When do y’all log ur meals?

I log mine right after each meal, but sometimes I forget to log right away so I end up doing it late an hour or two.

I try to log as I consume but will enter later if that wasn't possible

At the moment I’m focusing on being more prepared (last minute decisions and being tired/stressed was leading to poor choices) so I’m logging either start of day or the day before. I’ve got a long way to go so want to make sure I’m planning well

I log when I prepare. So when I cook dinner I'll have MFP open on my phone so I can enter all the weights as I go. Work lunches I prepare the night before so I log them then. If I don't log it straight away I forget what each ingredient weighed

I'm of a different mindset. I log my entire day, if I can. I have 25+ pages of recipes, so it's not hard to log dinner since it doesn't go in item by item. I don't eat breakfast, and lunch is usually pretty similar, or leftovers of a dinner. I put in my "must eats" of the day: the things that give me the nutrition I need, but I also like to see how much change is still in the bank and how I want to use it: sweets after lunch? happy hour cocktail? munch after dinner with a show? Sometimes I put them ALL in to see what life used to be like (reality check). I find more often than not, that when the time comes, I don't want one of them, or I replace them with something that's a better nutritional choice (maybe I'm hungry between lunch and dinner). It also encourages me to get up and move. Even having 150 "extra" calories to play with can make a difference.

I generally log mine as I am cooking, or as I am planning my order if I am eating out/takeout/etc. I like to know what a meal looks like in numbers before I eat it so I can make adjustments and plan the rest of the day accordingly.

I always log the night before, if not earlier. Sometimes I'll log several days in advance. If the day of, I find myself really craving something different, I change my log BEFORE I eat, to make sure I can fit it into my day and/or plan whatever other changes I need to make it work. I'm surprised so many people eat and then log. That would never work for me.

I log my food in advance as much as possible, and I keep a notepad and pen in the kitchen right next to my scale so I can write down what goes into the food that I cook. I'll write out the list of ingredients as I get my mise-en-place together, weighing out raw meat, dry rice/grains/pasta, and peeled/chopped vegetables. Pre-logging breakfast and lunch for the week is easy because I prep that on the weekends. I figure servings usually based on how many grams of the finished dish I end up with, entering the recipe as "[food] per gram/per 10g/per 100g" depending on what makes sense for what I've made. If it's something that makes an obvious and discrete number of servings, I do my best to make sure they're all approximately the same size and use that. For example, I prepped Salisbury steak for lunch the other week, 8 meals with 2 patties each, so I entered that recipe on here as 16 servings. I did weigh my meat mixture and do the long division to figure how big each patty needed to be to yield 16 identical patties.

For restaurant food or food I didn't make myself, I guesstimate using entries for chain restaurants and industrial foodservice (Sodexo, Aramark, etc), and log as I eat as best I can. This is the only upside to my inlaws' cooking: everything either comes out of a box or is boiled, baked, or steamed as-is, and if any fat, sugar, sauce, seasoning, etc is to be added to anything they serve, I'll be doing it myself at the table. Otherwise, if I'm served a pork chop, the USDA entry for A Pork Chop is going to be reasonably accurate. I'm not whipping the scale out at family dinner or anything, I just know that 3oz of meat is about the size of a deck of playing cards and extrapolate and estimate from there.

swimmchick87 wrote: »

I always log the night before, if not earlier. Sometimes I'll log several days in advance. If the day of, I find myself really craving something different, I change my log BEFORE I eat, to make sure I can fit it into my day and/or plan whatever other changes I need to make it work. I'm surprised so many people eat and then log. That would never work for me.

This is exactly how I do it as well 😊

Generally as Im eating it, or right after. Of course, sometimes when I'm busy I have to sit down in the evening and fill things in.
I have even prelogged when I know what exactly my meals will be (usually lunch leftovers etc.).

When I logged, I usually logged my breakfast, lunch, and snacks for the day since I brown bagged those things and took them to work. If I knew what I was having for dinner, I usually logged that as well...most of the time, my whole day was logged before I was done eating breakfast. Sometimes I had to make changes along the way, but my preference was to have a plan and know where I stood throughout the day calorie wise.

I log my day when I prepare my breakfast. I spend 7-10 hours in my car for work so I pack a lunch to take with me. Might as well log my dinner then too.

Evening meals a week in advance (it helps with grocery shopping, which I do once per week), breakfast, lunch and snacks usually the night before, to make sure I'm hitting my calorie target and macros as best I can.

On good days I log my intended meals early, then adjust them where needed. Some times I will do days in advance.

On bad days I will log them late, after iv finished eating.


On really really bad days I just log 4000 quick calories... but they don't happen very often.

Always when I’m either preparing something or just eaten / drank something or else I’d forget