Who's Willing To Admit This?
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I have occasionally eaten after hitting the complete entry button. I still add the food to the log. Nothing stops you from doing that.
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If you hit complete, then eat more, you just go in and add it, then complete again. Why would I cheat myself?0
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I get a report emailed from Fitbit every Sunday for the previous week. Keeping my food diary as honest as possible is major in getting an accurate weekly summary.
The reports are awesome!0 -
I rarely click it but when I have and then ate something else, it was only because I knew how many calories were remaining and I could still come in under goal. Sometimes I go ahead and log them, sometimes I don't.0
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I've been on here for three years and still do it.0
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If I eat after I hit the button, I just go back and add whatever I ate and hit the button again, no big deal. You just got to realize your only cheating yourself out of valuable data to look back on and figure out how or why your weight changed that week. I'm sure I miss things like lickign the peanut butter knife or the random piece of chocolate a coworker gives me so I try to add a small 100-200 calorie cushion in everyday.0
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rnohou2010 wrote: »How many of you have hit the "Complete Entry" button on your app at the end of the day and then continued to eat? I will be the first to admit I have done it on a number of occasions. I am only deceiving myself and hurting myself. Perhaps I should not hit the button until I am in bed with my teeth brushed!
Nah. I don't know how easy it is to change on the phone but, if you add more after your initial entry, you can change it and set up a new entry. When I have a really bad day, I just don't do an entry at all. That's what I have to work on.
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Optimistical1 wrote: »rnohou2010 wrote: »How many of you have hit the "Complete Entry" button on your app at the end of the day and then continued to eat? I will be the first to admit I have done it on a number of occasions. I am only deceiving myself and hurting myself. Perhaps I should not hit the button until I am in bed with my teeth brushed!
Anytime you see "Michelob Ultra", "skinny Margarita" "Lambrusco wine" oin my journal entries then most likely I have done this. Luckily I don't drink as much since starting MFP.
That's funny! I sometimes take a sleeping pill that makes me "sleep eat". Seriously, I've gotten out of bed, half asleep and ate. In the morning I see the "proof" in my office garbage can and go back and log it. Luckily it's only happened like twice.
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For sure! I did that tonight lol. It happens that I finish what I intend to eat and someone brings out a bit of chocolate or some nuts at night, and I don't say no because I like those things! Or I get hungry and feel like I need to eat more in order to sleep comfortably. It's no big deal, but sometimes I then go over my calories and I need to delete the "and was under her calorie goal!" announcement because it's false. Also happened tonight, lol. But for a small bit of dark chocolate after a long day, I'm okay with it.0
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I don't hit the button a all....I hate it, it lies to me. I don't lose as fast as MFP thinks I will...or it yells at me if I eat too little... :-)0
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I hardly ever hit that button, but yeah, I've done that. It doesn't count if I don't log it, right?0
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rnohou2010 wrote: »How many of you have hit the "Complete Entry" button on your app at the end of the day and then continued to eat? I will be the first to admit I have done it on a number of occasions. I am only deceiving myself and hurting myself. Perhaps I should not hit the button until I am in bed with my teeth brushed!
Yeah sure ... I do this about once a week. And I log whatever it was I added after I hit "Complete Entry", and it updates the calories consumes, and it gives me a new "If every day were like today, you'd be ..." message.
Sometimes it's because I forgot I had the second kiwi fruit at work, sometimes it's because I was going to have 200 grams of yogurt and completed my entry right after dinner, but decided to go for 250 grams later in the evening instead.
Whatever, it's no big deal. I'm still within my calorie goal for the day.
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I quit eating early enough that this doesn't happen. I know I am 'done' for the day. If a weird late night snack crops up (glass of milk after picking up one of the kids late; long drive back from Sunday dinner @ the in laws & I want a glass of wine to unwind...) I log it under the next days calories. Maybe you should do that. It's a bummer to wake up to calorie debt! That might help you stop!
