Complicated Diary Entries

fatboyslimRP50
fatboyslimRP50 Posts: 25 Member
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Ok so get the basics, try and find green ticked entries closest to the facts, look out for branded stuff etc. but party last night with mixtures of things from buffet plus a piece of birthday cake! Didn't eat very much but had no idea how to log. 4x Becks blue - boring as f... had to leave early once everyone started talking sh..e, I mean, that's normally me talking sh..e at that time of night - struggling with dry January 2016 and another big test next week too.. any tips welcome (hiding not an option)

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  • RuNaRoUnDaFiEld
    RuNaRoUnDaFiEld Posts: 5,864 Member
    Log it as best you can and move on. Today is a new day!
  • rnstarr
    rnstarr Posts: 15 Member
    Don't get too hung up on it. When at parties, eat what you can. If it is a carry in party, take what you can eat, there will be plenty of other stuff for others. If you can't log it all because you don't know ingredients, do the best you can. For example, meatballs. I search meatballs and chose one with the medium number of calories so I'm in the ballpark. Good Luck!
  • snickerscharlie
    snickerscharlie Posts: 8,578 Member
    RuNaRoUnDaFiEld wrote: »
    Log it as best you can and move on. Today is a new day!
    This. If you major in the minors you'll drive yourself nuts. ;)

    As long as this isn't an every day occurrence, you'll be fine. :)
  • crb426
    crb426 Posts: 661 Member
    Usually I log the food items I remember, then add a few hundred "quick add" calories to make up for what I probably missed. Get back to the deficit today and moving forward and try not to feel too bad about it.
  • larali1980
    larali1980 Posts: 162 Member
    Good for you for abstaining. I gave up alcohol at the end of 2015 also, and am not looking back. (For me it causes more problems than just the calories.) As far as logging, I suck at that, so I'm no help. I would log as misc calories myself.
  • snickerscharlie
    snickerscharlie Posts: 8,578 Member
    An aside: It's interesting how obnoxious some drinkers are when you view them through the sober looking glass, isn't it? ;)

  • fatboyslimRP50
    fatboyslimRP50 Posts: 25 Member
    Cheers folks, yes and will do etc
  • Sued0nim
    Sued0nim Posts: 17,456 Member
    Green ticked is not necessarily right
  • Flab2Fab27
    Flab2Fab27 Posts: 461 Member
    rabbitjb wrote: »
    Green ticked is not necessarily right
    What does it mean?
  • Hearts_2015
    Hearts_2015 Posts: 12,031 Member
    edited January 2016
    rabbitjb wrote: »
    Green ticked is not necessarily right

    ha I stay away from the verified foods... too many errors when I've logged.
    Flab2Fab27 wrote: »
    rabbitjb wrote: »
    Green ticked is not necessarily right
    What does it mean?
    MFP did some changes and decided to added green check marked they call 'verified foods' meaning 'someone (MFP staff) checked these items, they are correct'. The problem/frustration for us members is they are NOT always correct so since they are not able to be altered by us some find it best to avoid them and simply add the nutrients from the pkg. or find one closest in the data base to what we're looking for. It was a nice concept on the verified but without it being correct it's a mess. :s

    A bit maddening...but it is what it is at the moment. Just try and find something close and log and move on. :)

    @Flab2Fab27

  • Sued0nim
    Sued0nim Posts: 17,456 Member
    Nobody checks them it's some kind of automatic algorithm

    There's entries like a plate of Chinese food that has a verified calorie count

    And solid foods with calories per ml

    I wouldn't trust any entry on MFP without double checking against other databases tbh
  • flaminica
    flaminica Posts: 304 Member
    Sometimes a buffet will defy the skill of the best logger. For those times bless the twisted heart of whoever created this entry. It defaults to 2501 calories but you can always log half a trough. o:)

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  • TheChrissyT
    TheChrissyT Posts: 263 Member
    AH that trough cracked me up!!
  • firead
    firead Posts: 56 Member
    I just log as best I can for buffets, parties, etc. I err on the large size when estimating portions, but I tend to gain a little after eating at them (especially since on weekends my husband likes to go out to eat 2 days in a row), so maybe I'm not over-estimating. :(

    If it's a situation where it won't be totally rude or weird (ie, around my family who is already used to me being strange), I will snap a pic of my plate with my phone, to help me log it later.

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