My main "mistakes" when I'm not monitoring with MFP...

I graze more when I'm cooking dinner when I'm not being strict with my logging. I can easily eat several hundred calories of randomness while I'm cooking.

I'm also terrible at estimating macros, so I don't eat enough protein if I'm not logging.

I log everything. But sometimes I don't feel like weighing. My thing is nut butter - a tablespoon creeps up if I'm not careful. I have a trick, though, I figured out that if I use a teaspoon to get it out of the jar, I actually end up with a tablespoon by weight. Not sure whose brilliant idea it was to make the USDA "official" serving of two tablespoons by weight have the volume of two teaspoons.

Thinking its ok to have a blow out day cause it just one day except that its the 4th blow out day for the week.

If not logging - forgetting I already had a snack earlier in the day and eating another then remembering I just put myself over maintenance... Or keeping a loose mental log of what I ate but forgetting the drink that I had with dinner

When I'm on vacation in a hotel I basically rely on "only meat/fish and vegetables, and fruit instead of cake/ice cream for dessert" and trying to visually estimate portions - but I'm sure my guesses are wildly off a lot of the time, if nothing else because 1) plate sizes being different than at home and 2) never knowing how much oil was used to cook stuff

Also, it's very easy for me to "guess" wrong with nuts and salty snacks... with chocolate you know that 1 piece = 1/5 of a bar so you have at least some idea of how much you're eating, but taking a handful out of a bag of salted nuts? Or just spreading some peanut butter or nutella on your toast with a butter knife? No way of knowing

My biggest error is overestimating or rounding up because of ‘just in case’. It leaves me eating too little and getting super cranky, so I really have to watch my brain when it starts telling me to add an extra 100 bonus calories to a meal.

Also drinking calories away. There’s about 100 calories (probably 80 actually but there I go rounding up again) in a Dolce Gusto latte pod, but they’re so good and I’ll have 5 a day if I’m not strict.

JaydedMiss wrote: »

when i dont track i tend to either count it as a *kitten* it i dunno what i ate anyway mise will eat everything day, or severely undereat xD

Oh I have this too. It happens usually when I eat out, if I have to guess at calories I’m thinking that this one meal could have easily 1,000 calories.. so with that and my breakfast.. no more food today! Heh.

JaydedMiss wrote: »

SteamPug wrote: »

JaydedMiss wrote: »

when i dont track i tend to either count it as a *kitten* it i dunno what i ate anyway mise will eat everything day, or severely undereat xD

Oh I have this too. It happens usually when I eat out, if I have to guess at calories I’m thinking that this one meal could have easily 1,000 calories.. so with that and my breakfast.. no more food today! Heh.

my brain tends to go " i over tracked to be safe, i can eat a peanutbutter cup...or 5..."

There are some things you just have to make exceptions for: peanut butter cups are one of these.

temazur wrote: »

Portion control goes out the window for me when I stop using MFP. When I'm logging I'm way more aware of what I'm eating AND how much. Oh, I'll eat that cookie and log it, but if I'm not logging then one cookie turns into 2+.

Thats the same for me if I don't log I find I starting put more on my plate and of course I will eat it all. I also find I will slip back into old habits like a choc biscuit after dinner or bread with everything I have not been able to lose weight in about 3 weeks now but I do have thyroid issues so I am also thinking I may need to see the doc again.

drinking.