Do you ever get tired of logging your food?

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.

NO I dont get tired of it.. When I first started this I would pop on and off and not record anything.. I starting noticing peoples comments and weight loss. So I decided to record everything I eat. Before wasn't really paying attention but then last week I decided to give it an honest effort. BEFORE I would eat something I checked the calorie count and W-O-W I was surprised at some of the stuff.. Now I record everything and I find its better because if you don't you will go over your calories. I am proud to say I have lost 6.6 pounds this week (my first week) I haven't done any exercising yet due to fatigue ( extremely low vitamin counts) I know its only been a week BUT I am logging everything and know its better for me to do so. Goos luck and enjoy the site.

I don't mind it, don't always log online most days though. I'm old skool and write mine down in a little memo book. Starting doing this when I first made a commitment to lose weight back in 2004.

The biggest thing for me and I'm still guilty of this are overdoing portions. Every once in a while I stall, get a reality check, then realize I need to check the food scale or get out my tablespoon.

yes and I still do actually I rarely get on here to log anythin i mostly get on here for the support of friends i have a really good memory so I remember eveything. But for you you could just jotdown the food real fast and at the end of the day u can log it all at one time if u want

tbh-it gets tedious trying to log everything. but i find when i dont do it, i fall off the wagon so to speak. when i log, im much more aware of what im eating and my portion sizes. in all of the times ive tried to lose weight, this is the first time ive ever tried logging (thanks to my friend summer who gave me the link to this super helpful and awesome site!) and this time i think its actually working.

Nope, I love logging. Seriously.

This! Me too! I find it like a game, a puzzle of sorts to fit all the pieces (ratios) in each day to be my healthiest.

I like to know what's going in my body, when I've not logged, I can roughly guess to some extent but I much prefer keeping a log.