Do you plan on counting calories for the rest of your life?

Probably most of it. I assume there will come a time when I'll be able to keep a running tally...I don't see me stopping for another good 5 years though.

ETA: Hopefully 5 years is not "most of my life" lol. Not with it today.

Yes. I've gone up and down my entire life and this is the first time that weight loss/maintaining has really "made sense" to me. Keeping at the strategy that brought me success seems like a good idea.

But does it make sense for you? I think only you can answer that. Have you considered taking a break and seeing how it works out?

I have taken short logging breaks, and I have maintained. I think it would get easier to be sloppy the longer the break and I am never as good at sustaining a period of continued loss without logging. If I ever get to goal, I may be better at it by then with a few years of practice under my belt. At the rate I am losing and expecting that to slow down as I approach goal, I won't have to make that decision for another year.

No--right now I plan to monitor my weight and portion sizes/overall diet and probably count calories/log off and on.

I've been maintaining while logging only off and on over the past few months, but intend to count again to lose weight (and maybe to help keep me on plan over the holidays).

It helps me to focus on things besides calories when I am logging, as that keeps it interesting--I am currently logging on cron-o-meter which is really good for tracking nutrients, so I'm focusing more on adding stuff to my diet, not calories. I'm about to start a marathon training program, and in the early stages of that I will try to drop a few more pounds, I think, but also play around with adding more carbs to see if it helps my runs. Before this I focused on getting protein up without using protein supplements and counting servings of vegetables, and stuff like that, as well as calories. I know some people find that makes it too complicated, especially at first, but for me it makes it fun and gives me an incentive to eat in a way that also keeps calories down (and lets me eat whatever I want, too).

I counted calories while maintaining for the first six months. My maintenance range at 5'7 is 130.8 to 132.8 which is pretty narrow range for most people. In the 8th month my weight jumped up to 134.8 due to bad eating. Since then I've cut out the jars of Nutella with a spoon, been more aware, and used my food scale for a few days to remind me my serving sizes an a few things, and after 3 weeks am back within that maintenance range.

So I will continue to monitor my weight, and if and when I need to, I will start logging again.

I'll probably end up doing what I've been doing while maintaining, which is weigh myself every few days without logging. If the scale goes up a little and stays there, I start counting everything again for a while.

(Right now, though, I'm actually trying to put on some muscle, so I'm trying to go over a little bit with lots of protein. So I do need logging for that, definitely.)

No. I lost most of my weight without counting at all. And for the past few months I sometimes counted and sometimes didn't (and usually didn't bother when eating out) and had no trouble maintaining the loss. But now I am new to keto, so am logging again.

I plan to do it only when I am making substantial changes to the diet and just long enough to get a good handle on what I've changed.

I used to say yes to this question, but lately I think probably not. The tool is there at my disposal should I need some course correction, but I feel I have a good handle on about how much I should eat in a day.

I do plan to monitor my weight closely, though.

Unfortunately, yes. Ive been weighing my food and recording everything for over 10 years now (almost two on mfp, before i got the app. I did it on paper) i would feel lost if i didnt

Probably. It's that or getting fat again.

Nope ..... never did. Paid attention to carbs instead.

I'm maintaining and plan to continue logging for at least sometime. I'd like to wait until I feel more confident in myself before I try not doing so.

Well, I don't plan to ever see 180 lbs again, so I'll probably always at least "watch" my calories...I have been weighing with the digital scale for a couple of months now, and I'm now finding that I can pretty much eyeball and get the grams almost spot on, so maybe that means that eventually I can stop weighing altogether, and stop adding in my brain...and as my hubby says "Just eat."

I wish I could say no, but I have a feeling it's something I'll have to do at least on and off forever.