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Do you count calories every day?
armydreamers
Posts: 175 Member
Do you count calories every day and make sure to stay at your goal each day? Or do you give yourself a day off where you don't worry about calories?
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I try to track everything but sometimes I guesstimate if I eat out. I find if I track consistently I'm less likely to mindlessly snack or overeat.0
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Every single day, and if I go over I try to keep to my weekly total.0
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Everyday0
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I do, even days I know I'll go over. It's fun to see what I had.0
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Everyday. I follow a weekly goal so if I'm over one day then I can balance it out on others.
When I was losing, I only had a 250 cal deficit so if I had a day without tracking then I could have easily blew my weekly deficit.
ETA: it's such a habit now that I spend a total of maybe 5 minutes a day weighing and logging. I don't give it much thought anymore.0 -
its stressful for some. I find it to be fun waking up every day with the challenge of eating what I want and making it fit. So I log every day.0
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Always. Even with 6 months without internet or smartphone access, I kept a food journal and preplanned meals to keep a balanced intake. Even when I have a celebratory feast (holidays, etc, 3,000-5,000cal days), I log/journal my intake.
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Everyday, with the exception of a few holidays that are too hard to track (like Thanksgiving and Christmas for example). Otherwise, everyday.0
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every day. the only times i dont are my birthday and (major) holidays.
oky - and vacations. but even then i loosely log, so i have a very rough idea. but i dont worry about what or how much i eat.0 -
I track everyday, except for holidays. I still try not to eat every thing in sight though when I dont.0
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Every day, because I like to save up calories for my drinking weekend.0
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I did not log on Christmas Day, and I made up a number for New Year's Eve (I logged the day, but took a wild guess for the evening).
Otherwise, I log every day. Even the 3000 cal days. It allows me to look back over the data to see if there are any trends in hunger, overeating, and over-restricting. It is amazing what I have learned about myself since I began logging.0 -
Every day, good or bad. I won't act like the bad days didn't happen, I still want to see what went wrong.0
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Every single day, and if I go over I try to keep to my weekly total.
This exactly.pbprincess wrote: »Every day, good or bad. I won't act like the bad days didn't happen, I still want to see what went wrong.
Yes, yes, yes!0 -
Every. Single. Day. Since April 13th. Every morsel, every sip.0
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Yes0
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I track every day, even if I go over. Habitual. The only time I don't, is when I'm backpacking, but I've usually budgeted/planned calories for each day for fuel anyways.0
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20yearsyounger wrote: »its stressful for some. I find it to be fun waking up every day with the challenge of eating what I want and making it fit. So I log every day.
Exactly how I think of it.
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All day, every day.0
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Every day except special occasions where it's tough to track. Sometimes these are just guesstimates (like hotel room service).0
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