why don't you log?

I log everything and have for years. I’m also a private person and don’t feel the need to share what I eat. I also never feel bad or embarrassed about eating anything.

Also the default is to have the diary hidden so it probably doesn’t occur to many to open it up.

I have to confess that I like looking at other people's diaries if they're open, mainly because I look for things that look like they might be yummy and have not thought of eating.

I log as accurately as I can. I'm not embarrassed when I overeat, I mean, what the heck, I'm human. I don't care if someone reads my food diary. I don't care how people judge me. Today I went 45 calories over my goal. That is partly because I indulged in 2 glasses of wine. Be judgmental if you must, but it was delicious!

I'm not a numbers gal. I once took a class in college called "The History of Math" rather than the Algebra offered at 8:30 a.m., which was too early to look at numbers. But I figure if I don't log, I'm lying to myself and I appreciate the chance to see what calories are going into my mouth. I also weigh myself every day because I'm a masochist (or I like seeing progress, you decide.)

I log to the meticulous gram. I do not keep an open/sharable diary because the idea of someone else viewing my diary and judging me on it is incredibly triggering for me.

And frankly, what I eat is none of anyone's business.

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My diary, my food, my choices, my business. As others have said nobody should care what somebody eats or how many calories they eat per meal or per day, including me. I do know that people judge (we are all humans after all), so I try to avoid that as much as possible. Private profile and diary.

My diary is a mess that only makes sense to me. It would be useless to others. Sometimes I cook a multi serving something and log it all in one day. I have entries in multiple languages. I have many quick adds. I can log things to a meal that are actually snacks so things look like odd combinations. I log my cups of coffee as 1 gram of sugar each sometimes, so you would see random grams of sugar scattered around. I log salads that I didn't personally make as one kind of vegetable, so you would see random large quantities of vegetables without context. I sometimes carry a calorie bank in my diary so I use negative calorie entries. So on and so forth.

My diary is just too much of a mess to be useful to anyone but me. You'd think I have an eating disorder when I sometimes log 5000 calories one day (when I log a full batch of meals) and under 1000 for the next few days. I use an excel sheet to average my calories, so how true I am on my diary to the actual calories I'm eating on any particular day is not very important.

Funny how you don't long sometimes because you don't like numbers and I'm very sloppy because I really like numbers and keep a tally of them in my own not very neat way.

ETA and P.S: if you ask not be wood, some people will hit the woo button just because you mentioned it. Don't take it to heart. I personally think your post is not woo worthy.