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I don't hit that button much but....I do eat things I don't track sometimes. My tracking is not perfect all the time. It is okay.
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I have done this too.
But if I eat more, I will hit it again so it re-calibrates & tells me a new estimated weight and posts whether I went over my calories or stayed under still.
When I wasn't legit about my calories and wasn't too serious I wasn't always honest on here and would eat after, or not even hit the button.
But that got me nowhere lol.
Only lying to myself.
Now I log everything I eat, even if it happens to be after I hit that button.0 -
rnohou2010 wrote: »How many of you have hit the "Complete Entry" button on your app at the end of the day and then continued to eat? I will be the first to admit I have done it on a number of occasions. I am only deceiving myself and hurting myself. Perhaps I should not hit the button until I am in bed with my teeth brushed!
Tell me you didn't.........
Seriously, I have, then I add the food I've eaten and hit complete entry again.0 -
rnohou2010 wrote: »How many of you have hit the "Complete Entry" button on your app at the end of the day and then continued to eat? I will be the first to admit I have done it on a number of occasions. I am only deceiving myself and hurting myself. Perhaps I should not hit the button until I am in bed with my teeth brushed!
Tell me you didn't.........
Seriously, I have, then I add the food I've eaten and hit complete entry again.
I think the bigger question is: Will you EVER move that red ball?!?
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rnohou2010 wrote: »How many of you have hit the "Complete Entry" button on your app at the end of the day and then continued to eat? I will be the first to admit I have done it on a number of occasions. I am only deceiving myself and hurting myself. Perhaps I should not hit the button until I am in bed with my teeth brushed!
No, I have never done what you are talking about - I log everything. What you are talking about, basically, is that you aren't logging some of your food. You are right, the only one who cares, the only one it hurts, is yourself. MFP doesn't care, your friends don't care - your body cares. I can understand not wanting to mess up your progress online, or not wanting to show your MFP friends that you are going over your calorie limit - it can be embarrassing for others to see that, but lying about it (by omission) won't fool your body, and that's all that really matters. If you're going to go over your limit, accept that you're human and that everybody occasionally does it, then log it and start the next day afresh.
It's funny the mind games we play with ourselves when trying to lose weight.
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Only if I burned over 1,000 calories that day...I eat snacks at night, but high protein, low sugar. I will sometimes have peanut butter toast on 45 calorie bread, but not after 10 PM. I stay up pretty late.0
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I thought when you hit the button, it calculates how much you'll weigh in five weeks. If you est more, that calculation would be wrong. I also thought you had to hit the button so it will count the day in that update "Jessica has logged in 111 days in a row" So I don't have to hit the "complete the day" button, and my day will still be counted?0
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Losinandmovin wrote: »I thought when you hit the button, it calculates how much you'll weigh in five weeks. If you est more, that calculation would be wrong. I also thought you had to hit the button so it will count the day in that update "Jessica has logged in 111 days in a row" So I don't have to hit the "complete the day" button, and my day will still be counted?
It calculates how much you could weigh in 5 weeks if every day were like that particular day ... so ... just a rough estimate. But I do find it motivational.
If you add food after you "complete entry", it automatically updates the message.
And to keep your streak going, all you have to do is log in. You don't even have to enter anything. If you log in and go to your home page, you can watch the number slowly turn over from 111 to 112. Or maybe my computer is just that slow.
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_Terrapin_ wrote: »rnohou2010 wrote: »How many of you have hit the "Complete Entry" button on your app at the end of the day and then continued to eat? I will be the first to admit I have done it on a number of occasions. I am only deceiving myself and hurting myself. Perhaps I should not hit the button until I am in bed with my teeth brushed!
Tell me you didn't.........
Seriously, I have, then I add the food I've eaten and hit complete entry again.
I think the bigger question is: Will you EVER move that red ball?!?
Oh my goodness, you would be surprised!! I DID move the red ball, the man snapped pictures, but those darned pictures somehow got lost.......0
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