estimate.

Sometimes. But you know what I get tired of even more? Being fat and unhealthy.

Seriously, I love logging because it keeps me in control. It's the opposite of stress for me.

Sure I do. And, depending on your situation, your personality, and goals, you won't always have to. Its just a tool, like everything else, not a religion. Some people find it ESSENTIAL and others don't. I didn't log anything to lose my first 55 pounds. I stopped eating certain things and practiced visual portion control. I do it now to try and lose those last sticky pounds and...because...losing weight is tedious and BORING, and counting calories and logging meals gives me something new to do....to change things up.

If you are really experiencing it as a drudgery, and if you are more than halfway to goal, I'm going to be the lone dissenter and say...find another way. Once you've lost enough to retrain yourself and gain good habits the following is key: You will maintain the exact same way that you lose. People forget this all the time. And if logging every day is something that is more than a mild annoyance, but is something that you hate so much that you can't imagine doing it while maintaining, experiment with other ways that you will be more likely to keep.