For the guys...women can answer to :-)

Hi all--a first post, but I've lurked for several months now.

Some have written along the same vein...Why is he not logging himself? Not to say you can't lose weight sans tracking, but making a personal commitment to log on a site such as MFP (and browse the forums, learn the lingo, develop a radar for bullsh**, etc.) indicates a strong desire to see whatever goals through and opens the logger to engagement with personal data, informed food choices, and accountability.

And fine, fine--maybe he doesn't want to track his food (sounds like that is what is happening now). That could be because he is not interested in putting forth the effort to lose the weight. Or maybe he is interested, but not to the point that it overcomes a desire for lots and lots of food. I think you need to be okay with this. It seems like he is being verbally and at home accountable to you, but not personally accountable.

I would go ahead and stop logging for him. At this point the logging is only for your data purposes--you've said that he chooses what he'd like to eat and that's that. He might miss the data you were able to provide and start logging for himself, including whatever food you don't know about (should that exist). He can engage with it as he wishes and use the data to ask his own pointed questions.

You don't even need to see his log should he start one. Because he may be eating more than you know during the day, I'd actually recommend against it for a few months unless he asks you to check it out. If he ends up logging and jumps into the MFP world like you have, think of how great it will be to navigate the finer points of weight loss/health/athleticism together.

It's also difficult for anyone to glean much when we cannot see a log. Of which one doesn't exist. Because you can't know everything he eats during the day. And that's okay

If it is in fact water weight--awesome. But he should still log himself if he wants a food log in his weight loss toolbox.