How honest are you with MFP food tracking?

Elvirka_xoxo
Elvirka_xoxo Posts: 58 Member
edited November 29 in Food and Nutrition
I realized something. If I eat something bad, I try to hide it by not inputting the information to MFP. But who am I kidding, calories from that chocolate cake is not gonna disappear just because I didn't track it.

So I'm curious. How many people on here do the same thing or put their best days without being honest with themselves and being in a state of denial? I know I do that. Although I did just put down Boston Creme Donut into my Meal#2 so here goes all of my sugar for the day!
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  • 20likenow
    20likenow Posts: 40 Member
    I log everything to the best of my ability. The other day I had two French fries and I logged them lol.
  • Asher_Ethan
    Asher_Ethan Posts: 2,430 Member
    I log every single thing I consume. Even if it's a bite of my kids mac and cheese. I log it.
  • seska422
    seska422 Posts: 3,217 Member
    My food log is my data that I use to track how I'm doing. I need the data to be as complete and accurate as possible.

    If it passes my lips and has calories, it gets logged.
  • Sued0nim
    Sued0nim Posts: 17,456 Member
    Never missed logging anything ...I will even go back to previous days if for some very odd reason I didn't get a chance to log on the day

    That is why I believe my weight goals have been consistent
  • Sued0nim
    Sued0nim Posts: 17,456 Member
    The thing is your body doesn't care if you log it or not,

    MFP doesn't care if you log it or not

    it is only yourself and your goals you cheat
  • callsitlikeiseeit
    callsitlikeiseeit Posts: 8,626 Member
    rabbitjb wrote: »
    The thing is your body doesn't care if you log it or not,

    MFP doesn't care if you log it or not

    it is only yourself and your goals you cheat

    thats just it. you can not log it, it doesn't make difference. your BODY knows.
  • a_little_less_lauren
    a_little_less_lauren Posts: 15 Member
    I'm honest. I can pretend all I want, though, it won't fool the scale
  • Fitwarrior7_Round_2
    Fitwarrior7_Round_2 Posts: 453 Member
    I used to cheat and not log bad foods on the weekend. But like with golf your really only cheating yourself by not being honest. So now I just log everything.
  • ShellyBell999
    ShellyBell999 Posts: 1,482 Member
    If I log, I log it all.

    That way I can clearly see where my problem lies when I'm not getting the results I expect.
  • cbro70
    cbro70 Posts: 224 Member
    How true, I am the same way. I log everything because I do not want to lie to myself
  • sweetestlove1
    sweetestlove1 Posts: 38 Member
    I'm honest and that's why my MFP food tracker is private! ;)
  • Thinvy
    Thinvy Posts: 1 Member
    Honestly, I'm really hard on myself when i AM on here. like I add more than what i really ate more often than not to discourage further eating.
  • SoDamnHungry
    SoDamnHungry Posts: 6,998 Member
    Sometimes I don't log ketchup and mustard because I'm lazy. But otherwise there's no point in lying to myself.
  • 100df
    100df Posts: 668 Member
    I log the good, the bad and the ugly. My diary is set to private so have zero excuses for not being honest with myself.
  • Elvirka_xoxo
    Elvirka_xoxo Posts: 58 Member
    ShellyBell999 wrote: »
    If I log, I log it all.

    That way I can clearly see where my problem lies when I'm not getting the results I expect.

    I'm starting to realize that I should be focusing on it, Thanks for the tip!
  • RuNaRoUnDaFiEld
    RuNaRoUnDaFiEld Posts: 5,864 Member
    I even log my salt and zero calorie drinks. 4 weeks a year I don't log, 2 at Christmas and 2 in the summer. I eat/drink what I like and deal with the 8lbsish when I get back to logging.
  • Elvirka_xoxo
    Elvirka_xoxo Posts: 58 Member
    RuNaRoUnDaFiEld wrote: »
    I even log my salt and zero calorie drinks. 4 weeks a year I don't log, 2 at Christmas and 2 in the summer. I eat/drink what I like and deal with the 8lbsish when I get back to logging.

