Do you guys really count calories?

I count everything at home and make estimates when away. It's not really necessary -- before I discovered this site I lost 15 pounds by mindful eating and portion control. I do it because I am geeky and enjoy the counting.

Its hard counting calories at restaurants, but mfp has most of places I go. Also, thinking about getting scale for home

I log nearly everything but I don't usually weigh anything. I know that's not considered the correct way to do things, but it's working for me so far. I suppose part of it is just skepticism on my part. I know the exercise machines are not accurate, I know the weight lifting calories are not accurate, so it seems a bit silly to obsess over whether I ate 1 oz of peanuts or 1.1 oz.

I said "nearly everything" because I will sometimes forget to log a drink or dessert at night simply because I knew I had X calories left and that the treat is less than X. I can tell when I've done that because the charts will show a dip in total calories that day. I don't lose much sleep over that because I know I'm under my calories for the day.

So far, 44 lbs in 5 months....about 27 lbs to my minimum goal.

Like others have mentioned, I intend to continue tracking calories when I get to my final goal weight. I've been a yoyo most of my life, usually because I reach my goal and stop doing the things that got me there. This time I intend to make tracking calories a lifelong strategy (until they finally invent a real miracle drug! ).

Generally weigh and count everything I eat.. It's the only way to know you are getting what you need.

Yep, I do. Except when I don't, lol.

I had no reliable internet and computer access for 6 months, and didn't use MFP. I was in maintenance, but my self regulation and eyeballing of portions is broken, and I gained 10lbs.

Oh well. I'm back to weighing everything at home, best guesses at restaurants. And I will continue to do so for the foreseeable future. I will reevaluate when I get to goal, perhaps setting a lower weight ceiling (5lb range vs. a 10lb range) at which weight loss action needs to be taken.

I do count my calories very carefully

I don't weigh or measure things much now because I have gotten very good at estimating. I know my dishes and have a good sense of what food is how much.

But yeah, I log every single thing that goes into my mouth. And have, for four years.

Yes, I count calories. I have a food scale, and measuring cups that I use for most things I prepare at home. It's true, eating out at places without nutritional information gets tough, but you'll find that after spending some time doing very precise measurement, your mental "guesstimator" gets more accurate.

I weight calorie dense things, some things I guesstimate based on size (medium apple) but I also try to over log things I'm unsure of and try to keep a little calorie buffer to account for my logging inaccuracies. My loved ones already think I'm a little obsessed because I enjoy talking about calories and nutrition so I have to be careful not to talk about it too much

I don't count - fitnesspal doing this but I care about