When to log

For me it's best to plan out what I am eating and thus I pre-log my meals. Normally I work in my snacks during the day, since I don't always plan those out.

I really like pre-logging everything that I can, so that way I can see if I'm close to my macro goals and also if I can fit in a second helping at dinner or maybe even extra ice cream later

kommodevaran wrote: »

Prelogging and adjusting amounts and details as needed, worked great for me.

This is my way as well Pre-log is for me the way to go

I prefer to log as I go. But I have labeled 6 eating times, breakfast, morning snack, lunch, afternoon snack, dinner, & evening snack. I also include in the labels cals to eat/accumulated day cals/net cals left. by the time I get to evening snack my goal is eat 150 at that time/1,500 accumulated for day/and 0 left. What I like about this is that I can eat what I want and just control portions. Because I have a family, I can eat whatever they eat. I do measure it and log prior to eating it. It's a pain. But we don't plan all our daily meals so this keeps me with them instead of doing my own thing without them.

Pre-logging does not work for me. I don't work so don't have to pack a lunch, and rarely know exactly what I'll eat on any given day. I log as I prepare my dish or as I'm eating it.

I honestly sit down on Sunday and pre-plan my entire week. Then throughout the week I'll make small adjustments to amounts. Or maybe change my snack from yogurt to cottage cheese or change the flavor of the yogurt or something but that way I at least know I'm in my goal and it also takes away decision fatigue. I just look at what I logged and I eat that. I hate making decisions.

I prelog since that gives me an overview of how much wiggle room I have based on the meals I have during the day. I can't prelog lunch, since that's provided at work and we don't know what we're getting before we go to the buffet to eat.

I stay on track better during the week, when i pre-log my morning coffee and lunch. On the weekends I sleep in and then have coffee so I dont eat until much later and actually dont over eat that often on the weekend.

I like to pre-log at least one day in advance, as that gives me a better sense of how many calories I'll have available for snacks the following day or for one of the higher calorie dinners I've made, etc. Also, if I know I'll be eating out for dinner one day, I like to pre-log so that I can budget 1000 or more calories for dinner. When I do eat out though, I typically just write down what I ate in the Food notes section with a guess on portion size, and then log after the fact.

I mostly eat the same things everyday... just with the addition of a few things.. so I pre log everything so I know what I have left for the day

I prelog my food for the day in the morning before or during breakfast. It helps me stick to my goals better.

I prelog on workdays to make sure I pack the right amount of food. On weekends I just log as I go.

i preplan but i 100% never follow my plan lol. Calms me to have a plan but then i stubbornly refuse to follow it lol. I eat all the same meals though so pretty easy to still hit my macros and calories. My diets basically around 1000 calories of solid macro foods i eat daily and anything else i eat is earned through exercise food/ snacks

I'm most successful when I prelog things.