    Good idea to log the salt, I usually forget all of the ingridients
  • tzkully
    tzkully Posts: 77 Member
    That's why we log it... To see where we can improve in what we eat. Why hide it, your not fooling anyone but yourself.
  • finneyjason218
    finneyjason218 Posts: 166 Member
    I always over estimate how many calories I have consumed. If I'm at a restaurant and the item isn't on mfp I take how many calories I think it is, find a similar item and put in enough servings of that item to equal 1.5x how many calories I estimated. But as often as possible I eat at home so I know exactly how much I am eating.
  • Elvirka_xoxo
    Elvirka_xoxo Posts: 58 Member
    finneyjason218 wrote: »
    I always over estimate how many calories I have consumed. If I'm at a restaurant and the item isn't on mfp I take how many calories I think it is, find a similar item and put in enough servings of that item to equal 1.5x how many calories I estimated. But as often as possible I eat at home so I know exactly how much I am eating.

    Good rule to have!
  • Elvirka_xoxo
    Elvirka_xoxo Posts: 58 Member
    20likenow wrote: »
    I log everything to the best of my ability. The other day I had two French fries and I logged them lol.

    Thank you for being the most honest person on here ;)
  • TaraTall
    TaraTall Posts: 339 Member
    Agreed. When I started, I wasn't that honest but now I have improved tremendously. And, noticed a difference.
  • Aetheldreda
    Aetheldreda Posts: 241 Member
    I log with honesty and as accurately as I can, with the exception of the week between Christmas and New Year. I am only fooling myself otherwise.
  • obriendp762
    obriendp762 Posts: 9 Member
    At this point, where I am actively working to loose significant weight, I log everything but water or no calorie drinks. I need to be honest if this is going to work. I also overestimate if I am unsure that the item in the food dictionary is correct. I also prefer to cook and eat at home. My weakness is cocktails and wine, which are woefully under represented in the dictionary, so I pick the closest thing and increase the servings.
  • kgirlhart
    kgirlhart Posts: 5,188 Member
    I am as honest as I possibly can be. If I eat out at a mom and pop restaurant I usually look up several similar choices and then log it as the highest one. I did just guess during Thanksgiving and Christmas because I didn't want to take my food scale and weigh my food when I was at someone else's house, but I try to overestimate if I'm not sure. But I log everything I eat even if it is one single saltine cracker.
  • Francl27
    Francl27 Posts: 26,371 Member
    The only person you're cheating by not logging everything is yourself.

    If you're worried about what other people think, just close your diary.
  • itsmemaringle
    itsmemaringle Posts: 69 Member
    I log everything! My diary is open to friends. I'm tracking because I want to lose weight and tracking takes the guessing out of the equation.... For me Stop tracking = Stop losing and really may as well not bother at all.
  • darkchocthunda
    darkchocthunda Posts: 20 Member
    itsmemaringle wrote: »
    I log everything! My diary is open to friends. I'm tracking because I want to lose weight and tracking takes the guessing out of the equation.... For me Stop tracking = Stop losing and really may as well not bother at all.

    This, there's no point in doing this if you're not accurate. You won't lose the weight either.
  • CooCooPuff
    CooCooPuff Posts: 4,374 Member
    I'm not super accurate with logging diet sodas or vitamin waters. Otherwise, I try to be very accurate.

    I don't care if someone doesn't like the amount of sodium or sugar I've eaten this week. I weigh less than I did in high school; I am the only person in my immediate family not at risk for diabetes; and have improved from my days of secret eating and binging that caused me to balloon to my heaviest in my early twenties, and from the period of undereating that caused me to lose my period and shed a lot of hair only a few years later.
  • jessetfan
    jessetfan Posts: 373 Member
    I try to be very accurate because I really want to lose weight. I don't eat the healthiest diet on here, but I keep my calories in check, and I've lost 30 pounds. My diary is for me, not for everyone else, so if someone wants to judge me for it, that says a lot more about them than it does about me. If I don't log it that doesn't mean I didn't eat it, it just means I'm not likely to remember it when I wonder why I didn't lose.
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